A looming threat: Pakistan running dry

Rafay Waqar | Water is a scarce resource in Pakistan and for that, Pakistan was declared a water stress country in 2005. Over 90 %...

Pakistan: “Rule of Law” without “Just Society”?

Dr. S. Zulfiqar Gilani | Although bandied about for as long as one remembers, only recently has the rule of law started being enforced for...

How the 26-year-old Tamil Tiger Insurgency was Defeated

Sarmad Ishfaq | The article deliberates how Sri Lanka militarily bested the Tamil Tigers with what is known as the Rajapaksa or Sri Lankan Counterinsurgency...

Poet of East: through the lens of Iqbal Museum?

Muhammad Zahid Rifat | The ever-grateful nation is celebrating 141st birth anniversary of great thinker and poet Dr. Muhammad Iqbal on November 9, 2018 (today) to...

UAE, Saudi sense convergence with Syria – M K Bhadrakumar

M K Bhadrakumar | The reported plan by the United Arab Emirates to reopen its embassy in Damascus shortly leads to a startlingly new alignment on the...

The enduring name and philosophy of Iqbal

M Zafar Khan Safdar | The advent of the 20th century marked the consolidation of national states based on regional fidelities. Reason replaced religion as...

The Americas: Caught between two evils – Jacob G. Hornberger

Jacob G. Hornberger | You can’t help but feel sorry for Latin Americans. They inevitably end up with either a right-wing “capitalist” dictator or a...

What are the cornerstones of Pakistan’s maritime security strategy?

Rashid Nazir Choudhary | Preservation and maintenance of stable maritime order, in the Indian Ocean particularly in the Arabian Sea, is one of the cornerstones...

New World Order: National Interest supersedes all ethnic & religious identity? – James M Dorsey

James M Dorsey | A global rise of nationalist and populist tendencies has not only given anti-migrant, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and racist tendencies a new lease...

American troops are not dying for God, family, or country – Jacob G. Hornberger

Jacob G. Hornberger | This past weekend, Major Brent Taylor was killed in action in Afghanistan, where the U.S. government has now been waging war...

Did the Russians influence my vote? – Jacob G. Hornberger

Jacob G. Hornberger | I voted Libertarian yesterday, and the New York Times has me really worried. In an article yesterday entitled “Russians Meddling in...

Bureaucracy: Between whims and rules

Muhammad Zahid Rifat | Public servants or in other words bureaucracy is an important pillar of the government; be it at national or provincial level....