The ecstasy and agony of this week is underscored by the National Day of Mourning in Bangladesh.

Truth is, trade, economics are the new nuclear weapons, sooner we in South Asia understand that, the less painful.

Unspoken charge against Hina in Delhi was that at 34 years of age, she couldn’t possibly be anything but lightweight.

With a week between them, how different Pakistan foreign minister’s message is going to be from what Americans left.

News of the World (NOTW) tabloid, invaded people’s privacy and committed some of the gravest rights violations.

Manmohan Singh continues to be on top of the charts — but that he seemed unable to put things into first gear.

So much — and nothing at all — seems to have changed these past 39 years between Pakistan and India.

The Army must, somehow, be at the centre of any bilateral dialogue if anything substantive has to come out of it.

The Pakistani press is in the act of covering a rare and precious, yet fragile, moment in its nation’s history.

India is closely watching but there is a subtle change in Delhi’s reaction to the Pakistani-Chini bhai-bhai bonhomie.