India could lose key allies in 2018 amid political unrest
M K Bhadrakumar | The South Block and Prime Ministers Office in New Delhi must anxiously count the nineteen days ahead as they spread the...
Afghan safe havens – for poppies, politicians & power brokers
Afrah Jamal | The upgraded version of Afghan policy released in August 2017 was followed by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to the...
7th Joint Cooperation Committee meeting on CPEC deepens trade relationship between China and Pakistan
Asia Maqsood | China and Pakistan have been working to promote the construction of the CPEC project through the sustenance of a Joint Cooperation Committee...
Fire at Mumbai rooftop party kills 15
AFP | Fire tore through a Mumbai building where a rooftop party was being held early Friday, killing at least 15 people and leaving many...
Why nuclear arsenal advancement is essential for Pakistan
Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The strategic significance of the nuclear weapons is undeniable. These weapons make major or total wars less likely between the belligerent...
The quality gap in Pakistan’s education system
Myrah Qadeer Khan | In the course of recent decades Pakistan's training environment has developed to the point of being indistinguishable. Helped by inadequate open division...
A polite ‘shut up’ call
Ikram Sehgal | Along with one of my platoons, radio operator and runner, I was hugging the bottom of a steep ridge with Marri militants...
Saudi king, Turkey PM discuss Jerusalem status at talks
AFP | Saudi King Salman and Turkey's premier on Wednesday discussed boosting ties and the status of Jerusalem, in a first high-level meeting since the...
Russia to meet ISIS threat from Afghanistan
M K Bhadrakumar | Kulbhushan Jadhav and our “surgical strike 2.0” across the LOC kept the adrenaline flowing in recent days, but it is the regional conference on...
Who killed Benazir Bhutto? The theories behind the murder
AFP with News Analysis input Ten years after former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a Muslim nation, was killed in...
Palestinian teen the centre of propaganda war with Israel
AFP | Ahed Tamimi is only a teenager, but has repeatedly been at the centre of the seemingly endless propaganda war between Israelis and Palestinians,...
Saudi air raid kills 68 civilians in one day in Yemen: UN
AFP | Sixty-eight Yemeni civilians were killed in two separate air raids by the Saudi-led Arab coalition in one day, the UN humanitarian Coordinator in...