Trump smart wars: Afghanistan exit as blessing

Sidra Khan | According to Hal Brands, professor of global affairs at Johns Hopkins University, Donald Trump is not a political bolt out the blue, rather...

How the Afghan Taliban defeated USA ?

M K Bhadrakumar | Surely, the recent Moscow conference on Afghanistan (November 9) brought to light that the peace talks will get a big fillip...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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