Topic: Pakistan

Indian courts apply the principle of “rarest of rare” circumstances when they award capital punishment. RAJGOPAL SINGH

A series of attacks are targeting the census workers in the ongoing enumeration drive in Pakistan, which began last month. Identity politics based on ethnicity is the suspect. RAMA LAKSHMI

Pakistan is not an equal or stable neighbor. Only the stamp of a global power can assure lasting peace with India

He knows he isn't the only one helpless. So is his army, given the near-impossibility of a coup in 2016.

Pakistan's military is a formidable force that has consistently failed its country. The problem is nobody in Pakistan can dare question it.

Indian and Pakistan have both followed a consistent policy of talk-talk, fight-fight since the Kashmir insurgency began in 1989. By invoking Balochistan and northern areas, Modi has changed it to 'you mess with our soft underbelly, we will mess with your most vulnerable region.

New turn reveals our ugliest underside: it's not even about Kashmiri territory or Kashmiris, India or Pakistan. It's now Hindu Vs Muslim and a lose-lose

Pakistan is a classical national security state which needs to be constantly at war with somebody, ultimately resulting in it waging war on itself and its own people.

Why Khurshid Kasuri may have his story-telling right but politics wrong.

Power structure of Pakistan entirely lies with its Army.