Nawaz Sharif

Imran Khan: Down but Not Out

Makarand R Paranjape

Imran Khan could offer an opportunity that India must not forego

The Foundational Error

The power balance in Pakistan is poised on a fragile axis. Sharif, Zardari and Khan constitute a lopsided triangle. All three are high-stakes gamblers in the no-limits political casino. The croupier-owner is the army. All three know that this is their last throw of dice

Déjà Vu in Pakistan

Shuja Nawaz

Economic recovery will be slow amidst political instability no matter who wins the election

The Circle Gets Bigger

MJ Akbar

The conceptual daring and strategic potential of an economic corridor

Kargil and Clinton

TP Sreenivasan

The US president did not accept the condition that he should mediate between India and Pakistan

The Opium Jihad

Iqbal Chand Malhotra

How Pakistan created the world’s most dangerous narco state

Pervez Musharraf: An end with a whimper and not a bang

Rajeev Deshpande

Author of the failed Kargil adventure, Pervez Musharraf’s death in exile is an unremarkable end for an ambitious general who hoped for glory as a military leader and Pakistan’s president