opinion - Page 136

By MANSOOR ALAM Fourteen hundred years ago, when the world was shrouded in darkness, the Quran mentioned that the Universe is expanding – “AND IT IS We who have built the Universe…

By Nasim Zehra The next morning, 12 hours after the top military command had briefed him on Op KP, the prime minister summoned key cabinet members to the PM House. Sharif chaired…

By Yogi Aggarwal The GST was controversial because of the high and multiple rates imposed on the businesses and the consumers, but the hope was that it would make tax collection easier…

By Sushant Singh The immediate provocation for the unofficial release of the army’s video of the surgical strikes of September 2016 to multiple television channels last Wednesday is not known: Pakistan seems…

By Aamer Ahmed Khan Any political development that leads to consolidation or perpetuation of hereditary leadership bears a foreboding not dissimilar to that surrounding an omnipresent threat of military intervention. Yet in…

By Harsh Mander This is what India has become: One more pitiless lynching. This time of two older men, a petty goat trader and a marginal farmer in a village in Hapur,…

By Vikram Zutshi In 2015, a year after Modi was declared the Prime Ministerial candidate for the BJP, Prodyut Bora, the original founder of the party’s controversial ‘IT Cell’ quit the party…

By Nasim Zehra On May 17, 1999, the prime minister was given a detailed operational briefing on Operation KohPaima (Op KP). It was held at the Inter Services Intelligence’s (ISI’s) Ojhri Camp…

By Sankarshan Thakur Just a footnote, if you will, to the annual rite of fuming and frothing over the Emergency, now that it is beginning to ebb and settle: there were many…

By Andrew Whitehead. June has been a cruel month in Kashmir. As it opened, there appeared to be a glimmer of hope in one of the most enduring of separatist conflicts. The…