MBS’s Khashoggi bullet: An insight into Saudi strategic thinking – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | Continued, albeit the slower-paced US and Turkish leaks potentially provide insight into far more than the circumstances of the October killing...
Back to square one – A bid for peace in Afghanistan
Sufian Qazi | In October 2001, after the United States carried out heavy bombing raids on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s...
Decline of the ideas industry – Farid A Malik
Dr. Farid A Malik | There is a worldwide decline in the ‘ideas industry’. No one is thinking about the present and future of mankind....
Extension of military courts – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | The tenure of ‘military courts’ is coming to an expiry, on 30th March 2019. And Pakistan is once again confronted with the...
Enemy at the gates
Dr Zafar Khan Safdar | This neither is about cold-blooded killing of a family in Sahiwal, nor concerning forced-disappearance of fellow-citizens by state authorities. Neither...
Piecing together Pakistan’s education puzzle
Maha Dania Qazi | If we wish to accomplish progress in the education sector a major part of the effort should be to make teacher...
Myth of military business
Humayun Raja | Few months back, former honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mian Saqib Nisar had asked DHA authorities that which army in the world...
Netanyahu-Modi duo: A lethal combination
Abdul Rasool Syed | Modi’s visit to Israel on 4th July 2017 hit the headlines of national and international newspapers. It was the historic step...
Social media: Pakistan’s new challenge?
Asif Haroon Raja | When I was serving as Director Psychological Operations (Psy Ops) in GHQ way back in the early 1990s, I had the...
Can Iran help reach a lasting peace in Afghanistan?
Fatemeh Aman | Progress has been reported in peace talks between US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban, but without the participation of the Afghan government, it seems...
Imran Khan: The only hope for Pakistan?
Farah Adeed | Freedom of speech is considered one of the core values of a genuine democracy. The centrality of freedom of speech in a democratic...
Reviving the ‘loss-making’ public sector enterprises
Humayun Akhtar Khan | With public finance in disarray for decades, it is only right for the government to find ways to fill the gap...