Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
32 POSTS
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery is a Research Analyst and Sub-Editor at Global Village Space (GVS). He frequently writes on defense and strategic affairs of South Asia.
Afghanistan
Why is Chabahar Port no match for Gwadar?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |India launched a new conduit for trade with Afghanistan when it shipped 1.1 million tons of wheat to Afghanistan from...
Fiery & Feisty
The suave, the well-dressed and the eloquent!
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While reading one of the seminal works of the doyen of the US strategic community, Henry Kissinger, I thought about...
Global Village
Lebanon: A new theater opens for Iran and Saudi Arabia?
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Amidst simmering crises in the Middle East, Lebanon finds itself in the thick of things as Saudi Arabia on Monday...
Global Village
Thank you Najam Sethi!
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |Former Kiwi fast-bowler and currently one of the darlings of cricket watchers, Danny Morrison was shouting, chirping and "revving it...
Global Village
Let’s build a positive ‘transactional relationship’ with the US
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |U.S Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson will visit Pakistan next week to discuss the US vision for the new South...
Global Village
Trump’s Twitter rants and Kim’s red lines
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |Japan was jostled when Kim's North Korea fired an IRBM that flew over its territory. Despite condemnations and threats from...
Afghanistan
A policy in search of a strategy
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |After endless deliberations, bickerings, and dithering, President Trump got the cat out of the bag; the new South Asia policy...
Global Village
Number 363 for Khan!
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |The much-awaited verdict was announced today. The 5-member bench of the Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a...
Global Village
No judicialization but only democratization of democracy
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |All eyes will be on the news coming out from the building in the feature image of the article. Yes,...
Global Village
Perhaps Khan was not a cricketer? Geo’s continuing love affair with IK
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |Just as the Panama case reaches its culmination point, the future of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hangs in the balance....
Global Village
Imran Khan’s buddies in the league of the lions!
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |The Panama Case has entered its decisive phase and by the looks of things, the Sharif family is on the...
Global Village
Is Nawaz Sharif finally reaching his end?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery |The Panama Case has reached its culmination point. Amid all hue and cry, the three-member bench of the Supreme Court...