Will Trump ramp up the Korea crisis again? – Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger | Despite the much-ballyhooed meeting between President Trump and North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June, things are not...
Renegotiating Iran’s nuclear deal- Sabena Siddiqi
Sabena Siddiqi | Preparing for the long haul of U.S. sanctions ahead, Iran is trying to insulate itself and keep a “resistance economy” afloat. Already...
Crunch time in Pakistan – James Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | It’s crunch time in Pakistan. Resolving Pakistan’s financial crisis is likely to require newly appointed prime minister Imran Khan to not...
Government draft on Kashmir conflict resolution and its merits
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani | Human Rights Minister Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari has stated that she has prepared a ‘Conflict Resolution Draft’ on Kashmir and it...
The love-hate Khan relationship – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | Politics has a weird way of distributing people into ideological camps. ‘Ideological’ here is being used as a concession to describe the...
Mehreen Zara: Kettle calling the pot black?
Imran Jan | Mehreen Zahra-Malik wrote an Op-Ed piece for the Washington Post titled Who’s afraid of Imran Khan’s Pakistan? Almost everyone. She says Imran...
The ticklish history and process of electing Pakistan’s President
Muhammad Zahid Rifat | Pakistan is electing its 16th President on the 4th of September, 2018 as the incumbent Head of the State Mamnoon Hussain...
Playing politics with religion: Imran Khan puts himself between a rock and a hard place – James Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | Less than a week in office, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has made blasphemy one of his first issues, empowering militants...
Pakistan’s US challenge – Brig. Samson Sharaf
Brigadier Samson Simon Sharaf | Notwithstanding Geography and Geopolitics, the epitome of measuring national power is the leadership, national character, and morale. Pakistan now has...
New PM and democratic evolution
Dr. Zeeshan Khan | Democracy failed exceptionally quickly after independence because Pakistan possessed a weak and fragmented political party that was unable to resolve key...
Imran Khan: the leader
Farah Adeed | I still remember my M.Phil. A class where I was supposed to go through many articles, books, and reports, and to prepare power-point...
Why Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy isn’t much different from Barack Obama’s – M K Bhadrakumar
M K Bhadrakumar | United States President Donald Trump’s much-awaited policy speech on the way forward in Afghanistan was disappointing. It neither fulfilled his campaign...