It’s by now commonly recognized that the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is a broken and useless organization, given its final death blow by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi late last month after he pressured many of his regional counterparts to boycott next month’s planned meeting in Pakistan. The group had long held…
India’s Gambit While sitting in Islamabad on September 30th, I received a call from a friend who said that the 19th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to be held in Islamabad from November 9th-10th, 2016 had been ‘cancelled’ because India has pulled out, and that such will be all over…
The squabble in the sub-continent between India and Pakistan is enlarging the shadow of war in South Asia as both nuclear neighbors are threatening each other with full scale war. Both countries have already fought three wars in just 69 years of their division since British rule. Western scheme to “divide and conquer” are still…
Balochistan, the restive province of southwestern Pakistan, is a microcosm of the country in which it resides, encapsulating all its triumphs and tribulations. The province is at once home to promising economic projects in the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and a hotbed of insurgency and militancy. On Monday, Balochistan’s provincial capital, Quetta, experienced its second large-scale…
Britain is fighting at least seven covert wars in the Middle East and North Africa, outside of any democratic oversight or control. Whitehall has in effect gone underground, with neither parliament nor the public being allowed to debate, scrutinise or even know about these wars. To cover themselves, Ministers are now often resorting to lying…
A suspected “spy” pigeon that reportedly flew from Pakistan to India has had its wings clipped by security forces to prevent the bird from returning to Pakistan. The grey pigeon was “arrested” on October 2 and taken into custody by Indian border guards after a letter written in Urdu, and addressed to the country’s Prime…
