Nagarjuna Rao

Made in Beijing, presented in Islamabad

In a farcical twist worthy of a low-budget action flick, Pakistan’s military top brass attempted to rewrite military history – armed not with facts, but with a photograph pinched from a 2019 Chinese army drill. At a ceremony organised to commemorate a supposed military ‘success’ (details classified, perhaps even from reality itself), Pakistan’s Chief of…

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And the Ignoble Prize goes to…!

In a world where political leaders compete more for laughs than legacy, this imagined Nobel spin-off rewards the true champions of gaffes, goof-ups, and grand delusions. What if one fine day the Nobel Committee in Oslo decided they had had enough of giving awards to peace-loving scientists and serious do-gooders? What if they finally gave…

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Trader Trump and his loose talk

Donald Trump has done it again. In a passing comment during a testy Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the US President claimed credit for defusing tensions between India and Pakistan, apparently, ‘through trade. ‘If you take a look at what we did with Pakistan and India… we settled that whole… and…

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