Op-ed: Will Biden presidency risk plunging the world into a catastrophic third world war?
A joint American-Israeli program, involving a series of short-of-war clandestine strikes, aimed at taking out the most prominent generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards...
PIA, Reko Diq & K Electric: Mistakes made while contracting with foreign companies
He was an ex-PAF, a PIA jumbo pilot, and above all, a known upright, honest man who, while signing any paper was so detail-oriented...
Banned books: The unhealthy relationship between censorship and literature
Whether it is the Records Department spitting out fiction in Oceania, the Afsana Department in Yoknapotawaha ‘creating’ stories in less than three minutes, or...
Shaping Palestinian politics: UAE may have upper hand in its competition with Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t miss a beat during his address to the United Nations General Assembly, insisting that he, unlike the UAE...
Op-ed: India one of the major players in Afghanistan’s domestic and foreign affairs
India’s presence in the recently commenced intra-Afghan peace talks signals that she wants to play a meaningful role in a post war Afghanistan. However,...
The UAE-Israel deal’s historicity is in the fine print
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed walked away from this month’s White House signing ceremony with...
President Kennedy’s handling of conflict in Vietnam
Though not extending to aggression, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower (in office 1953-1961) instituted and supported the sometimes brutal methods of the Republic of...
Op-ed: There is no legal basis for two-finger virginity testing on women
2020 will go down in history as the year in which gendered discourse frequently saw the light of day in Pakistan. From the debate...
Op-ed: The irreplaceable Usman Buzdar
Usman Buzdar is a rare breed of politicians; one who doesn’t mind anything, who doesn’t disobey any order, who doesn’t feel threatened by anyone,...
Rise of Trumpism and geoeconomic pivot to China
Though lacking intellect and often ridiculed for frequent spelling errors on Twitter timeline, such as “unpresidented” and “covfefe,” implying he gets his news feed...
Tale of two emergencies: Polio and Covid-19 through IMB lens (Part 2)
In the same report, the IMB made a recommendation for a GPEI governance review in order to make it more robust, transparent, efficient and...
Tale of two emergencies: Polio and Covid-19 through IMB lens (Part 1)
Independent monitoring board for Polio (IMB) is a neutral, independent high profile London based entity that is mandated to scrutinize and judge the Polio...