Imran and the IMF: Pakistan’s bailout dilemma

AFP | Once Pakistan's election winner Imran Khan forms a government, there will be little time to bask in his triumph: the country's next prime...

Big power competition in the Eastern Mediterranean: Is Trump missing the point?

James M. Dorsey | A Trump administration decision to sanction two key Turkish officials in retaliation for the continued detention of an American cleric coupled...

MQM-P, a difficult ally, decides to back the PTI-led government in the Center

News Analysis | The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) finally reached an agreement on Friday 3rd August. The former has agreed...

North Korea gets illegal oil, enlists Syria arms broker: UN report

AFP | North Korea has resorted to a "massive increase" of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil products at sea to evade UN sanctions and enlisted...

The Despicable American Media Coverage of Pakistan Elections

Sher Ali Tareen | The American mainstream media boasts a voracious appetite for caricaturing, simplifying, and neatly categorizing non-Western people and life, especially when it...

The deep state’s long enmity toward Iranians

Jacob G. Hornberger | The U.S. deep state’s hatred of the Iranian people goes back a long way, at least as far back as 1953....

India’s national register of citizens: Challenge to South Asian Identity?

Subhajit Naskar | The illusion of South Asian identity is equipped by discord among the community interests. Subsequently, Religious dogmatism helped identity consolidation which negates...

Trump threatens Turkey with sanctions: Moscow hopes he is serious!

M K Bhadrakumar | The frequency with which US President Donald Trump holds out threats to other countries is such that he is no longer...

Twelve schools attacked overnight in Diamer District

News Analysis | In what seems to be acts of vandalism and arson a dozen schools half of which are girl’s schools have been attacked...

Chinese-American engineer charged with stealing GE technology

AFP | A Chinese-American engineer faces charges of stealing valuable technology from General Electric, sneaking it out hidden in a picture of the sunset to...

Maulana Khadim Rizvi, a defeated firebrand speaker, to protest against alleged rigging

News Analysis | The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has announced to hold a protest in Karachi on August 12 against the alleged rigging in the General...

Ivanka Trump: Family separations a ‘low point,’ media not the enemy

AFP | Ivanka Trump distanced herself Thursday from some of her father's most controversial policies and strident rhetoric, saying she is "vehemently against" family separations...