Waiting for Nasser in the Persian Gulf
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Do not be surprised if Arab politics reminds you of Meryl Streep feuding with Dustin Hoffman in the 1979 American drama...
US-Russia ceasefire deal on Syria holding – for now
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The ceasefire brokered between Russia, US and Jordan in southwestern Syria seems to be holding for the time being. The Russian President Vladimir...
Uncle Sam’s Iran obsession continues; calls for regime change
News Analysis | The US-Iran rivalry is aggravating by the day. US Defense Chief, General James Mattis has said that regime change is essential to improve...
Iraq: No end in sight
News Analysis | Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited Mosul to congratulate the army for driving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)...
Myths on Pakistan’s role in Saudi-led military alliance
Jan Achakzai | Apparently, an organized social media campaign is in full swing against Pakistan's principled stance to join Saudi Arabia led security alliance. It...
Terrorism as pretext for intervention in the energy-rich Middle East
Nauman Sadiq | In order to understand the hype surrounding the phenomena of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, we need to understand the prevailing global economic...
U.S Iran nuclear deal: what will be its implications in the region?
Jawaria Waheed | 13 years after the nuclear activities of Iran were exposed an agreement was finally concluded on 14th July 2015 in Vienna, Austria which...
Tehran hits Delhi’s underbelly as Modi hugs Trump and Netanyahu
News Analysis | Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Khamenei has spoken in favor of the 'oppressed Muslims' of Kashmir for the second time in as many...
Pak-Iran: energy sector performance and wind power project
News Analysis | By the end of the financial year 2017, it can be said that  Pakistan’s power and energy sector will see tremendous improvements...
The start of the dreaded “Muslim ban”
“With the objective of maximizing national security, the Department of State will implement Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the...
Politics, not religion, is the source of Sunni-Shiite conflict
Nauman Sadiq l Lately, it has become a habit of Orientalist apologists of Western imperialism to offer reductive historical and theological explanations of Sunni-Shi’a conflict...
The Ummah : The fresh Princes of Bel Arabia and Muhammad Bin Salman
Haider Mehdi | King Salman, by elevating his son, the 31 years Mohammed Bin Salman, or MBS, as Crown Prince, may actually have signed MBS’s...