The Latest Breaking News from Pakistan

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest stories from Kashmir, South India, Pakistan and the US.Produced by Kartik Nijhawan and edited by Satish Kumar.You can also listen to all our podcasts on the Newslaundry App and get updates about all our podcasts via Twitter and Facebook.iOS: http://apple.co/2iZhEq1Newslaundry is a reader-supported,…

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest stories from Kashmir, New Delhi, South India, Pakistan and Kenya.

The spectacular Gurez valley lies secluded in the upper reaches of the Himalaya, tucked between the northern stretch of Kashmir, 123 km from Srinagar, and Pakistan’s southern horizon. When you tell the locals how beautiful it is, the common response is: “Oh, but you don’t want to be here in the winters.”

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif seems to have decided that he isn’t going to go down without a fight, even if it means taking on the all-powerful, military-dominated “establishment”.

National power is defined as the ability of a nation to attain its strategic objectives by directed action. National power is no longer restricted to the military but also includes a multiplicity of factors such as strength of the economy, human resources, availability of national resources, knowledge and science and…

Over the last few years there has been a discernible, if also disturbing, trend to involve, or even drag in the judiciary to settle political scores. While instituting all sorts of cases – fake or genuine, criminal or civil – against political rivals has for long been part and parcel…

A Century Is Not EnoughBy Sourav Ganguly, co-written with Gautam BhattacharyaPublished by JuggernautPages 258It was on a sunny winter day in December 1995 when, as a schoolboy, I watched Sourav Ganguly on a cricket ground for the first time. He was dismissed for a paltry nine runs in Bengal’s first…

Whatever else you may say or feel about US President Donald Trump’s in-your-face style of diplomacy, his clarity, realism, and even understanding of most foreign policy issues are far superior to that of his more “intellectually-inclined” predecessors. On Pakistan and its perfidious policy on combating and confronting Islamic terrorism, Trump…