Of biscuits and hot tea-cups: US aid to Pakistan over the years
Saleem Akhtar Malik l Since 1947, Pakistan’s relationship with the US has followed a tortuous and unpredictable route. The relationship had all along been a...
Pakistan, Washington and the folly of cultivating echo chambers.
Saeed Afridi | The tragic, darkly comic and somewhat farcical saga that was the “Raymond Davis Incident” is perhaps the best allegory of what is...
Pakistan’s dormant tourism industry
Rida Hussain | The construction of CPEC is indeed an eye-opening evidence that signifies the geographical location Pakistan enjoys. Landlocked from three sides and a...
Police raids Grand Ambassador Hotel
Muhammad Azam | Moral fascism can be defined as: A group of individuals, with an unjustified faith in the inherent ability of government to solve...
How the Indian state manages and controls diversity
Saikat Bhattacharya | Introduction The Indian state has to rule over an area with much diversity. Among them linguistic, class, caste and religious diversities deserve mention....
Qatar: a case study of how small states are treated in International realm
James M. Dorsey | A Qatari refusal to bow to the dictate of its larger neighbors is a case study of the place of small...
Of oil,economy,and Israel:US stakes in Syria
Nauman Sadiq l Washington’s interest in the Syrian civil war is partly about ensuring Israel’s regional security and partly it is about doing the bidding...
Let’s counter “The Contractor”
Ali Imran Jaffri | In one of his recent tweets, Imran Khan urged every Pakistan to read the recently released autobiography cum an account of...
Panama Case: should Supreme Court render the final judgement?
Saad Rasool | The Panama Leaks case is about to reach its much-awaited crescendo. And for the second time, over the past one hundred days,...
Native air warriors: JF-17 vs HAL Teja
Najam ul Hassan | An arms race between Pakistan and India is in full swings now. Both nations are locked in a seemingly endless struggle...
Has Russia entered NATO’s bedroom?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Can we say a “terrible beauty” is born in the NATO’s underbelly — to borrow the words from the Irish-English poet...
How Raymond Davis helped track Osama Bin Laden down?
Nauman Sadiq l Six weeks before the killing of Osama Bin Laden, on 16 March 2011, a CIA’s private contractor Raymond Davis, who had previously...