Confront the Challenges: Engage Afghanistan, Protect CPEC
Maria Bastos | Two of Pakistan’s foreign policy core themes: CPEC and Afghanistan are passing through a critical moment and will soon become the most...
Consequences of abrogating Iran nuclear deal
James M. Dorsey | US President Donald J. Trump’s targeting of a two-year-old agreement curtailing Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons could not only spark...
Motivation and justification in the Las Vegas Massacre
Jacob G. Hornberger | Ever since the Las Vegas massacre, investigators have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what Stephen Paddock’s...
Russia: The new master of Middle East
M K Bhadrakumar | The remark Wednesday by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential envoy for the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov offering Moscow’s mediation for a...
A master-plan to balkanize Pakistan – Part III
Asif Haroon Raja | War against the Soviets Fearing a takeover by the fundamentalists, 40th Soviet Army intervened and occupied Afghanistan on December 27, 1979, killed Hafiz...
Pakistan’s Internal Power Struggle: Who is running Pakistan?
Yasmeen Aftab Ali | Ideally, it should be the government duly elected by the people. However, the government in Pakistan instead of being democratic in...
Why is US against CPEC?
Rabia Khaliq | Pak-US relations have been marred by mistrust and suspicions. However, this bilateral relationship is witnessing another downward tendency since Donald Trump became...
Will ‘IoT’ technology revolutionize Pakistan’s healthcare
Farkhi Hassan | As a digitally aware person living, on the digital frontier in Pakistan, I follow the changes new technologies are bringing very closely,...
24% Increase in Sindh’s education budget; what will it achieve?
Zainab Husain | Chief Minister of Sindh Murad Ali Shah placed education as a priority in his budget speech for 2017-18 presented to Sindh Assembly...
Taiwan’s President says it will not seek war with China
Jumel G. Estrañero | Old friends, old enemies. Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen pledged on 9 October (Monday) to bolster the island’s military but added it...
Can military rule save Pakistan now?
Mudassir Saeed Laghari | Recently, former military dictator Pervaiz Musharraf made headlines. In an interview with BBC on Aug 2, he lauded the rules of...
Should Aung San Suu Kyi be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize?
Nasir Azeem | "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ~Martin Luther King Jr. Although the tragedy of Myanmar's Rohingya Community has been unfolding for...