The Motorway Incident: Horrific Enough to Compel a Permanent Solution?
Violence against women seems to have become a never-ending plague in Pakistan, with news stories about women getting harassed, assaulted, or raped coming out...
Op-ed: Western powers use media propaganda to control global economic order
Novichok must be the most cryptic and deceptive chemical placebo ever developed by the erstwhile super-power that exploded the world’s largest 50 megaton Tsar...
New Delhi lost its last chance to ‘Save Face’ before Beijing
India could have followed the Chinese Defense Ministry's suggestion to investigate the first-ever firearm discharge near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in almost...
Op-ed: US has assaulted rule of law by sanctioning ICC officials over Afghan war crimes probe
The United States has penalised the International Criminal Court for investigating war crimes in Afghanistan. In a bizarre but not unpredictable move, Washington has...
India’s goal of military modernization: Why India-Israel relations blossomed
In 1992, under PM Chandra Shekar’s administration, India forged diplomatic relations with Israel; adopting a course opposite from Mahatma Gandhis, who opposed the creation...
How China is traversing along Middle East’s ‘volatile’ fault lines
Here are two potential indicators of Chinese interest in moving ahead with a proposed US$400 billion economic and military cooperation agreement with Iran: a...
‘Won’t sell arms to Pakistan’: Is India dictating Russian foreign policy?
Indian media reported over the weekend that Russia promised Defense Minister Rajnath Singh that it won't sell arms to Pakistan out of respect for...
Who will answer for Karachi in the eternal court?
I had to travel to Karachi at the start of last week, for a few cases fixed before the honourable Sindh High Court. On...
Why India desires to actively contain China?
There's no longer any doubt that India seeks to actively “contain” China after the latest incident between Asia's two most populous countries over the...
Op-ed: It is time Pakistan replaced colonial methods of administration with modern management
Most civil litigation is frivolous and avoidable, as it is caused mainly because of the executive abuse. Instead of conceding, the colonial bureaucracy is...
Pearl Harbor: what convinced the Japanese military, that it was ‘now or never’?
By 1920, America had become by far the world's richest country, whose strength held sway over much of the Western hemisphere, and was stretching...
UAE-Israel deal a gamble for Palestinian peace: can the UAE succeed where others have failed?
The decision by the UAE to establish diplomatic relations with Israel keeps a negotiated solution with Palestine on life support. There is no indication...