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This is a post about the heart-rending tragedy that struck on the Siachen Glacier early Saturday morning, which has buried - and in all lik...

I had hoped to put up this image which one of our Twitter friends (don't remember which one) had pointed us to, after a Pakistan win in ...

It's usually at times like these that I heave a sigh of relief that one does not have easy access to Indian news television channels in ...

I had vowed at some point in Pakistan's dismal recent cricketing history not to write on cricket again. Actually I had probably vowed no...

Reading through the top story in today's The News and Jang , my eyes grew progressively wider and wider. Not so much from the latest Wi...

This past week seems to have been a Nizami-obsessed week. Might as well share a final bit of news about the goings on at The Nation. So, S...

The Commonwealth Games (CWG) about to begin in New Delhi in the next couple of days have received plenty of bad press, and most of it quit...

Imagine my surprise when Monday night I saw a news item on Geo which began with the anchors heaping scorn on the Indian media for following...

This is a shocking video from Indian Kashmir which demonstrates once again what the mentality of a frustrated and unpopular military force b...

The only question that can possibly arise from any sensible follower of international relations after reading Center for International Polic...

I have such mixed emotions about the WikiLeaks expose of the Afghan War Diaries and so many strands of thought that I want to pursue that ...