The unplanned cities of Pakistan: A problem without solution

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar | Pakistan is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in South Asia and the share of the urban population has risen...

Rethinking the education paradigm – Saad Rasool

Saad Rasool | In matters of State and politics, the ‘urgent’ has an uncanny ability to crowd out the ‘important’. Stuck in the urgency of...

Platinum Birthday felicitations Tariq Ali – Saud Bin Ahsen

Saud Bin Ahsen | The sun rises later and later now, and I, who only a month ago could sit with latte every morning watching...

Will Conflict with Iran help bail MBS out of his troubles? – James M Dorsey

James M Dorsey | Embattled Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could prove to be not only a cat with nine lives but also one...

Pakistan needs to welcome Science!

Farah Adeed | Bertrand Russell, a renowned British philosopher, and a prolific writer wrote a very interesting book in 1952, titled The Impact of Science on...

A gruesome murder bares world powers’ flawed policies

James M Dorsey | Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome murder raises fundamental questions that go far beyond Middle Eastern geopolitics. They go to the risks...

Will Imran Khan bring much-promised change – Farid A Malik

Farid A Malik | ‘Old habits die hard’ is an age old saying. Adult changes are almost impossible as it involves a lot of unlearning....

US squeezing Iran: Difficult choices for Pakistan?

Najmuddin A. Shaikh | The EU, France, Germany, China, and Russia; signatories of the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) and the IAEA, which...

Is Pakistan a free country?

Dawood Ghazanavi | The month of October marks the 17th anniversary of the US-led war in Afghanistan. It is the longest in American history. In...

‘More to do’ is the new ‘do more’

Imran Jan | General Joseph Votel, Commander of the US Central Command, said of Pakistan, “I do acknowledge that they have done a lot in...

Khashoggi crisis highlights why investment in Asia is more productive than in the Middle East – James M Dorsey

James M. Dorsey | Growing Western political and corporate reluctance to be associated with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the suspected killing of journalist...

Pakistan favors open diplomacy in response to India’s coercive diplomatic Approach

Merwah Qureshi | Pakistan and India do not share the warmth of friendship and good neighborhood owing to the mutual mistrust inherited since inception. Whenever,...
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