Jinnah In My Room

“What are you going to do with that photo in your room?” Amma asked with a frown, when I was home recently. “Which one?” I asked, but should have guessed. “The Jinnah one,” my 86-year-old mum said. “The one in which he’s wearing a black…

A Few Crude Men

What is disappointing about Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, a merciless takedown of the first eight months of the Trump presidency, is that it does not end in the way it should. It leads you into thinking that President Donald Trump is now…

Two nations and a black hole

For both Pakistan and India, Kulbhushan Jadhav has become a pawn in a high-stakes game.  In my memory, the Pakistan Foreign Office in Islamabad has a bright foyer lit with a grand chandelier, and tea and biscuits were always laid out…