For me, the story is a sorry tale of a state failing to address its principal contradiction, civil-military imbalance.

Contrary to Kepron's analysis, India has been pursuing greater outreach and second-strike capabilities.

My fear is that Khan's supporters expect too much and expectations have a horrible way of ignoring reality, go sour.

Conflicts end because of either a negative or positive incentive for both sides to end it. Taliban have no incentive.

No one, I repeat no one, has the right to abuse or prevent the airing of ideas.

Given Pakistan’s geographical location, she more than some others needs strategic depth for defence.

The inevitability of Taseer’s murder is argued by defence as "if Qadri had not killed him, someone else would...

Killing the fiction of strategic partnership with Pakistan and upping the ante, US has also lost leverage it had.

If Haqqani network was a stumbling block between bad Afghanistan and idyllic Afghanistan, it would not be a problem.

The USIP-JI report participants agreed that debate in Pakistan was contradictory and inconclusive.