Of oil,economy,and Israel:US stakes in Syria
Nauman Sadiq l Washington’s interest in the Syrian civil war is partly about ensuring Israel’s regional security and partly it is about doing the bidding...
Panic has set in… what in the world is going on?
GVS News Analysis | The JIT’s investigation of the Prime Minister and his family is about to reach a crescendo and the nation is witnessing...
Let’s counter “The Contractor”
Ali Imran Jaffri | In one of his recent tweets, Imran Khan urged every Pakistan to read the recently released autobiography cum an account of...
John McCain leads high powered U.S delegation’s visit to Islamabad
The high-powered visiting American Congressional delegation spearheaded by Senator John McCain on Sunday emphasized the need for both India and Pakistan to resolve the...
Panama Case: should Supreme Court render the final judgement?
Saad Rasool | The Panama Leaks case is about to reach its much-awaited crescendo. And for the second time, over the past one hundred days,...
Native air warriors: JF-17 vs HAL Teja
Najam ul Hassan | An arms race between Pakistan and India is in full swings now. Both nations are locked in a seemingly endless struggle...
Has Russia entered NATO’s bedroom?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Can we say a “terrible beauty” is born in the NATO’s underbelly — to borrow the words from the Irish-English poet...
Is India all-set for Himalayan blunder 2.0?
News Analysis | In a defiant rejoinder to China, Indian Defense Minister Arun Jatley has said that India of 2017 is different from that of...
How Raymond Davis helped track Osama Bin Laden down?
Nauman Sadiq l Six weeks before the killing of Osama Bin Laden, on 16 March 2011, a CIA’s private contractor Raymond Davis, who had previously...
Of promises, meddling and delusions: the story of Pak-USA ties
Saleem Akhtar Malik l May 1, 1960: While I was still enjoying those heady childhood days ,the Soviet Union had scored a propaganda hit over...
The Afghan marsh enveloping the region
Saad Yousaf | Since the 2001 US invasion, the rapidly changing dynamics of the Afghan insurgency have stumped the strategic elite of regional countries. The...
The Pakistan diaspora,economy and the Gulf crisis
Saleem Akhtar Malik l A little more than a century after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire,the Arab Middle East looks as fragile as the...