Dhaka seeks balance of strategic ties
Developments like government-to-government deals worth $24.45 billion and private investment worth $13.6 billion, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s milestone visit to Dhaka, upgraded the...
Pakistan’s underdog businessman gearing up for comeback
Up until the mid-2000s, the Yousuf Dewan Companies (YDC) was one of the biggest business conglomerates in Pakistan. It had business interests in sugar,...
The outrage media’s war games
THE smoke-filled newsrooms of English dailies in the Dubai of the 1980s where a clutch of newspapers had just debuted should normally have been...
Cyril Almeida’s Story Points To Old Fault Lines And New Strains In Pakistan Army-Govt relationship
Ayesha Siddiqa | The media in Pakistan and outside was abuzz for some 48 hours over a story published by the English newspaper Dawn, regarding a...
Thousands of People Have Been ‘Displaced by Fighting’ in Eastern Burma
Karen and government-backed militia are reportedly fighting for control of an area where a major dam is being built Fighting over the construction of a...
Afghan Forces, Their Numbers Dwindling Sharply, Face a Resurgent Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan — Outgunned and surrounded by Taliban fighters in a chronic combat zone of southern Afghanistan, the police officers and soldiers thought they...
Scotland Yard drops charges against Altaf Hussain? Why?
Moeed Pirzada | Scotland Yard, the investigative arm of British Police has dropped all charges related to money laundering against MQM leader Altaf Hussain. Charges...
Nawaz, Modi, Dawn & Pakistan Army: What is happening & Why?
Pakistanis, Indians and the world at large may disagree on many many things; its almost impossible to count how many, but on one thing,...
Chidambaram Interview Dropped as NDTV Censors News that ‘Compromises National Security’
“Our Army cannot be doubted or questioned or used for political gains,” channel staffers are told in an internal email. The graphic that played out...
Face to face with Bin Laden
Speaking exclusively – and chillingly – to Robert Fisk, the ‘rebel leader’ openly plotted terror against the West. Osama bin Laden, the fiercest opponent of the...
Why a jobless GDP growth could spoil Narendra Modi’s 2019 run
Union finance minister Arun Jaitley now exercises more caution when he speaks about India's economic performance during foreign trips. The 'we-are-the-best-and-everything-is-fine-here' tone has changed...
On Their Own, Afghan Forces Strain to Combat Taliban Offensives
KABUL, Afghanistan — As Afghan forces struggle to break a weeklong Taliban siege of central neighborhoods in the provincial capital of Kunduz, insurgents are...