Agent Provocateur

This audio recording, courtesy Al Jazeera, reminds us of Kargil, 26/11 and the perfidy of the Pakistani military-jihadi Establishment. Re...

Another voice is silenced with jihadi guns Pakistan’s Minister for Religious Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated on Wednesday, March ...

What awaits Afghanistan The August 9 issue of Time featured a cover story on the plight of women in those parts of Afghanistan where the Ta...

It matters little to the 70 countries whose representatives met in London last Thursday to discuss the modalities of striking a deal with th...

By Kanchan Gupta The venerable Wall Street Journal , which still takes the business of journalism seriously, has carried an interesting news...

With Taliban gaining a strong foothold in the country's north and northwest, Pakistan faces balkanisation By Ahmede Hussain W ith half o...

American dollars, CIA assistance helped spawn Taliban. Why blame Pakistan's ISI alone? Kanchan Gupta / Comment / May 11, 2009. T hat Ame...

Comment / Kanchan Gupta / May 7, 2009. W hen Gen Pervez Musharraf resigned from his post as President of Pakistan on August 18, 2008, there ...

It pays to let Taliban and Al Qaeda flourish. Or else Hamid Karzai would not have fallen from grace with the Americans! Comment by Kanchan ...

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing Swat Valley, escaping the horrors inflicted by the Taliban who have been enforcing 'true Islam...

'No wonder that others consider Muslims barbarians' By Humayun Gauhar The Nation (Pakistan) May 3, 2009 W hile divorce is the absolu...

Forget Swat, fear Taliban amid us Kanchan Gupta There is, we are told, disquiet among Muslims over Justice Markandey Katju’s comment, “We ...