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Pakistan

Trapped Refugees

The forced deportation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan underscores the grim reality faced by displaced populations who find themselves at the mercy of shifting political priorities.

Asian roulette

There was time left yet ~ and there still is ~ for Zaka Ashraf to take the Pakistan Cricket Board over, with political assistance which in turn was reliant on martial blessings, when, with one salvo, the former bank executive turned the Asia Cup upside down.

Indo-Pak ties

A commentary in Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper notes “Today, the power imbalance between Pakistan and India has rendered Pakistan almost irrelevant in India’s strategic calculus. A failing, fragmented state ~ if not a ‘twice failed state,’ as former diplomat Ashraf Jahangir Qazi puts it, begging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the revival of its deal is hardly a threat anymore to a rising giant like India.”

Harsh Truths

Seemingly, living in denial is a Pakistani specialty, considering the defiant front that it continues to put up in the face of unprecedented socio-economic desperation, societal implosion and a civil-war-like situation when conflated with the reality in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan etc. Even Pakistan's ostensible 'backyard' and progeny in the form of Afghan Taliban is up in arms against it, while the sectarian dissonance with a Shi'ite Iran is a permanent problem