In recent years, Indian officials and analysts have tried to make it unambiguously clear that, despite close cooperation with Washington, India will not play second fiddle to the United States in its geopolitical games. India, as it always has, eschews any talk of joining camps in the emerging great power competition. In the past, India’s … Read more
With elections coming up next month amid the messy blocking of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nomination, electoral politics in Pakistan remains embroiled in tense contestation. However, in the backdrop remains the ever persisting and foreboding shadow of the most important political player in the country, whose hands are methodically tampering with the various levers … Read more
Magazine “Pakistan is facing a polycrisis and it is the convergence of political, economic, social, and security crises that makes the current situation so volatile.” Supporters of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attend a welcoming rally for their leader in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Anjum Naveed Advertisement Pakistan is at … Read more
Advertisement Three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has left self-imposed exile and returned to Pakistan to launch his twilight vision for the country. However, the Pakistan he has returned to features a political landscape that has been scorched by the power struggle between the dynastic political parties – composed of Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and … Read more
Advertisement As Pakistan heads toward its next general elections, set for late January 2024, the political scene is heating up. One former prime minister – Imran Khan – is facing trial on charges of leaking state secrets this week, while another former PM – Nawaz Sharif – just stage a triumphant return home, having received … Read more
Advertisement I vividly remember the cold morning in Lahore when I was first asked to choose between reporting the truth and staying alive. “Is this reporting more important to you than your life? Make a choice now,” an unknown caller with “no caller ID” told me. Just hours before, I had published a news report … Read more
Advertisement Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is now in jail because he overlooked the single biggest lesson from the political history of the country: The house wins every time. For months, his arrest and sentencing were the writing on the wall, but he failed to heed the warning signs. It was not his first … Read more
Advertisement Last week, supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) went on a rampage, expressing great anger toward Pakistan’s powerful army. Between May 9 and 12, PTI workers in several Pakistani cities vandalized the houses of high-ranking senior army officers in military cantonment areas, set fire to key government and army installations, blocked roads, and damaged … Read more