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TLP is no Lashkar-e-Taiba, its agitation no civil war. Yet Pakistan is losing a battle

In Pakistan, those in power have historically presented brazen use of religion as pragmatism. Bhutto had lost to the religious Right in 1977.

Pakistani State sympathises all sorts of religious groups. Khadim Rizvi was just one of them

Since the establishment of Pakistan, each decade has seen different religious groups that have amplified religious-ideological sensitivities around various issues.

Pakistan said to be using radical Islamist party to leash 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed

Indian investigators say propping up the TLP, which represents the Barelvis’ to keep in check the Wahhabi-inspired Jamaat-ud-Dawa.

In Asia Bibi blasphemy violence, Imran Khan faces the Frankenstein’s monster

Not too long ago, Imran Khan had actively supported the violent protests against the Nawaz Sharif government.

Hilal Kids, Pak army’s mag for children, aims at preventing ‘anti-state’ thoughts

More anger over Dutch cartoon contest and Interpol declines Pak request to bring back Musharraf.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.