It was unprecedented: Two Pakistani citizens openly visited Israel on their Pakistani passports – and re-entered Pakistan without hindrance, despite a fierce media controversy. So…
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India has close ties with both Moscow and the West. But its neutrality now looks like tacit endorsement of Russia’s ruthless invasion of Ukraine –…
Six decades after his death, India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru is making headlines again, hand-in-hand with Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion, whom Nehru cold-shouldered during…
The Texas hostage-taker tried to free Aafia Siddiqui from U.S. prison. Why she inspires such dangerous fans is a story about Islamism, Pakistan’s duplicity, open…
The story of Aafia Siddiqui, and her zealous fans, exposes the intersection of Islamist violence, Pakistani politics, raging antisemitism and the relentless, hypocritical apologists for…
In conflicts in Lebanon, Israel, Gaza and Turkey, dead bodies have been used as leverage for years. Now, in Kashmir, India is instituting a similar…
For decades, A.Q. Khan charmed civil and military leaders with his lies, just as he did when I met him. But his profiteering off proliferation,…
‘My name is Khan, and I am no longer wanted’: In India’s once-famously pluralist Bollywood, being Muslim is now a liability. As Modi’s Hindu nationalist…
Kabul’s new Taliban rulers say they won’t interfere with India. But for New Delhi, as more militants cross the border into an increasingly fragile Kashmir,…
Abdul Qadeer Khan, who died this week in Islamabad, got Pakistan the bomb, stole and sold atomic secrets, profited from a shady global proliferation network,…