Sudeep Paul
How a playboy embarked on his quest for an Islamic utopia
New Delhi keeps away from the turmoil in Pakistan, preferring to watch from a distance the steady ebbing of Islamabad’s strategic clout
Imran Khan had one ingrained virtue. He was breathtakingly sincere. But good intentions do not constitute good governance. Like an amateur, he overestimated his abilities when he needed wile or guile as strategy. On his day of judgment, Imran compared his predicament to that of Imam Hussain. The messiah may be faltering, but the messiah complex is alive and well
In November 2021, Imran Khan took a fatal misstep when he thought he could actually pick his own ISI chief
Writer and politician Javed Jabbar tells the tale of his tangled relations with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Benazir Bhutto
India’s strategic planning must take into account not only the changes thrown into relief by the pandemic but also the interconnectedness of global crises
Tariq Ali reports from the fault lines of Afghanistan to make sense of its current trauma