Pakistan China relation: friendship turned into business?

Dr. Farid A. Malik | ‘Tie Ge Men’ (Real Iron Brothers); that is how the Pak-China friendship is described. Pakistan was the first non-communist country...

The decline of Model United Nations

M. Usama Khawar | A Model United Nations conference based in Karachi is boasting of keeping a prize of 100,000 rupees along with a motorcycle...

JIT report: The road to a stronger Pakistan

Jawad Falak | There was a high level of focus on the much-awaited decision on Panama case in the Supreme Court. Pakistan’s masses waited with...

Gulf crisis: Wests keen eye on strategic and economic benefits

M. K. Bhadrakumar | The failure of the mission to the Gulf by the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to resolve the rift between Qatar and...

Can the SC disqualify the PM (and Maryam Nawaz) without referring the matter to trial court?

Saad Rasool | What Dr. Shahid Masood calls ‘Operation Dhabardoos’, seems to be well under way. Braving through a barrage of criticism and character assassination, the...

Identity Crisis: Who is Pakistani and who isn’t?

Nauman Sadiq | #PakistanTurns70 There are two contrasting styles of debating an issue: those who prefer normative arguments, and those who choose a descriptive line of...

An open letter to a lackey !

Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | The cat was out of JIT's bag earlier this week. The findings flabbergasted one and all, for many believed that...

Encounter of justice or fair play? —Pakistan’s Judicial Order goes on trial.

Jan Achakzai | As the Supreme Court resumes the hearing of the Panama Case after the receipt of the JIT report on Monday, July 17th,...

The Gulf crisis: A coming out of small states

James M. Dorsey| Buried in the Gulf crisis are two major developments likely to shape future international relations as well as power dynamics in the...

Lessons to learn from Singapore

Saud Bin Ahsen| The month of August is significant as two nuclear-armed states celebrate their independence from British rule in 1947 and this year is...

Petro-Islam: The Genesis of Islamic Radicalism and Jihadism

Nauman Sadiq | The phenomena of Islamic radicalism all over the world is directly linked to Islamic madrassahs (religious seminaries) that are generously funded by...

Narratives galore on the Panama saga

Ghulam Mustafa | There's never a dull moment in Pakistan. Besides everything else, we have been part of PA -NA -MA Hungama ever since ICIJ...