Kashmir: India’s Human Rights violations from “pellet guns” to “Killer gangs”?
Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The situation in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) has been dreadful for three decades. The Indian intelligence agencies have been running...
Will Imran like Nawaz & others be entering PM House with dirty laundry?
Dr Farid A Malik | Amongst the elected Prime Minister’s (PM) of the country, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is rated in league with the first and...
Disruptive Impact of “Suo Motu Notices”: An Open Letter to Chief Justice
Imtiaz Gul | Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan! On June 22, we were on our way to Kabul for an important Track II meeting with...
Khan’s politics of courting the ‘electables’; will it work?
Saad Rasool | As politics, in Pakistan, enters its home-stretch for the 2018 general elections, there is a palpable sense of nervousness across our political...
Distinguishing vigorous critique from disproportionate ambush: Imran Khan and his critics
Sher Ali Tareen | Of all mainstream political leaders, Imran Khan deserves the fiercest and most vigilant critique whenever he errs or transgresses on any...
A Cup of Tea
Hasan Nadeem | Tea is one of the oldest beverages in the world, still used today after centuries. Tea is the only beverage which shares...
CPEC: Pakistan’s ‘Chinanization’ or Colonization?
Adnan Qaiser | It is said that in 1960 when Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong sent off General Gengbiao, his second ambassador to Pakistan, he advised...
SC stopped us from becoming a “Gangster Heaven”
Ikram Sehgal | Consensus on matters ensuring security and welfare of the common man is rarely achieved by our parliament. Such unanimity is only displayed...
National interests and geopolitical factors in Russia-Pakistan Relations
Leonid Savin | Presentation text read at the international conference “The Seventy-year Jubilee of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the USSR/Russia and Pakistan”, Russian...
Geopolitics and geo-economics of belt and road
Babar Zehri | The key Chinese foreign policy-makers, including the whole standing committee of the politburo, summoned a landmark conference dedicated to ‘Peripheral Diplomacy’. It...
Evaluation of democracy and forthcoming challenges to next government
Muhammad Bilal Abdul Ghani | The 14th National Assembly completed its term on May 31st, 2018. It is a landmark achievement in the democratic history...
The bizarre Trump-Kim Summit
Jacob G Hornberger | Overlooked in all of the hullabaloo over the summit in North Korea between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong...