Saudi Arabia is pivotal to the wider Islamic world and Pakistan in particular

In the long list of US/NATO failures, counter-narcotics and counterinsurgency strategies never complemented each other

We need to remember that status defines critical friendships and financial clout bestows status

Pakistan and Bangladesh need to realise that bilateral synergy can bring tremendous good to their people

In Pakistan, this ashhrafiyya monopolies political power through lineage

30,000 strong Afghan Local Police (ALP) militia units are singularly despised for brutality and abuses

Urbane Pakistan should stop fearing, dying daily and start living

Electing and eulogising people like Modi comes with a cost

Turkey had shown the path to Muslims, it can lead now

Corruption-tired common Afghans continue to flock towards the Taliban, viewed as “brutal but efficient and devout”