Alas! Turning out to be the king of thieves: Power and Electricity theft up to 80% in PESCO

Simran Shoaib | Agitated and afraid, the people of this country try to look forward to a change, considerable reforms or in simple words implementation...

Xinjiang: Pan-Turkism fuels China’s hearts-and-minds campaign

Dr. James M. Dorsey | Chinese efforts to woo Saudi Arabia’s ethnic Chinese community highlight the People’s Republic’s effort to avert criticism from the Muslim...

Bilour’s Assassination: TTP trying to reassert itself after Fazlullah’s execution?

Muhammad Feyyaz | The Pakistani Taliban chief was killed in a dramatic drone attack on 13 June in Eastern Afghanistan. The lay or even informed...

Writing on the wall for corrupt elite of Pakistan?

Ikram Sehgal | Even a cursory analysis of the three Nawaz Sharif sackings as PM reveals one constant sordid fact, his incurring penchant to listen...

The battle for Iran: Policy or regime change?

James M Dorsey | Iran, in the latest of a series of incidents on its western and south-eastern borders, said it had disbanded a Pakistan-based...

Russia can mediate a grand bargain on Syria

M K Bhadrakumar | The prevailing impression is that Russia plays a hugely influential role in the Syrian conflict. But it is equally the case...

Afghan peace, a shared responsibility

Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The continuity of asymmetrical warfare in Afghanistan has destabilizing spill-over effects on its neighbours as well as on great powers...

North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons

Jacob G Hornberger | With North Korea accusing Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) Mike Pompeo of engaging in a “unilateral and gangster-like demand...

Why Pakistan needs Imran Khan?

Farid A Malik | Why Kaptaan? The answer is ‘Naya Pakistan’. As Prime Minister (PM) he will have to deliver on his promise otherwise he...

A Nation oblivious to manifestos

Dr. Kalsoom Sumra | The heading of this critique says it all - the bitter reality about the importance of manifestos in the realm of...

Bravo ANP to contest Elections despite Bilour’s assassination; but who is behind all this?- Shiffa Yousafzai

Shiffa Yousafzai | All that we feared - and many political analysts had predicted - has just started right before the General Elections, now all...

FATA’s merger into KPK is not a guarantee of socio-economic prosperity

Taimur Khan | The infamous Elaqa-e-Ghair or No Mans’ Land, officially known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) formally became part of Pakistan’s Khyber...