This was General Election 2018 and not a general(‘s) selection
Shiffa Yousafzai | NY times said Military’s influence is casting a shadow over Pakistan’s elections, Foreign Affairs asked if democracy is dying in Pakistan, while...
The fly or the honeybee? – Haider Mehdi
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | Imam Ali ibn e Abi Talib, said anybody looking for an evil (evil example) is like a fly that leaves...
India’s hybrid warfare against Pakistan
Yasir Malik | War has been a recurring feature of international politics since the very emergence of the nation-state system in the 17th century. However,...
What does Imran Khan’s fight for Kashmir means to Kashmiris?
Murtaza Shibli | Ghulam Nabi Ganai, a 67-year-old retired executive engineer, is elated about Imran Khan’s victory. As I enter his home in Frisal, a...
Lack of global leadership spurs instability in the Middle East
James M. Dorsey | With multiple Middle Eastern disputes threatening to spill out of control, United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar...
Aliens did not beat PMLN in elections, the common man did
Bushra Zafar | It was a hot and sultry morning, and I was part of the long queue outside the polling station in one of...
Imran Khan: From cricket to Prime Minister’s house
Dr. Saad Shafqat | It took Imran Khan two decades, but Pakistan’s disillusionment with the same old politicians and the Army’s fondness for the ‘Kaptaan’...
Saudi oil shipment halt: A potential watershed in the Yemen war
James M. Dorsey | A spike in oil prices as a result of a temporary halt in shipments through the strategic Bab el Mandeb strait may be...
The Match and the Tournament!
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | It's the last ball of the match and this time Imran has hit it clean out of the ground! It's...
Cooperating for mutual security
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Politically stable, economically prosperous and militarily secure Afghanistan is in the interest of the entire region. The transnational terrorist organizations...
Post election behaviour: Burying the hatchet
Tahir Ali Khan | Hopefully when these lines appear, 105.9 million Pakistani voters –59.2mn male and 46.7mn female– will have voted to elect Members of...
Vote and dimensions within
Dr. Zeeshan Khan | The question of regionalism is as old as the 1940 Lahore resolution where Pakistan was presented as a collection of “sovereign”...