Entire American establishment believes Haqqani network exports terror to Afghan, needs to be crushed by Pakistan Army.

If the objective was to make Pakistani defence look vulnerable, it came remarkably close to doing just that.

Contractors represented 50 per cent of the Department of Defense workforce in Iraq and 59 per cent in Afghanistan.

Arabs are fighting among themselves over definitions of jihad and taghoot (satan).

The real test lies in a credible counternarrative that ensures equitable treatment of our Baloch countrymen.

Pakistan disputes this and says fixing Afghanistan requires Afghan ingredients, without foreign dictation.

Unless we stand up to obscurantist forces, the country will keep sinking in religiously-wrapped ignorance.

The mindless pursuit of a policy that centred on non-state actors has been fatal indeed.

From inside, Pakistan is a nation hostage to the bigotry of a few thousand civilian and military elite.