The TTP, for all its rhetoric about the Afghan jihad, is focused on Pakistan.

The Centre weds within it a state’s pluralism and its strategic realism. That Centre we do not have.

Christine Fair, long-time friend and generally a fair scholar, has fallen this time for misreporting.

Today we are Facebooking and texting and partying and inboxing without realising, in most cases, that we are verbing.

Why did Davis try to run away from the scene after displaying the calm ability to shoot a pistol?

What kind of resolve can the government show to yank Karachi back to normalcy?

Even without going into North Waziristan, which will have its own cost, this war is becoming expensive.

These contradictions are important to flag when dealing with the issue of blasphemy, emotions it generates.

This is our democracy without legal realism and we are condemned to it. “Injai!”

Musharraf is only partially right. It is difficult to implement the strategy of dislocation here.