Mani Shankar Aiyar Hafiz Saeed

For the third time in succession, Pakistan goes to the polls on July 25 to elect both the new parliament (called in Pakistan the National Assembly) and the four provincial assemblies of Punjab, Sind, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP, known to Indian readers more by its previous name, North-West Frontier Province - NWFP).

Seven years on, Mumbai remains in a tangle in Pakistan's judicial jungle. I am willing to place a small bet that seven years from now, Pathankot will remain in a similar tangle.

The controversy over journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik's meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed refuses to subside with the Congress on Wednesday dubbing Mr Vaidik as an "RSS volunteer beyond any doubt" and seeking to know the "hidden agenda" behind the meet.

Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed appeared to lose his cool on a Pakistani TV talk show on Thursday when Indian parliamentarian Mani Shankar Aiyar confronted him and said he should be arrested and brought before a terrorism court. Saeed is the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

For the third time in succession, Pakistan goes to the polls on July 25 to elect both the new parliament (called in Pakistan the National Assembly) and the four provincial assemblies of Punjab, Sind, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP, known to Indian readers more by its previous name, North-West Frontier Province - NWFP).

Seven years on, Mumbai remains in a tangle in Pakistan's judicial jungle. I am willing to place a small bet that seven years from now, Pathankot will remain in a similar tangle.

The controversy over journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik's meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed refuses to subside with the Congress on Wednesday dubbing Mr Vaidik as an "RSS volunteer beyond any doubt" and seeking to know the "hidden agenda" behind the meet.

Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed appeared to lose his cool on a Pakistani TV talk show on Thursday when Indian parliamentarian Mani Shankar Aiyar confronted him and said he should be arrested and brought before a terrorism court. Saeed is the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.