Pakistan once again opts to stand with a friend, Iran, over the USA

News Analysis | Foreign Minister of Iran, Javad Zarif, visited Pakistan as the first foreign dignitary to meet with Prime Minister Imran Khan and Foreign...

Pentagon moves to scrap $300 million in aid to Pakistan

AFP | The US military plans to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan due to Islamabad's lack of "decisive actions" in support of American...

Gangster-turned-lawmaker is new face of Mexican politics

AFP | Pedro Carrizales's body is a hodge-podge of scars and tattoos that tell the story of how he went from street-gang thug to Mexican...

US ends funding for UN Palestinian refugee agency

AFP | The United States announced it was halting funding for the United Nations' agency for Palestinian refugees Friday after declaring the organization was irredeemably...

The Significance of Pak-US military ties

News Analysis | In the first visit of a foreign delegation to Pakistan after the new government was formed, the chief of the US military...

STA-1: Impact on India’s military build-up – Dr. Zafar Jaspal

Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The Trump administration has been improving its strategic ties with India to check the economically rising China in Asia. The...

Trump insists White House a ‘smooth-running machine’

AFP | President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that his daughter played no role in the abrupt departure of his top lawyer and pushed back at...

Will Trump ramp up the Korea crisis again? – Jacob G. Hornberger

Jacob G. Hornberger | Despite the much-ballyhooed meeting between President Trump and North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June, things are not...

Renegotiating Iran’s nuclear deal- Sabena Siddiqi

Sabena Siddiqi | Preparing for the long haul of U.S. sanctions ahead, Iran is trying to insulate itself and keep a “resistance economy” afloat. Already...

Mexico’s US trade deal a win-win for president-elect

AFP |  It is still early to declare winners and losers in the new US-Mexican trade deal, but in Mexico it looks like an unexpected...

What to expect from the visit by US Secretary of State

News Analysis | Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State of the US, the counterpart to Pakistan’s foreign minister, is all set to visit Islamabad next...

Pakistan’s US challenge – Brig. Samson Sharaf

Brigadier Samson Simon Sharaf | Notwithstanding Geography and Geopolitics, the epitome of measuring national power is the leadership, national character, and morale. Pakistan now has...