India watches uneasily as Pakistan rebounds

Reticence and equivocation do not sit well with India's aspiration to a global role.

Sharat Sabharwal

Updated At : 07:08 AM May 02, 2026 IST

Reality : Pakistan is nowhere close to a collapse; it is anything but isolated. Reuters

PAKISTAN has been at centre stage as a mediator between the US and Iran. Whatever the outcome, its efforts at ending the conflict that threatens to wreck the world economy have given it positive geopolitical relevance that it had lacked since 9/11.

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has come out every day over the last 145 years. THE TRIBUNE was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist of the time. The newspaper is run by a five-member Trust, which is chaired by Shri N N Vohra, former Governor of J&K State (2008-2018); as well as Justice S S Sodhi, former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court; Shri Gurbachan Jagat, former Governor of Manipur; Lt Gen. Shamsher Singh Mehta, former Western Army Commander; Shri Paramjit Singh Patwalia, Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court.

THE TRIBUNE is free, objective, and independent. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language, are the hallmarks of the paper.

The Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).

Remembering Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia

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India watches uneasily as Pakistan rebounds

Reticence and equivocation do not sit well with India's aspiration to a global role.

Sharat Sabharwal

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