TTP carries a lot of blood on their hands and touches a raw nerve running through Pakistan’s body politic

Malakand/Swat can offer the world more, only if tourism is controlled, optimal and in sync with nature

The ‘benevolent empire’ is becoming history.

Taliban would do well to mobilise ANA’s existing cadre, integrate elements that remained compliant with their strategy

ANA had mixed — if not poor — reviews from US combat advisers and trainers on most important matrix of ‘will to fight'

US-EIA ties should not be ‘interest based’ but ‘morality and responsibility-based’

Taliban advance with lightning speed surprising many with their audacity, shrewdness and their application of force

Mighty and powerful were check-mated by the poor and the humble in a stunning contest that was never on equal footing

Recent archives are full of notions like Taliban barbarism and cruelty

Over thirty years of continuous war with generations growing up under unending violence