End of Zardari’s era: What is the way forward?
Farah Adeed | Pakistan is an interesting country where the ruling elite is among the richest individuals of the world but its masses are still...
Naya Pakistan, Imran, chaos, happiness, Saudis, xenophobia, riches, pigs and taxes; let 2019 begin!
Amer Zafar Durrani | Friends, foes, and people! Welcoming 2019 and leaving 2018 behind, I cannot think of a single event that mattered more than...
Export control of cyber-security software and tools
Afeera Firdous | Many computer security experts have celebrated the development of Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) in which it revised and added new export control rules...
Pakistan’s AMAN 2019: “Together for Peace”
S M Hali | Pakistan Navy is organizing a multi-nation naval exercise in the North Arabian Sea in February 2019. This is the sixth exercise...
Why can’t Judges & Generals be held publicly accountable?
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | 3 times former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif convicted to 7 years imprisonment on his birthday! A damning JIT investigation report submitted...
Dying Hopes of Domestic Investors
Khurram Sajjad| How wonder it is when the domestic manufacturers are growingly facing a narrow space for infrastructure development in Pakistan, particularly after the promulgation of...
Taliban hybrid war that defeated the USA
Zeeshan Munir | Afghan situation summarized According to western media/think-tank reports, Taliban control almost 50 % of Afghanistan’s territory in addition to having influence/presence in another...
Afghanistan’s neighbors and the prospect of a US withdrawal
Fatemeh Aman | How can we explain Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw part of the U.S. force currently in Afghanistan, at a time when U.S. officials are...
Repercussions of US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Abdul Rahman Malik | "The Afghan soil has been very difficult for the invaders whoever tried to occupy it or tried to impose their hegemonic...
Trump smart wars: Afghanistan exit as blessing
Sidra Khan | According to Hal Brands, professor of global affairs at Johns Hopkins University, Donald Trump is not a political bolt out the blue, rather...
How the Afghan Taliban defeated USA ?
M K Bhadrakumar | Surely, the recent Moscow conference on Afghanistan (November 9) brought to light that the peace talks will get a big fillip...
The end of PML-N and PPP
Ajaz ul Haque | The Irony of Ironies - a former Prime Minister is sent to prison for corruption and a JIT serves a damning...