Chinese pressure tactics put countries between a rock and a hard place – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | Recent Chinese pressure on Myanmar to approve a controversial dam project and the arrest in recent days in Kazakhstan of a...
Insurgencies in Iran, driven by poverty and discrimination
Fatemeh Aman | The Iranian government has long accused some of its neighboring states of using terrorism and insurgency to destabilize the country. There may...
Energy projects under CPEC: Financial lifeline for Pakistan
Saud Bin Ahsen | Pakistan’s energy crisis, emanating from a significant gap between generation and supply became acute in the 1990s. By 2006, the gap...
Baluchistan: The heart of Ajit Doval doctrine
Abdul Rasool Syed | With the assumption of country’s top office, premier Modi, infamous for his hawkish inclination, kicked off a Machiavellian campaign to upset...
Peace prospects for Pakistan: Time to set boundaries with demands
Alia Sarfraz & Junaid S. Ahmad | If you do not ask, you do not get a seat at the table. As with any abusive...
Pakistan-India standoff: The role of Israel, US, and Beyond – Part-I
Sabtain Ahmed Dar | On 14th February, hardly a few hours had passed since the Pulwama attack and no thorough investigation had been done by...
Iran trusts Imran Khan but will verify the promise – M K Bhadrakumar
M K Bhadrakumar | Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani received a phone call from Pakistan PM Imran Khan late in the evening on March 9, which...
Medical treatment abroad – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | Even as the world waits, with bated breath, about the outcome of an (ongoing) stand-off between two nuclear powers in South Asia,...
Have Pakistanis learnt the use of Soft Power?
Adam Garrie | For decades, Pakistan has been cursed with political leaders who seemed incapable of grasping the importance of soft power as a tool...
Kazakh police raid raises spectre of China’s long arm – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | A police raid on a Kazakh group documenting the plight of Kazakhs and Uyghurs caught in a brutal crackdown in China’s...
Aurat March: What went wrong!
Farah Adeed | Populism and polarization have become permanent features of the modern world. Francis Fukuyama, Professor of Political Science at the Stanford University, observed...
Iran and North Korea highlight pitfalls of Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy – James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey | Donald J. Trump’s hitherto failed ‘maximum pressure’ approach to Iran, as well as for that matter North Korea, begs the question...