opinion- Page 27

By K M Seethi Many treaties and agreements in international relations are the natural outcome of conflicts and wars between two or more players. In India-Pakistan relations too, the two major agreements

By Shubhda Chaudhary The political intensity with which the Pulwama attack has been reported by the international media reveals the underlying trajectories through which South Asian politics is discerned globally. First, international

By Rifat Fareed Whenever there would be a gun battle, 40-year-old Hamida would sink with anxiety, fearing that her 20-year-old rebel son might be one of those involved. On the afternoon of

By Aabid Rehman Pala “Death of a militant, civilian or an army personal is a human loss. It should never be celebrated because nothing can be achieved through it. It only desolate

By Ali Ahmed It is curious that the Army which has had an ‘Incident Day’ scenario predicating most of its exercises ever since the Parliament terror attack did not execute its contingency

By John Adair Trust being lost, all the social intercourse of men is brought to naught – Livy (Roman Historian) During his hidden years in Mecca working with merchant-caravans, probably as a

By Ibrahim Bijli Syed The rise of Muslims to the zenith of civilization in a period of four decades was based on lslam’semphasis on learning. This is obvious when one takes a

By Naseer Ahmed Allah is the sole source of all knowledge of what is right and what is wrong or what is moral and what is immoral. If we wish to master

By Ipsita Chakravarty & Safwat Zargar Could the tragedy of February 14, when 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in a suicide bombing in Kashmir, have been prevented? Were there

By Ajaz Ashraf The attack in Pulwama has spawned a nationalistic fervour rarely seen since the 1999 Kargil war. In the deadliest militant attack that Kashmir has ever witnessed, 49 jawans of