Why its a must to get Zardari?

This article originally appeared in Daily Times as my weekly column BAAGHI on Monday November 7, 2011 It has been a week since the blogerati, TV anchors and…

Lion of Lahore Growls, but Why?

It originally appeared in Daily Times as my weekly column BAAGHI on Monday October 31, 2011 The upping of the the political temperature recently seems to be promising…

No Clean Hands in AmAfPak

This was originally published by Daily Times as my weekly column BAAGHI on Monday October 24, 2011 The recent diplomatic overdose to Pakistan by the US has not…

Confronting Popular Narrative about the Taliban — II

This appeared as my weekly column BAAGHI in Daily Times on Monday October 17, 2011. The first part of this article can be seen here. This blogpost corrects…

Confronting Popular Narrative about the Taliban — I

It originally appeared in Daily Times as my weekly column BAAGHI on Monday October 10, 2011 Last week, one got the opportunity to be on a television talk…

Resisting the Taliban Menace – II

This was originally published by Daily Times as my weekly column BAAGHI on Monday October 3, 2011. First part of this article, published by the same paper on…

Resisting the Taliban Menace – I

It originally appeared in Daily Times on Monday September 26, 2011 as my weekly column BAAGHI It was on August 25, 2001 — 15 days before 9/11 —…

Liberalization of Strategic Depth – II

It originally appeared in Daily Times on Monday September 19, 2011 as my weekly column BAAGHI. Its first part, appeared on Monday September 12, 2011 in same paper,…

Liberalisation of strategic depth — I

Originally published in Daily Times on Monday September 12, 2011 as my weekly column BAAGHI On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, all we have in our hands is…

A Head-on Collision with Hawks

Originally published as my weekly BAAGHI in Daily Times on Monday August 29, 2011 If you have any doubt about the stagnation of positivist thought process, decadent intellectual…