Abbas Nasir

It will not be an easy ride for the new po­lit­i­cal lead­er­ship that will take over in post-elec­tion Pak­istan.

As po­lar­i­sa­tion deep­ens in Pak­istan, na­tion­al tragedies at­tract both cheers and mourn­ing.

Since the Mum­bai at­tacks in 2008 sev­er­al at­tempts to restart the stalled process have come to naught.

Hun­dreds have died dur­ing the decade-long in­sur­gency in Balochis­tan. Yet peace talks may now be on the hori­zon.

Pak­istan’s late ji­hadist spy mas­ter gar­nered mixed sen­ti­ments with his ex­pan­sion­ist pol­i­tics.

Af­ter the deaths of Mul­lah Omar and Ma­lik Ishaq, new ques­tions arise about the Tal­iban talks.