Will Nawaz Sharif walk the talk on India?

Sarabjit's murder will certainly add bitterness in relations and serve as a setback to efforts to promote people-to-people ties between the two countries, says Sushant Sareen In the end, Sarabjit Singh was executed not by a hangman but by Pakistan’s famed ‘non-State’ actors -- his fellow prisoners on death row -- who are believed to have been put up to the job of bludgeoning him into a lifeless pulp by ‘State’ actors (jail officials). Of course, instead of someone ...

In Pakistan, the participation of women in politics is increasing in general but the presence of women in the political parties as well as in the political structure at the local, provincial, and national levels remains insignificant due to cultural ...

Led by Mir Ali Khan, better known as the Faqir of Ipi, tens of thousands of militia revolted against the judgment—sparking off almost a decade of fighting, involving combat aircraft strafing tribal villages. It was 1936 — and some things haven't ...

Praveen Swami, Firstpost and CNN-IBN New Delhi: A day after a CNN-IBN and FirstPost investigation found that ganglord Dawood Ibrahim's cash was washing up in the offshore banking haven of Nassau in The Bahamas in a Bank of Baroda branch, the ...

"In response to some of the news items appearing in TV channel regarding the purported transfer of funds through Bank of Baroda, Nassau Branch, Bahamas, it is clarified that Bank of Baroda, Nassau has been maintaining among others, the account of ...

Praveen Swami, , Firstpost and CNN-IBN New Delhi: Twenty years ago, his smuggling operations paid for the bombs which killed 257 people in Mumbai. Now, a CNN-IBN and FirstPost investigation has found that ganglord Dawood Ibrahim's cash is washing up ...

Ibrahim, transnational crime expert Gretchen Peters says, has become the, the Goldman Sachs of organised crime. Theyre highly transnational, they move billions of dollars annually, and service a wide range of clients from corrupt officials, to drug ...

What Musharraf doesn’t understand is that deposed dictators are like used toiler paper: No one has any use for them and hence, they are best discarded, says Sushant Sareen. Pakistan’s former military dictator, General Pervez Musharraf, has ended his nearly five year-long self-exile to return home to a tepid welcome by a handful of die-hard supporters and what was clearly a ‘rent-a-crowd’ bunch of people. While his return did have some news value, the sort of excitement ...