We must thank Saudi Arabia for having helped India with a major breakthrough in the probe into the 26/11 Mumbai attacks by facilitating the arrest of Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, one of the key plotters of the dastardly attack on Mumbai. Jundal, who had directed Ajmal Kasab and other 26/11 attackers from the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) control room, was picked up by the Saudi police, who p...

There is a vicious circle in the extortion of money from officials involved in rural development works.  Such officers, who do not enjoy any high security and work in adverse conditions, have no option but to pay, the payment made from funds meant for development in backward areas. As a result, these areas continue to remain backward, which is what insurgents-turned-terrorists — who ...

Holding the string of power by a single institution exists in Pakistan. The eventuality is confrontation among the different bodies. All try to show strength and prove the other weak

Who runs Pakistan? Is it Islamabad administration, Pakistani army, the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) or the non-state actors operating from its soil? This has been debated over and over again. But...