The US continues to stick with an system to elect its presidents that results in voters in many states having no real say in who the next leader of the country will be.
Anders Breivik may have shocked most of the world with most of his statements about the mass murder but may have had a point that he wasn't the only one who feared multiculturalism, something he shares with many European leaders and citizens.
The hard part of watching major events like Breivik's trial is avoiding the declaration that their criminal actors are simply "evil".
SRK arrived in a private plane accompanied by the wife of one of India’s biggest industrialists. A suspect won’t enter a country with such fanfare. In the end rules must be applied with intelligence.
India should strengthen the hands of the civilian government against the deep state, but can the civilians deliver on the key issue of terror? The answer is no.
Maybe the real fascination of the media with mating pandas in Scotland is that our politicians can't seem to fall in love either.
Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican Congressman from California, loudly declared Pakistan as the “enemy” of the United States and advocated support for an independent Balochistan.
Two separate cases of hate crime in the US have evoked two vastly different judicial responses, exposing the double-standards of the US justice system.
The Greeks asked themselves that if everything had a cause, how could the universe, and indeed god, have come to being from nowhere?
The urban Indian speaks mostly in English with bits and pieces of his mother tongue thrown in. But across the border, in Pakistan, the urban Pakistani's fluency in Urdu gives Pakistani television a different flavour.
It's puzzling that the Nobel Committee has ignored him this long as they did Gandhi.
When it comes to war zones, the world needs to listen to the voices of the subjects and the storytellers. We can't afford the deaths of either.
There is a morbid fascination with celebrity, which isn't about wanting to be rich or famous or talented but about wanting to feel better about ourselves when they fail.
The murder of Zamur Domki and her daughter Jaana on 31 January shows that Pak agencies are now assassinating Baloch nationalists and their kin.
India's $15bn Rafale aircraft deal has struck a nerve with the British public. The question being asked is why India needs foreign aid when it's got several billion pounds to spend on French fighter jets?
The Indian media has become blase about free speech. India badly needs more journalists like Pak's Najam Sethi.
Three decades of active hostility with Iran have not strategically benefited the US. It's time for Obama to listen to his inner voice — and engage Iran in the way he promised in 2008.
The Indian government has a very strange approach, to criticise foreign media highlighting India on one hand, while trying to prevent access to any criticism of the country from within the nation's borders.
Newt Gingrich is not a shining example of traditional Christian morals, based on his approach to marriage. But he doesn't have the WRONG flaws, such as leaving a wife for another man, or changing religions.
As the year came to a close, the Obama Administration finally decided to name Nancy Powell, a career diplomat, as ambassador to India, more than six months after the last envoy, Timothy Roemer resigned, somewhat abruptly.
Tomorrow, the US takes the first step towards choosing its next president. Except, it really did that about two years ago.
Contrary to Indian perceptions, the army is the only truly loved institution in Pakistan. Despite its crimes, it trumps the politicians hands down.
The first trilateral meeting established that, occasionally, three's company. And although China was never mentioned, it was the 800-pound panda in the room...
Pakistan is today a dirty word in Washington, thanks to the ISI's and the generals' games, lies, deceit and terror tactics.
US is not willing to allow China to rule the roost in Asia as Washington in the recent Apec meet sought to counter the dragon's rising power with tactful diplomacy.
No matter who gains ownership rights to the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ name, it seems absurdly ironic that the Occupy Wall Street activists now have to protect their movement from the very thing they’re fighting against – and that’s consumerism.
Why are bankers, brokers and people who hedge their financial bets keen on the Greeks not voting?
Republican candidates vying for their party's nomination to run against President Barack Obama next year are more than a massive dose of depression. To many, George W Bush today seems reasonable and bright by comparison.
Robin Hood was successful, in the mythology, because he was a named hero and the country rallied to the identity they constructed around him.
As China and the Dalai Lama begin their manoeuvres for the post-Dalai phase, India needs to get into the picture to ensure a smooth compromise