Pakistan's elite co-opt one another is certainly not to serve democracy, the country, or its people

Politics in Pakistan has never been smooth or tolerant, but with the escalating debate over creating new provinces

More judges and courtrooms matter, but delay is also produced by thousands of smaller frictions

Douglass North's institutional theory provides a useful explanation for this equilibrium

Analogy is useful because both universes are visible to everyone

Manmohan Singh-led UPA government was completing a decade in power

Most of the Chinese conversation revolved around the rule of law

All systems are sustained by mutual attraction; this truth is hidden in the life of the stars

India's placing of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in "abeyance" has no legal justification

India's deeply ingrained institutional hostility toward Pakistan blinds its military leadership to strategic realities