'Dawn' journalist Cyril Almeida on the frenzy following his story on the army-government rift

The journalist was placed on the Exit Control List, stopping him from leaving Pakistan.

Cyril Almeida

· Oct 18, 2016 · 07:30 pm

By weaponising public opinion, both India and Pakistan are diminishing chances of peace

There has never been a stage where both state and society in both countries wanted all-out war. This may change.

Cyril Almeida

· Oct 03, 2016 · 09:30 pm

Pakistan is right to be wary of the US helping India get into Nuclear Suppliers Group

And there’s everything right in Islamabad turning to Beijing for support.

Cyril Almeida

· Jun 14, 2016 · 07:30 pm

View from Pakistan: On Kulbhushan Jadhav, what we’re being told isn't why it's being done

The last time Pakistan was being overrun by spies, it was the Americans.

Cyril Almeida

· Apr 12, 2016 · 07:30 pm

Is Pakistan facing a fourth wave of jihad?

A prescient op-ed from the Karachi paper, 'Dawn', published on the morning of the Lahore attack.

Cyril Almeida

· Mar 28, 2016 · 06:30 am

View from Pakistan: Did Modi's Lahore visit really make sense?

You get the sense that neither the Indian nor the Pakistani prime minister really understands all the moving parts and endless strands that is Pak-India.

Cyril Almeida

· Dec 28, 2015 · 08:00 am

Why does Pakistan keep demanding a civil nuclear deal from the US?

Though Pakistani officials have denied that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will push for an agreement with Barack Obama when he meets him on Thursday, strategists across the border believe Islamabad merits one.

Cyril Almeida

· Oct 22, 2015 · 09:30 pm

Deterrence on steroids: Pakistani strategists embrace nuclear option as answer to Indian threat

Credible minimum deterrence was simple, elegant ‒ and enough. But then, the boys decided it was not enough

Cyril Almeida

· Sep 14, 2015 · 12:30 pm

View from Pakistan: Modi's anti-terror talk is actually making the neighbourhood more dangerous

The Indian prime minister is escalating tensions instead of cooling things down.

Cyril Almeida

· Sep 09, 2015 · 08:30 pm

Why the India-Pakistan relationship is looking intractable again

The intolerable threat of militancy for New Delhi and the unsustainable proposition of a conventional arms race for Islamabad: this is challenge each nation faces.

Cyril Almeida

· Jun 16, 2015 · 01:30 pm