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India deplores ‘false assertions’ in UK Parliament Kashmir debate Updated: Updated: January 14, 2021 16:46 IST The debate was organised by backbench British MPs at Westminster Hall in the House of Commons on January 13, 2021 Share Article Houses of Parliament complex in London. File   | Photo Credit: AP The debate was organised by backbench British MPs at Westminster Hall in the House of Commons on January 13, 2021 India has expressed its dismay at some of the parliamentarians who participated in a debate on Kashmir in the Houses of Parliament complex in London relying on “false asse...

The 1999 India and Pakistan Nuclear War That Almost Was A nuclear war between those countries would have impacted the entire globe. Key point: Thankfully a full-scale nuclear war did not erupt. But Pakistan's decision to pick a fight was incredibly dumb. For years, there was a conceit that no two states with nuclear weapons have ever directly fought each other. That conceit has at times been thin. For example, during the Korean War, Soviet air force regiments battled U.S. jet fighters in support of North Korea. But Washington as much as Moscow refrained from pointing out that thinly-veiled f...

One big lesson from the political and economic history of Pakistan is that ad-hoc and inorganic political arrangements are destined to fail sooner or later.The latest example is the hybrid regime of...

The writer is a former ambassador to the US, UK and UN. THE evolving political situation in the country confronts both the government and opposition with difficult dilemmas. The decisions that followed the PDM’s Lahore rally and the atmosphere its combative campaign has created can be consequential in the days to come. The confrontation between the government and opposition continues to polarise the country and reinforce a fraught environment. Both sides have ruled out any dialogue and remain at loggerheads with each other. The opposition’s tough rhetoric has been matched by the governmen...

Top Story December 20, 2020 LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has said the institutions are worried about the performance of the government, and not the PDM [Pakistan Democratic Movement]. Addressing a press conference along with Azma Bukhari and Ataullah Tarar at the party's central secretariat in Model Town here on Saturday, he said the opposition had not asked the army chief to overthrow the government. “We will send the government packing with the power of our planned long march and save the country on February 1, 2021,” he announced. The PDM lead...