In “Time to take on Pakist­an’s Jihadi­st spies,” Ijaz lifts the lid from an episod­e that must not be brushe­d aside.

As his options in his own country diminish, President Karzai seems to be inclined to gamble.

The resumed journey to a Palestinian state with pre-1967 borders can be delayed but not denied.

Abbas has come to the UN, because he has run out of options. He does not even have a Palestinian consensus behind him.

No apologies for devoting this column to George Perkovich’s essay “Stop enabling Pakistan’s dangerous dysfunction”.

My fear was General Musharraf would be blinded by desperate need to use the invasion to gain international legitimacy.

Washington creates an enormous fog of public diplomacy to keep everybody guessing its real intentions.

In Libya, the choice, as in Iraq in 2003, is between freedom and anarchy.

Pakistan does not have unifying, centralising agency of internal ‘multinationals’ to knit India to Union government

Even with their criminality, the rioters made a political statement that the government does not wish to recognise.