From the pastor crisis to the S-400 showdown, Turkey-US conflict still ongoing
Imran Jan | Turkey and the United States are at loggerheads with each other over the issue of two "religious preachers" from their countries respectively....
Small men occupying big offices: PM tweet blasts Modi
News Analysis | The recent step by the Indian government led by Hindutva leader Narendar Modi has dashed hopes for a reinvigorated Pak-India peace process....
Sharifs are still ‘convicts’ despite the controversial IHC verdict
News Analysis | In what has been touted as one of the most controversial decisions in the judicial history of Pakistan, the Islamabad High Court...
Gunmen kill 11 soldiers at Iran army parade, Tehran blames US ally
AFP | Militants shot dead at least 11 people at a military parade in southwestern Iran on Saturday, state media reported, in a rare attack...
Amid Adiala humiliation, DIG Rawalpindi transfers Hanif Abbasi to Attock Jail
News Analysis | Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N’s) senior leader Hanif Abbasi has been shifted from Rawalpindi’s Adiala to Attock jail on Saturday . The incarcerated outspoken leader...
Is KSA’s inclusion in CPEC an answer to Pakistan’s economic crises?
News Analysis | Pakistan has struck a $10 billion deal with and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after taking the Chinese authorities in confidence over the...
Middle Eastern black swans dot China’s Belt and Road – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | If any one part of the world has forced China to throw its long-standing foreign and defense policy principles out the...
Imran Khan! Can he be Pakistan’s Nehru?
Ajaz Khan | “Imran Can’t”. That is how he was described in the 1970s when he graced the cricketing fields across the world. The rest,...
U.S move of sanctioning China for buying Russian military hardware is not going to play well
News Analysis | U.S state department has imposed fresh economic sanctions over Russia, blacklisting further companies, military and intelligence personnel for “malign activities”. It is...
Figures speak louder than words – Muhammad Zahid Rifat
Muhammad Zahid Rifat | Federal and provincial budgets, as and when these are presented in the national and provincial legislatures by the respective governments for...
Saudi Arabia to become third partner in CPEC but what about China?
News Analysis | Pakistan has taken China into confidence over Saudi Arabia, Pakistan’s ally and a brotherly country, joining the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project...
How will the new government tackle SDGs? – Dr. Kalsoom Sumra
Dr. Kalsoom Sumra | The rising income inequalities, regional disparities and gender inequalities vindicate a longstanding demand by new government to localize 2030 agenda into...