Pak-Iran: energy sector performance and wind power project
News Analysis | By the end of the financial year 2017, it can be said that  Pakistan’s power and energy sector will see tremendous improvements...
The start of the dreaded “Muslim ban”
“With the objective of maximizing national security, the Department of State will implement Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the...
Politics, not religion, is the source of Sunni-Shiite conflict
Nauman Sadiq l Lately, it has become a habit of Orientalist apologists of Western imperialism to offer reductive historical and theological explanations of Sunni-Shi’a conflict...
The Ummah : The fresh Princes of Bel Arabia and Muhammad Bin Salman
Haider Mehdi | King Salman, by elevating his son, the 31 years Mohammed Bin Salman, or MBS, as Crown Prince, may actually have signed MBS’s...
Ideological foundations and organizational structure of Islamic State
Nauman Sadiq | The fight against the much-dreaded ISIS is on with varying degrees of resolving and success.It becomes important to trace the ideological antecedents...
Iran sits pretty as the Qatar crisis continues to loom
News Analysis | The Qatar saga continues to frustrate peaceniks. For many, this rift between Arab countries is Iran’s hit. As the crisis remains unresolved,...
Increased intervention in Syria: How many targets is the US eyeing?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The shooting down of a Syrian SU-22 warplane by a US F/A-18E Super Hornet to the south of the city of...
No carrots, all sticks: Washington upping the ante against Iran
News Analysis | Amid the brewing crisis in the Middle East, the decades-long US-Iranian rivalry continues with full verve. The US legislators and the Trump...
Gulf crisis and the future of Middle East
Ahsan Hamid Durrani | An energy-rich part of the world engulfed in perpetual turbulence, political instability, violent extremism, economic debilitation, sectarian divide characterized by ruthless...
The Iranian threat: How can Pakistan safeguard its interests?
Saleem Akhtar Malik | Pakistan’s northwestern and southwestern borders are no longer inert. We are well aware of the security environment along the Durand Line....
Kurdish aspirations in the wake of changing US foreign policy
America-Russia reconciliation will change the dynamics of American foreign policy especially regarding NATO and the Middle East. There are two possible outcomes of this...
Is there any Kurdish-Daesh-Saudi connection in Syria and Iran?
Andrew Korybko | There are technically several stories here which all merge into a single one about how the Kurds are connected to Daesh, but...