Trump incapacitated from electioneering

“October surprises” are a common occurrence in the electoral politics of the US when elections are only weeks away in November and canvassing of...

Trump or Biden – Who is best for Pakistan?

President Trump foretold that the pandemic was nearing its end. Yet, he and his Mrs are now perhaps USA’s most prominent coronavirus patients. Just...

Op-ed: Fake news, economic disappointment drive people towards ‘saviors’

“The thing that strikes me more and more…is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time…I mean that almost nobody seems...

Do schools kill creativity?

I must state from the outset that the title of my current subject is derived from an opinion entitled “Creative thinking and our school...

The case of Trump vs American deep state

The US presidential contests are never smooth-sailing affairs. But this year’s presidential race has been far more unpredictable and tumultuous even by the American...

USA taking India for granted: Allowing Pakistan & China to humiliate India

India was humiliated in the 1962 Indo-China war during the Congress party rule of Prime Minister Nehru. However, there was at least one satisfaction...

The Nagorno-Karabakh crisis: Iran’s calculated involvement

Iran has an extremely rare opportunity to greatly improve its regional reputation by offering to host peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan to replace...

Op-ed: PML-N, PPP stalling accountability process by manipulating system

The accountability process is not moving mainly because of the planned delays by the accused. The PML(N) and PPP (Zardari) policy of stalling the...

Op-ed: Abdullah Abdullah is more a ‘son of the soil’ than US-bound Ghani

The total military expenditure in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001 is $822bn, this includes the US Department of Defense, State Department, USAID...

Time to revisit Hobbes’s social contract

Clouds of despondency have taken over the entire country for the last few days as reports unveiled myriad of cases of human violation taking...

Op-ed: A focus on digital connectivity in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

China has been a strong player in the political, military and economic affairs of the Asia-Pacific region; the Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI) is, then, a...

Babri Mosque case: Indian courts are no longer immune to Hindutva frenzy

All the 32 accused, including LK Advani, in the Babri Mosque demolition case have been acquitted by the special CBI court in Lucknow on...