US – China rivalry in Indo-Pacific region and Chinese energy security
Amina Khan | Historically, the region has been most important for the US, having its naval bases one of which is Diego Garcia being located...
Modernity, politics, and Islam: A discussion with Dr.Raghib Naeemi
Farah Adeed | We are now a part of a rational, complex, and the highly integrated modern world, in which people do not have the patterns...
Are peace overtures worth the effort?
Imran Jan | Imran Khan, one could argue, has acted unprecedentedly by making peace overtures to India, which has come up with laughable excuses. Indian...
Crawling through my skin, the wounds reopen every winter
M Zafar Khan Safdar | My drive is depleted, My smiles been deleted. Between all the tears, I feel angry and cheated. Like a festering wound From a splinter in...
Gulf rivalries spill onto the soccer pitch
James M Dorsey | With the 2018 World Cup in Russia behind it, the soccer world’s focus shifts to the 2022 tournament in Qatar. Politics...
Why Pak-US ties are bound to improve? – Dr. Zafar Jaspal
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The recent developments have created a conducive environment for improving the bilateral relations between Pakistan and the United States. Trump...
Pakistan needs a bloodless revolution – Farid A Malik
Dr. Farid A Malik | After forty years (1977 – 2017) of chaotic, mismanagement Pakistan needs out of the box solutions to restore order and...
FIR – False Information Report? – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | Earlier this week, during his speech at the symposium on population control, the honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan implored the Prime Minister...
The problem with democracy in Pakistan – Farid A Malik
Farid A Malik | Recently Sir Maurice James who was British High Commissioner in Pakistan during the sixties has published his book titled ‘Pakistan Chronicle’....
Why is Chabahar Port no match for Gwadar?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | India launched a new conduit for trade with Afghanistan when it shipped 1.1 million tons of wheat to Afghanistan from...
Pakistan’s missile technology: The perfect antidote for India’s S-400 purchase
Ammar Akbar | “National missile defense is poised to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation...
Defenders bad, aggressors good
Imran Jan | George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an absolute classic. In the story, the animals had 7 commandments distilled into the maxim “four legs...