Stories by Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Instead of a Big Brother policy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan should consider a policy of Strategic Generosity.
Updated 05 Nov, 2025 08:57am
We are at a ‘to be or not to be’ moment in which common moral sense must prevail.
Updated 17 Oct, 2025 08:58am
What is to be done? What can be done? How can it be done? Where do we begin?
Updated 18 Sep, 2025 09:51am
After its chastening experience of Operation Sindoor, one might have hoped India would now consider the possibilities for cooperation over hegemony.
Updated 06 Aug, 2025 10:03am
This is a losing situation for both countries and for South Asia.
Updated 23 Jul, 2025 09:09am
All self-respecting Pakistanis were embarrassed by the government’s decision.
Updated 25 Jun, 2025 09:02am
The only way out of this situation is a truth, justice, and reconciliation process that prioritises country above every other.
Updated 09 Apr, 2025 09:36am
What is absolutely required is a Nelson Mandela-like initiative to help heal the country.
Updated 25 Mar, 2025 09:42am
Our outrage overwhelms us. It does not motivate us to do anything constructive.
Updated 07 Feb, 2025 08:04am
The world will be fortunate if it merely finds itself on a roller coaster.
Published 01 Feb, 2025 05:29am
Tens of thousands of things need to be done to transform a traditional society and an underdeveloped country.
Updated 20 Dec, 2024 09:22am
Depending on one’s inclination, Damascus has either fallen, or is free. In truth, both descriptions are accurate.
Updated 09 Dec, 2024 12:46pm
Trump, like Biden, celebrates the genocide in Gaza, the setback to Hezbollah, and the presumed humiliation of Iran.
Updated 06 Dec, 2024 11:26am
The govt that was installed after the Feb 8 election is representative of the power that installed it rather than of the people.
Updated 20 Sep, 2024 08:00am
A whole new generation of Indians and Pakistanis need to know more about each other and why they feel and think about each other the way they do.
Updated 27 Aug, 2024 10:22am
The world’s mightiest country will be led by someone who is either “not quite there” or someone who is pathologically “reckless”.
Updated 29 Jun, 2024 09:30am
Our currently passive and perverse political intelligentsia needs to have more integrity.
Updated 22 Dec, 2023 08:48am
This relentless capitalist class warfare of the superrich against the poor is not reflected in Zakaria’s statistics.
Updated 16 Dec, 2023 10:24am
Indian Muslims have only 9.5pc of India’s wealth, whereas the Hindu upper castes, with less than half the population.
Updated 08 Dec, 2023 08:53am
Pakistan’s economic crisis is as much a political as it is an economic challenge.
Updated 25 Nov, 2023 08:36am
