The ramifications of Saudi Arabia joining CPEC – Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The significance of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has been multiplied by Saudi Arabia’s inclination to join the project. The participation...
Reforming our madrassas – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | PTI’s 100-day plan is ambitious. It spans areas concerning governance, economy, agriculture, environment, social sector reform, and national security. And, truth be...
Battling it out at the UN: Potholes overshadow US-Iran confrontation – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | It’s easy to dismiss Iranian denunciations of the United States and its Middle Eastern allies as part of the Islamic republic's...
Pakistan’s Cold War Technology shrinks the effectiveness of India’s S-400 ABM System – Akash S Muhammad
Akash Shah | In March 2017, General David Perkins of the U.S army bragged in a military symposium about the success which one of the...
Money Laundering, Suo Motus and Zardari
Ali Tahir | Two years ago, Javed Khanani jumped of the eighth floor of an under-construction building owned by himself. The police declared it as...
Interventionists are addicted to interventionism – Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger | In an editorial opposing a U.S.-supported coup in Venezuela, the New York Times gets it right, mostly. Unfortunately, the Times’s editorial...
The bloody civilians – M Zafar Khan Safdar
M Zafar Khan Safdar | The total outlay of Pakistan’s budget for the year 2018-19 is Rs 5932 billion, whereas the resource availability during 2018-19...
Who owns the three-Avenfield flats? A fictional court answers – Raja Waqas Shabbir
Raja Waqas Shabbir | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s bail jubilated his supporters. Their opponents, the PTI’s reaction remains divided, some firmly believe that the...
“India & Pakistan: Saas-Bahu relationship?” – Maleeha Hashmey
Maleeha Hashmey | Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. The problem with the political jokes is that they...
Middle Eastern black swans dot China’s Belt and Road – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | If any one part of the world has forced China to throw its long-standing foreign and defense policy principles out the...
Imran Khan! Can he be Pakistan’s Nehru?
Ajaz Khan | “Imran Can’t”. That is how he was described in the 1970s when he graced the cricketing fields across the world. The rest,...
Figures speak louder than words – Muhammad Zahid Rifat
Muhammad Zahid Rifat | Federal and provincial budgets, as and when these are presented in the national and provincial legislatures by the respective governments for...