The flaws in the master plan
Afrah Jamal | The master plan chalked out in a piece, ‘Calling Pakistan’s Bluff’ by Whitney Kassel and Philip Reiner in Foreign Affairs (14 July 2017) came laden with glaring...
The lion’s kingdom: What happened to the cricket that challenged him?
M. Usama Khawar | Once there was a lion called Nashreef, who lived in a jungle. Nashreef superseded other lions to become the King after...
Immigration, socialism produces more death and sufferings
Jacob G. Hornberger | Everywhere you look, socialism is in crisis. Not just in Venezuela, North Korea, and Cuba, but also right here in the...
Plot thickens in great game over post-ISIS Iraq and Syria
M K Bhadrakumar | The post-ISIS future of Iraq and Syria has been a topic of animated discussion among American think tankers, the assumption being...
The Gulf crisis: Small states battle it out (SSRN Working Paper Part 1)
James M. Dorsey | Abstract Buried in the Gulf crisis is a major development likely to reshape international relations as well as power dynamics in the...
Disqualification without trial?
Saad Rasool | The three-member implementation bench of the honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan has reserved its judgment in perhaps the most publicized case in...
India’s hybrid warfare in Pakistan
Anam Sheikh | Hybrid warfare is a form of fourth generation warfare that is more decentralized, fluid and asymmetrical in its nature. One can say...
US moves against Iran raise spectre of wider regional conflict
James M. Dorsey | US President Donald J. Trump. in a step that could embolden Saudi Arabia to move ahead with plans to destabilize Iran,...
US plan to (re)occupy Iraq faces resistance
M K Bhadrakumar | The US’s longstanding project to push for an independent Kurdistan in the oil-rich regions of northern Iraq and Syria in the...
Trump’s dictatorial travel ban to North Korea
Jacob G. Hornberger | Last Friday, President Trump issued a decree-law that prohibits Americans from traveling to North Korea. His justification for infringing on one...
Perhaps Khan was not a cricketer? Geo’s continuing love affair with IK
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | Just as the Panama case reaches its culmination point, the future of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hangs in the balance....
Postmodernism: A Realm Beyond Renaissance Humanism
Nauman Sadiq | There is a fundamental difference between scientism, or the scientific worldview, which is an ideology based on unproven hypotheses and the empirically-proven...