Learning from Vietnam’s economic experience -I- Dr. Omer Javed

Dr. Omer Javed | The PM often advises the people to become the ‘shaheen’ (or eagle) of Iqbal (the national poet), occupying the heights in...

No Big (IMF) Deal!

Dr. Omer Javed | In a recent interview of BBC’s Hard Talk, the Finance Minister (FM) was told by the anchor person that his government...

Saudi Arabia and the West’s right wing: A dubious alliance – James Dorsey

James M. Dorsey | Traditionally focussed on ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim Islam, Saudi funding in the era of crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has been streamlined...

India desperately trying to mend fences with China: But why?

M K Bhadrakumar | Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hurried 36-hour visit to Singapore to attend the 13th East Asia Summit, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and...

Naya Pakistan, Imran, chaos, happiness, Saudis, xenophobia, riches, pigs and taxes; let 2019 begin!

Amer Zafar Durrani | Friends, foes, and people! Welcoming 2019 and leaving 2018 behind, I cannot think of a single event that mattered more than...

Export control of cyber-security software and tools

Afeera Firdous | Many computer security experts have celebrated the development of Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) in which it revised and added new export control rules...

Jinnah, the role model for young lawyers 

Abdul Rasool Syed | The world knows Jinnah as the founding father of one of the biggest Muslim countries of the world called Pakistan. His...

We have seen your faces – Saad Rasool

Saad Rasool | The JIT Report submitted before the honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan – concerning Asif Zardari and the Omni Group – is perhaps...

No one more desperate for peace in Afghanistan than Pakistan, says Nasim Zehra

Sitwat Bokhari & Saddam Hussein | Afghanistan, for the first time in its almost 40 years' long conflict, is perhaps seeing a silver lining in the...

BLA commander’s presence in Kandahar proves Afghan ‘safe heavens’ to subvert Balochistan & CPEC

Jan Achakzai | The death of Aslam Achu, a commander of the terrorist group BLA, in Kandahar vindicated Pakistan's consistent position that RAW & NDS...

End of Zardari’s era: What is the way forward?

Farah Adeed | Pakistan is an interesting country where the ruling elite is among the richest individuals of the world but its masses are still...

Pakistan’s AMAN 2019: “Together for Peace”

S M Hali | Pakistan Navy is organizing a multi-nation naval exercise in the North Arabian Sea in February 2019. This is the sixth exercise...