Philippine strategy to combat homegrown terrorism
Jumel G. Estrañero | While the urban warfare drills were pushed through between U.S. and RP during 10 days of military exercises that wrapped up...
Nawaz’s doomsday politics
Ikram Sehgal | Disqualified as Prime Minister (PM) by the Supreme Court (SC) on July 28, Nawaz Sharif was forced to relinquish his position as...
Confront the Challenges: Engage Afghanistan, Protect CPEC
Maria Bastos | Two of Pakistan’s foreign policy core themes: CPEC and Afghanistan are passing through a critical moment and will soon become the most...
Consequences of abrogating Iran nuclear deal
James M. Dorsey | US President Donald J. Trump’s targeting of a two-year-old agreement curtailing Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons could not only spark...
Motivation and justification in the Las Vegas Massacre
Jacob G. Hornberger | Ever since the Las Vegas massacre, investigators have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what Stephen Paddock’s...
Russia: The new master of Middle East
M K Bhadrakumar | The remark Wednesday by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential envoy for the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov offering Moscow’s mediation for a...
China: A story of a great transformation
Umair Aslam | I recently embarked on a journey to China for three weeks to attend a Seminar on New Energy Industry Cooperation for Developing...
A master-plan to balkanize Pakistan – Part III
Asif Haroon Raja | War against the Soviets Fearing a takeover by the fundamentalists, 40th Soviet Army intervened and occupied Afghanistan on December 27, 1979, killed Hafiz...
Pakistan’s Internal Power Struggle: Who is running Pakistan?
Yasmeen Aftab Ali | Ideally, it should be the government duly elected by the people. However, the government in Pakistan instead of being democratic in...
Why is US against CPEC?
Rabia Khaliq | Pak-US relations have been marred by mistrust and suspicions. However, this bilateral relationship is witnessing another downward tendency since Donald Trump became...
Will ‘IoT’ technology revolutionize Pakistan’s healthcare
Farkhi Hassan | As a digitally aware person living, on the digital frontier in Pakistan, I follow the changes new technologies are bringing very closely,...
24% Increase in Sindh’s education budget; what will it achieve?
Zainab Husain | Chief Minister of Sindh Murad Ali Shah placed education as a priority in his budget speech for 2017-18 presented to Sindh Assembly...