The women of Pakistan should assert a particular commitment to the struggle against intolerance and extremism.

A robust Pakistan-Iran relationship too would one day be seen as a factor of peace and prosperity.

The third trilateral summit brought Ahmadinejad, Karzai, Zardari together amidst a fragile strategic environment.

It is also about time that parliament rises to the challenge. It is a race against time but it can be won.

Khar has negotiated a realistic framework of bilateral cooperation that may supersede a long history of estrangement.

I hope Khar carried conviction in Kabul when she boldly tried to bury skeletons such as ‘strategic depth’.

The litmus test would be the writing of the constitution with which it would complete the process of democratisation.

The issue is no longer Pakistan pursuing ‘strategic depth’, its adjusting Pakistan to dialectics of Afghan situation.

Pakistan’s core crisis is not the scarcity of material resources but a deficit of capable leadership.

Some Western analysts argue that the United States is already at ‘war’ with Tehran.