It is celebration time in Pakistan. Abdul Qadeer Khan, 72, popularly known as the "father of Islamic nuclear arsenal", was freed last week by the Islamabad High Court from his solitary confinement that lasted five years.  The Week quoted from an editorial in Pakistan Observer : "Pakistan’s greatest living hero, Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan’s […]

The enormity of the global financial crisis, with its epicentre in the USA, has taken even the big economists and pundits by surprise. Now as the world waits with a bated breath, President Barack Obama’s team has offered a rescue plan. But what intrigues me most is that despite visible laxity in the regulatory mechanism and […]

Next Tuesday US president-elect Barack Obama would move into his new office and home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., what the world popularly knows as the White House. There seems to be a genuine feeling of relief and celebration in the air everywhere, including Kenya. With less than a week to go before Obama takes […]

Pakistan government’s denial mode in the wake of the bloody Mumbai terror attack last month is now being put to a severe test. Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani said on Wednesday that Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor among the Mumbai attackers (who is in the Indian police custody), is a Pakistani national. This statement […]