Covid-19: Welcome the heatwave crisis amid Ramadan

This year the holy month comes to us with double difficulties: The social distancing, curfews and closure of shops, though hopefully loosening in the...

Coronavirus: United States replaced by China?

Kurt M. Campbell, an American diplomat and political analyst declared Coronavirus pandemic a “Suez moment” for the United States. The Suez Canal fiasco of...

US-Saudi oil clash breeding a larger conflict

The coronavirus pandemic and the global economic meltdown forced Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Russia to call time out...

India emboldened by US retrenchment

India’s growing provocative posture towards Pakistan and its threat of pinning the Pakistan army for “maintaining peace”, is a reflection in large measure of...

How Pakistan became safer than New York

Let me go out on a limb and say something that could come back and haunt me. Pakistan is doing well at managing the...

India’s embrace of “Economic Nationalism” is directed against China

India's new International Investment Policy is a major shift in regional dynamics; it appears to be designed to restrict Chinese investments to encourage US and western inflows as part of Trump's vision of "US-India Comprehensive Strategic partnership"

Indo-French alliance hurting South Asian strategic stability

Seeing a fighter aircraft adorned with flowers, with coconuts being put in front of its windshield and sprinkled with Holy water from Ganga is...

COVID-19: Chinese envoy’s startling confession would shake the world

The search for the genesis of COVID-19 is developing into an epic story. Thanks to the insinuations by the US President Donald Trump —...

Distribution of donations & What we are doing wrong

A few days ago, I received an unexpected text from my friend, Arshad; expressing the need to start a donation drive to support daily...

Opinion: Businessmen should be kept away from politics

Business and politics cannot co-exist as they have no commonalities. While a businessman never misses an opportunity to make money, a politician has to...

The Legacy of General Waheed Kakar

Abdul Waheed Khan was born into a Pashtun family of the Kakar tribe (which originally migrated from Zhob, Baluchistan) in the suburbs of Peshawar...

US-Iran tensions: Is Iran deliberately playing with fire?

The United States and Iran, acting on perceptions of one another that seem to be engraved in stone, are on a collision course that...