China is accused of pursuing a diplomatic policy of debt trap, which means luring poor countries into high-interest loan deals for building unsustainable infrastructure projects and when there is a financial crisis for repaying back the loan.

Saudi Arabia’s proposition of a more tolerant ‘moderate’ Islam is further called into question by its failure to legalize non-Muslim worship and the opening of non-Muslim houses of worship in the kingdom as well as its equation of atheism with terrorism, laments Dr. James M Dorsey.

According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, Pakistan saw 319 terrorism-related incidents in 2020 and 169 associated deaths of civilians. For want of systemic singular response to counter-terrorism in Pakistan, one has to refer to foreign material of comparable jurisdictions.

Pakistan cannot afford to have an uncompetitive export-oriented sector. The country must stop following an outdated import-substitution policy that relies on levying protectionist duties as it has contributed to stagnancy in technological innovation and an anti-export bias.

On October 27, 1919, Khilafat Day was observed all over India and on November 23, 1919, the first Khilafat Conference met in Delhi. These events happened almost 102 years ago and are considered extremely important events in Muslim history.

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only created a global health crisis but has also created a learning crisis across the world for children and adolescents of school-going age. During the first wave of COVID-19, education systems in most countries including Pakistan were adversely affected

The notion of the use of force began from Stone Age, from its Neolithic period when people started dividing into groups and towns, possessing territory and attacking other groups or towns for either confiscating more parts or defending themselves in face of an attack.

American policymakers used the term "rogue states," to refer to a group of aggressively recalcitrant authoritarian countries which are ruled by irrational or crazy leaders who are inherently belligerent. The horrors of India, rushing to become an extremist Hindu state, don’t end here.

PM Imran Khan and his cabinet are providing many justifications for the soaring price inflation: a spike in global commodity markets, flawed policies of earlier governments and their corruption, etc. but none is convincing enough for the public.

This deliberate design of having a weak judicial and penal system suits the cartels, rich and arrogant politicians as well as the establishment to carry on with the petty benefits without considering the long-term effects of their actions.

It symbolised that Delhi had convinced the Pentagon that it could serve as a counterweight to China in the Pacific theatre, while also destabilising China’s economic interest across the region—particularly, the CPEC project.

Naveed Ahsan Nadeem writes an open letter to the sitting Prime Minister of Pakistan as an ordinary citizen who has always been his well-wisher, despite past differences over his politics. Despite PM's achievements, people are deeply frustrated with him and there's a tinge of regret.