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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Despite tremendous favours, Afghans find it hard to trust Pakistan. Here’s why!

Many Pakistanis wonder why there is such acrimony and deep suspicion among Afghans against them despite so many ‘favours’ to Kabul. After all, Islamabad...

NSA Moeed Yusuf’s interview is a reflection of ‘Naya Pakistan’

Over the past week, even as Pakistani media was consumed by the abhorrent (and self-destructive) tirades of Nawaz Sharif and his cohorts, an important...

Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict: There’s more to it than meets the eye

Fighting in the Caucasus between Azerbaijan and Armenia is about much more than deep-seated ethnic divisions and territorial disputes. It’s the latest clash designed,...

Op-ed: Mideast peace agreements with Israel are driven by political vested interests

News is circulating in political spheres about Oman and Sudan as the next countries in line to recognize Israel after UAE and Bahrain. These...

Who will win US Presidential elections 2020?

As the race for US Presidential elections 2020 enters a very important phase as November 3rd, the polls day draws nearer, President Donald Trump's...

Op-ed: Modi’s Hindutva ideology has failed India’s secularism

The sudden and complete failure of the Indian polity is at hand thanks to the relentless pursuit of Hindutva ideology. If criminal procedure act...

Op-ed: Trump is to politics what Shahid Afridi was to cricket

In the movie Training Day, there is this scene where Denzel Washington is reading his morning newspaper at a diner. A new police officer...

‘Neo-Ottomanism’ vs ‘Greater Armenia’: What caused the war in Nagorno-Karabakh?

The global pro-Armenian lobby has been propagating the infowar narrative that Turkey's policy of so-called “Neo-Ottomanism” is responsible for the Nagorno-Karabakh continuation war, and...

FATF: Pakistan’s chances of exiting the gray list?

Islamabad has been struggling to get off the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) gray list since 2018. However, internal and external environments have not...

Pakistan’s politics: Art of manipulating societal sentiment for personal aggrandizement

The past few weeks, in Pakistani politics, have been a revealing experience. They have laid bare the hypocrisy of our political system, and the...

Op-Ed: Opposition running ‘Democracy (Pvt) Ltd’ in the name of Democracy

The veneer of democracy, within our ‘democratic’ parties, is gradually (but surely) being demolished by a new generation of hereditary leaders across the opposition...

Book review: Exploring the underemphasized reflections on BRI

Political scientists Alan Chong and Quang Min Pham bring with their edited volume, Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020),...
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