The rebel and the government stand-off was further aggravated by the poisonous element of sectarianism.

The army intervention is more in the nature of an intervention of a referee when he holds the ball under his foot.

Following the Bihar model and the Nitish-style merit emulation can lead to a turnaround by PTI administration in K-P.

It's our misfortune to be located next to a blundering nuclear power that does not know what to do with its strength.

Unfortunately for us, India is a difficult neighbour, this is a predicament we share with all its smaller neighbours.

Murphy’s famous law that everything that can go wrong will go wrong, seems to apply to Pak-US relations at this stage.