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Ishtiaq Ahmed

1. The balance of power in Pakistan

In the last few weeks politics in Pakistan has exhibited volatility that could have ended with an explosion. Either the military would have carried out a coup or the civilian government would have fire...

2. Pakistan and patrons: USA, China and S. Arabia

Many Asian and African polities entered into alliances with the two main superpowers of the post-Second World War era – the United States (US) and the Soviet Union – in the hope of getting economic...

3. Aug. 14: Punjabi Viewpoint

This week, on the eve of Aug. 14, Viewpoint’s theme is: What freedom means for your province after 65 years of independence? In case of the...

4. Bigotry's march: 1929-2011

Tuesday, January 4, 2011 will always be remembered as the day when Islamist terrorism took one more step towards wholesale talibanisation of Pakistan. Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was slain by his own ...

5. Superpowers' role in 1971

Nothing is more shattering and traumatic for a state than to experience a part of its territory seceding because of internal rebellion or external intervention or both. That is, however, exactly what hap...

6. Origins of the Kashmir dispute

The contemporary international system is constituted by sovereign states whose territorial claims are clearly defined, demarcated and agreed upon in the form of international boundaries. However, excepti...

7. The Babri masjid-Ram janambhoomi controversy

Righting historical wrongs is a dangerous basis for establishing amity and harmony in present-day societyA verdict of historic proportions was delivered by the Allahabad High Court (AHC) on Thursday in a...

8. The Talibanization of Pakistan: threat abated!

It is a political adage that the modern state is a juridical-territorial entity that does not tolerate competing centres of power and authority because to do that would mean a detraction from its exclusi...

9. The Lahore effect

I am a long-time resident in Sweden where I have been living since September 1973. When the initial euphoria of living in a new place subsided and life assumed some sort of normality, it began to dawn up...

10. 9/11 & conspiracy theories

On September 11 2001 a series of daredevil coordinated terrorist attacks on symbols and institutions of U.S. economic and military power traumatised the United States. Such trauma would have been total h...

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