Hybrid warfare against corruption
Ikram Sehgal | Anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) in line with Pakistan's action plan agreed with Financial Action Task Force (FATF),...
Israel and al-Qaeda open up new front in Golan Heights to avenge Syria’s gains in Deir ez-Zor
Adam Garrie | Syria’s total liberation of Deir ez-Zor city has been a short-lived victory as Israel and al-Qaeda opened up a new front in blitzkrieg-like...
Why Washington failed to bring peace in Afghanistan?
Ishaq Ali | Afghanistan has seen one of its worse bloody days in the previous week where more than 220 personnel of security forces and...
Iran’s snub to US has meaning for India
M K Bhadrakumar | Only Tehran could have punctured US President Donald Trump’s massive ego with just a delicate deflection by the wrist. It all...
Can football help end Gulf crisis?
James M. Dorsey | A target of massive Saudi investment, the Maldives severed diplomatic relations with Qatar hours after a Saudi-UAE-led alliance of largely financially...
Did Russia just reduce the threat of Indian-backed terrorism against Pakistan?
Andrew Korybko | Russia’s plan to build a pipeline connecting Iran, Pakistan and India greatly diminishes the chance that New Delhi will continue to support...
Does Chabahar matter?
Imtiaz Gul | Is the dispatch of the first Indian wheat gift to Afghanistan via Chabahar only a massive public relations gimmick or is it part...
Trump’s flattery won’t work with Xi Jinping
M K Bhadrakumar | The US President Donald Trump was the first world statesman to telephone his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping following the latter’s re-election to...
Is Pakistan ready to fight a Hybrid war?
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The adversaries have been successfully operating hybrid warfare techniques to bleed Pakistan. They failed to coerce or frighten Islamabad with...
Trump on the wrong side of history
Gen (r) Mirza Aslam Beg | American Secretary of States’ hop-over visit’ to Pakistan, on his way to India, was a crude diplomatic gesture of brow-beating...
The next Oscar goes to ‘Friend’s request’
Shiffa Yousafzai | The kind of pieces I write are about the subjects upon which I want my readers to ponder, for I believe they could...
Electables: Biggest impediment to change in Pakistan
Farid A Malik| Electables have proven to be the biggest impediment to change. They negate the basic concept of ballot driven democracy. Influence has always...