Gulf-Israel Accord: The Kings Have No Clothes
In a solemn ceremony at the White House today, President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of UAE and...
Op-ed: Understanding the eighteenth amendment
Collectively drafted by the parliament in 2010, following two years of considerations by a parliamentary advisory committee, the eighteenth Amendment essentially redesigned the 1973...
Is Trump the frenemy of the Islamic world?
In the Republican primaries of the 2016 US presidential elections, Mitt Romney severely castigated Trump, calling him a phony and a fraud. When Trump...
Tackling rape: Our national habit is to weep after every tragedy
Another rape case, another uproar in the media - but the fact of the matter is that this is not the first case and...
Op-ed: Saudi gestures signal kingdom’s endorsement of Arab rapprochement with Israel
The odds are that Saudi Arabia is not about to formalize relations with Israel. But the kingdom, with its image tarnished by multiple missteps,...
Op-ed: Impacts of CPEC on Asian region and beyond
The comprehensive development deal between Pakistan and China (CPEC) not only creates strategic and economic connectivity between these two countries but also has the potential...
China has humiliated India on the Ladakh border by acquiring Indian territory
India was hoping that something positive would come out from the talks between the Foreign Ministers of India and China at Mosco on September...
Of shattered dreams and life-long trauma: Impact of motorway incident
Motorways are thought to be the best and secure means of communication in changing modern civilizations. With change in world dynamics, motorways have come...
Op-ed: Pakistan India trade situation
I was recently invited to a (webinar) conference organized by the CRRID (Centre for Rural Research and Industrial Development) management, India, to participate on...
Op-ed: To catch rapists, Pakistanis need to stop blaming and start supporting each other
Reprehensible, deplorable, despicable, extremely repugnant, and totally unforgivable, indefensible, outrageous, and non-compoundable is the offence rape. However detestable it is, it is still an...
Op-ed: Punjab Police deserves commendation for solving motorway rape case
An unidentified woman was raped in front of her crying children on the motorway this week. She succumbed to the perpetrators to save her...
Op-ed: China might throw weight behind Khalistan movement as India uses Tibetan soldiers in border dispute
There is a general impression that activists advocating for Khalistan (an independent country for Sikhs), are operating mainly from Canada and the UK. However...