NEW DELHI: Most Indians will remember him as the architect of the Kargil war of 1999, and the subsequent bloodless coup in which he deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and ruled Pakistan for almost a decade after that. But there was a lot more to army chief-turned-president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, who died in exile at […]Read More

NEW DELHI: As Pakistan reels under multiple crises—political instability, economic turmoil, high inflation, uncertainty over an IMF bailout package, etc—Monday delivered an explosive blow. A suicide bomber blew himself in a mosque at the Police Lines in Peshawar, killing over 80 people (the toll continues to rise) and leaving many more critically injured. The Pakistani […]Read More

An olive branch from Pakistan, not the first one of its kind from the prime minister of that country with of course the usual caveats about Kashmir. In this conversation on The Gist, TCA Raghavan, former high commissioner to Pakistan (2013-15), draws on his experience and understanding of our western neighbour to explain the reasons […]Read More

On November 22, 2022, USS Nitze, a United States Navy guided-missile destroyer seized an estimated US $20 million worth illegal drugs from a fishing vessel, while patrolling in the Gulf of Aden (Red Sea). Details about the nationality of the intercepted vessel and its crew are publicly unavailable, but it is well known that the interception […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The captain is hurt and rightfully so. Beaten by his political rivals to the draw in the latest bout of brinkmanship, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has reiterated his call for snap polls. The immediate trigger is a political cat-and-mouse game. It began with Imran’s announcement that the provincial assemblies of Punjab and […]Read More
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