Nawaz Sharif’s “Interesting questions” & their equally “Interesting answers”!
After his disqualification, Nawaz Sharif has, on multiple occasions, dismissed the Supreme Court verdict which ordered his removal. Nawaz has raised several questions casting...
Real US intentions in Afghanistan? Dr. Moeed Pirzada’s podcast with Stimson Center
News Desk | Dr. Pirzada, prominent Pakistani TV Anchor and political analyst, argued that real intentions of US appear to maintain a "strategic foothold" a...
How India wants to encircle Pakistan and why it will fail…
Jan Achakzai | The Trump Administration’s new strategy in Afghanistan envisaging partnership with India will likely raise security concerns for Pakistan. The US strategy anchored on...
Human life wilts under chronic Thar crisis
News Desk | While the country is focused on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and Syria, there exists a forsaken land-Tharparkar, where abject poverty and...
The winners and losers in Trump’s Afghan strategy – III
M K Bhadrakumar | The tone and content of the statement issued in Islamabad on Thursday after the meeting of the National Security Committee, here, regarding President...
Trump unveiled an anti-CPEC strategy, not an Afghan one
Andrew Korybko | Trump recently announced his strategy for Afghanistan in a prime-time speech that was preceded by official announcements that the dispatch of approximately 4000...
Trump ‘New’ Afghanistan strategy is neither new, nor a strategy
Rupert Stone | It is a common feature of democratic politics that more a leader promises change, the more things will stay the same. Professions...
Pakistan’s security issues
James M. Dorsey | Remarks at ISAS Panel Discussion: Pakistan in challenging times, 25 August 2017. The facetious answer to the question, what security challenges Pakistan...
Old wine in a new bottle
Dr. Zafar Jaspal | President Donald Trump announced his belated Afghanistan strategy and also laid out his South Asian future plan on August 21, 2017. Realistically, there...
Khan condemns Trump; advises him to talk with the Taliban
News analysis | PTI Chief, Imran Khan while taking serious exceptions to President Trump's tirade against Pakistan, suggested that the US top man should find...
Parliament vs. Supreme Court: Long standing resentment coming to the fore
The government has unveiled its proposal to revise the articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution which the Supreme Court invoked when its five-judge...
Iran joins China, Russia and Pakistan in rejecting Trump’s Afghan policy
News Analysis | Iran has flayed the US over its new South Asia policy and has asked that country to end interference in the affairs...