Saudi Arabia, an emerging sports power- Aamir Bilal
Aamir Bilal | Historically, Saudi Arabia has played a limited role in international competitive sports. Apart from the interest in Saudi soccer clubs, there has...
A practical manifestation of India’s exacerbating acrimony towards Pakistan
Merwah Qureshi | Pakistan and India since their inception share an antagonistic relation. India has always tried to make Pakistan the victim of her regional...
India’s forgotten Maoist insurgency in the red corridor
Taimur Khan | On June 27, 2017, the FARC of Colombia handed over its guns/weapons to the United Nations (UN), making the Indian Maoists the...
Nawaz & Maryam conviction: Has NAB set the stage for a good appeal?
Khurram Saeed | Maryam Nawaz - daughter of ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and till Aug 2017 the most powerful woman in Pakistan - thunders from...
Pakistan’s financial crisis puts OBOR in jeopardy
James M Dorsey | Increased Pakistani dependence on China to help it avert resorting to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avoid a financial and...
Modi’s India exposed: Hindu extremism seeps into universities
Merwah Qureshi | India is going through the dark age of extremism and fanaticism. With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the center the Hindutva...
Post-Avenfield case scenario: Jinnah’s message for Imran Khan
Farah Adeed | “You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other...
‘Powerless NPT’ fails to denuclearize the world
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The landmark Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on July 1, 2018. Theoretically, it remains committed to riding...
Rising tides of intolerance and Hindu extremism in India
Taimur Khan | In the words of Col. (R) Gurnam Singh, an ex-Indian Army officer and renowned security analyst, "there is a profoundly disquieting myth...
Is NAB becoming effective again?
Ikram Sehgal | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) came into existence on 16 Nov 1999. Simultaneously Special Investigation Wings (SIWs)were raised from the ISI to...
How politicians use media to win elections?
Samra Saeed | 2018 General Elections of Pakistan are round the corner. All political parties have started to decorate their stalls to sell dreams called...
Pakistan’s democracy test: An Indian view
Subhajit Naskar | As the day of General election approaches Pakistan, the face-off between the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and state institutions is intensifying....