The end of PML-N and PPP
Ajaz ul Haque | The Irony of Ironies - a former Prime Minister is sent to prison for corruption and a JIT serves a damning...
Russia & Israel: New rivals in Middle East? – M K Bhadrakumar
M K Bhadrakumar | It is over a month since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had announced that he was going to Moscow to meet...
What can Pakistan learn from China? – Farid A Malik
Dr. Farid A Malik | China and Pakistan are ‘Iron Brothers’ who have been working together for mutual gains. While the People’s Republic is poised...
Is Imran Khan confused?
Dr. Farid A Malik | In a world driven by technology, change is the only permanent feature. The government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) under the...
Efforts to return Syria’s Assad to Arab fold amount to hollow victory for autocrats – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | Two developments, the pending return of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to the Arab fold and protests in Sudan, Jordan, and Tunisia,...
Chabahar Port: The end of Gwadar?
Dr. Zafar Jaspal | India, Iran, and Afghanistan have been laboring to establish a new transit route. The new transit route would link Afghanistan and...
China: Using soft power to conquer the world – Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | China has been pursuing an ambitious economic agenda without flexing its military muscle in its neighbourhood and worldwide. Instead of...
Info wars against Pakistan: What should be our counter-strategy? – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | Over the past ten days, the local and international media (especially the social media) has been abuzz with talk of Finance Minister...
US troop withdrawals threaten to fuel greater, potentially problematic Gulf assertiveness – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | As far as Gulf leaders are concerned, President Donald J. Trump demonstrated with his announced US troop withdrawals from Syria and...
Pakistan to become Singapore or Syria—the choice is starker
Jan Achakzai | That old cliché, “Pakistan is facing worse challenges never seen before”, is more relevant today than ever before; economically failing state, dysfunction...
M. A. Jinnah: The savior of Indian Muslims
M Zafar Khan Safdar | “Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the recipient of devotion and loyalty seldom accorded to a man”. This was the glowing tribute that...
The rise of a ‘Pashtun Spring’: An open letter to Pashtuns
Farah Adeed | Dear Pashtuns, It has been more than a year since I wrote an open letter to you and addressed a very serious issue. In...