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TCA Raghavan

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Pakistan, a year after Operation Sindoor

Pakistan, perhaps even more than other countries, feeds on geopolitics for its overall national mood and psyche. (AFP)

Updated on May 7, 2026 16:01 IST

For Pakistan & US, it is back to doing business

Given the transactional nature that dominates the US, there is the temptation to find direct factors for the upswing in US-Pakistan relations. (AP)

Updated on Aug 5, 2025 15:37 IST

In Indus treaty pause, a reality check for Pakistan

Water security has been a vital priority of Pakistan’s strategic mindset for as long as the country has been in existence (AFP)

Updated on May 5, 2025 15:41 IST

Rethinking India-Pak ties in the new global context

The Indian stand continues to be a preference for holding Pakistan at arm’s length and letting this minimal relationship continue. (REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 25, 2025 13:56 IST

Multiple crisis vectors destabilising Pakistan

A supporter of the jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) throws an object towards security force personnel during a protest rally demanding Khan's release, in Islamabad, Pakistan, November 26, 2024. REUTERS/Waseem Khan (REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 2, 2024 14:45 IST

The many voices of the Quit India Movement

The Quit India Movement, launched on August 8, 1942, stands out in the metanarratives of the Indian Freedom Struggle (HT Archive)

Updated on Aug 10, 2024 15:38 IST

Making sense of the Islamabad mandate

Pakistan election results 2024 LIVE: Supporters of Imran Khan’s PTI in Karachi on Saturday. (REUTERS)

Updated on Feb 12, 2024 02:30 IST

Strategic mistrust key to Iran-Pak relations

File picture of Pakistani and Indian national flags.

Updated on Jan 22, 2024 10:46 IST

In Pakistan, new script, old actors

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses his supporters.

Updated on Oct 25, 2023 16:46 IST

In transition, Pak set for more turbulence

Pro-Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party lawyers shout slogans during a protest rally against the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Muzaffarabad

Updated on Aug 11, 2023 02:28 IST

Don’t hold out hope for better ties with Pakistan

The overall context of the India-Pakistan relationship and the extent of domestic confusion in Pakistan ruled out the possibility of any meaningful bilateral engagement at the recently concluded SCO meet in Goa (AFP)

Updated on May 8, 2023 13:12 IST

Musharraf leaves behind a tangled political legacy

For Musharraf, domestic extremists posed the real threat to Pakistan. To critics, he was never able to commit himself to exorcising Pakistan from its dependence on terrorist groups (AFP)

Updated on Feb 7, 2023 03:18 IST

Maintain equanimity in dealing with Pakistan

The India-Pakistan terrain is so bleak and differences on many issues so stark that any references to living in peace and wanting good relations are welcome, no matter how large a pinch of salt we may take alongside it.

Updated on Jan 19, 2023 14:17 IST

Pakistan’s period of calm is temporary

Pakistan’s political spectrum today is made up almost entirely of those who have, at some point of time, been proteges of the army but then also been burnt by it. In brief, there is no one the army can bring itself to fully trust or see as a safe option (via REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 7, 2022 14:41 IST

Pakistan is battling headwinds, yet again

The first half of General Qamar Bajwa’s tenure saw the marginalisation of Nawaz Sharif; the closing part of it has seen a reversal of that policy and Imran Khan as the target (AP)

Updated on Oct 27, 2022 14:06 IST

Pakistan’s immediate future looks bleak

While Shehbaz Sharif stands elected as PM, this by no means implies that order will now prevail (ANI)

Updated on Apr 12, 2022 13:54 IST

Pakistan’s opposition, public increasingly irked by the military’s role in politics

Pakistan opposition leaders Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of slain former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto (R) and former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif and brother of Shahbaz Sharif (C) and his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif (L) arrive for press conference at the end of All Parties Conference (APC) in Islamabad on September 20, 2020

Updated on Sep 28, 2020 14:24 IST

Balakot highlighted lowering of India’s threshold on terror

Picture of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) facility destroyed by Indian Ar Force strikes in Balakot, Pakistan on February 26, 2019.

Updated on Feb 13, 2020 23:38 IST

HTLS 2019: Knowledge is essential to create $5-trillion economy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s September visit to Vladivostok for the Eastern Economic Forum, where he met Russian President Vladimir Putin, signals India’s interest in the Far East.

Updated on Nov 26, 2019 10:44 IST

Opinion | What the US-Iran tensions mean for India

A woman walks past a mural painting along the wall of the former US embassy, Tehran, June 22, 2019

Updated on Jul 4, 2019 06:28 IST

Pakistan is on a path of its own

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan applauses as he is observes the fly-past by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) JF-17 Thunder fighter jet during the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan March 23, 2019

Updated on Jun 13, 2019 10:15 IST

In 2019, India must be open to opportunities and vigilant against threats

Navjot Singh Sidhu addresses the media after attending the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kartarpur Corridor, November 29. The Kartarpur Saheb opening shows that in the India Pakistan context bilateral developments follow their own logic and can surprise even the hardened cynic

Updated on Dec 28, 2018 04:05 IST

Global scrutiny may not bring changes in Pakistan

In the file photo, fire brigade officers are seen fighting fire at Taj hotel.

Updated on Nov 25, 2018 02:33 IST

1988 and the beginning of the Barelvi assertion

There was another marker in 1988 with a long after life: the publication of Salman Rushdie’s (in photo) Satanic Verses and the chain of events that this triggered.

Updated on Sep 22, 2018 13:01 IST

For Imran Khan, the real battle against Nawaz Sharif lies in the villages and towns of Punjab

Pakistan opposition leader and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan leaves Parliament after attending a session in Islamabad on May 23, 2018

Updated on Jun 21, 2018 02:32 IST

Nawaz Sharif’s comments expose Pakistan’s duplicitous stand on terrorism

Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif with former law minister Zahid Hamid as he leaves after addressing a press conference in Islamabad, on May 10, 2018.

Updated on May 25, 2018 02:56 IST

What Indo-Pacific means for India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron in New Delhi, March 11, 2018. The visit of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, saw a Joint Strategic Vision of India-France Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region, and this document refers to India’s central position in the ‘Indo-Pacific’,

Updated on Mar 31, 2018 09:55 IST

Pakistan remains the epicentre of terror and unrest

Demonstrators gather during a protest against US aid cuts at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border post, Chaman, Pakistan, January 5, 2018

Updated on Feb 15, 2018 06:53 IST

India-Asean ties: An incremental relationship that’s set to move ahead

(From L-R) Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister Narendra Modi , Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong pose for a photo during the 15th Asean-India Summit, on the sideline of the 31st Asean Summit, Manila, November 14, 2017

Updated on Jan 24, 2018 13:02 IST

Another December in Pakistan: A legacy of accumulated history

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, left, listens to his brother Shahbaz Sharif during a party meeting in Lahore in October

Updated on Dec 23, 2017 03:00 IST

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