The new AF-PAK Policy

Charter of democracy - A revolutionary document

Jinnah on responsibility of defence forces

A story of a prince and his powers
published first in The Frontier PostWe will only discuss Machiavelli’s prince today and his powers, for he is the only thing that is relevant now, the only character that makes sense, irrespective of all the chaos prevailing around him. As it was said, to understand the natur

A comprehensive strategy
What happened in Peshawar was not just another terrorist attack. It was a heinous and despicable act of brutality, devoid of even the lowest ebbs of humanity. The bomb exploded in a crowded market filled with innocent people – including a large number of children and women – and the catastrophic images soon followed. Let’s face it; our security agencies have failed us – not because they failed to prevent such a disaster – but because they have allowed the situation to deteriorate this far by pursuing arbitrary policies of expediency for a long time. We are harvesting only what we had sown.I had written in May 2009 in one of my articles, “To consider use of force an i

Testing times
First Published The Frontier PostSo it has come to this. The desperadoes will now not discriminate between the combatants and non-combatants. Well, the line between ‘infidels’ and ‘believers’ was always hazy and fluctuating, and