The blockade defeats its purpose; Doha revives diplomatic ties with Tehran
News Analysis | Doha has decided to send back its envoy to Tehran after he was recalled 20 months ago over Tehran's deterioration of ties with...
The winners and losers in Trump’s Afghan Strategy – 1
M K Bhadrakumar | India and China are the only two regional capitals that have commented on the US President Donald Trump’s speech on August 21...
Is NAB really capable of initiating meaningful investigation against Nawaz?
News Analysis | National Accountability Bureau (NAB) did not send written summons to the Sharif family, local news reports claim. A local TV news anchor...
President Trump’s speech and our reactions
Muhammad Ali Ehsan | My first impression after hearing President Trump’s speech was – does it serve our interest to be so diplomatically humiliated from...
Pakistan can pull the plug on the US
News Analysis | Pakistan has started to mull over options to confront the new US South Asia strategy which has ramped-up pressure on it. The...
Will Trump’s ‘new’ Afghan strategy be successful?
Nasir Azeem | The Foreign Policy of every state on the world map is always carved out to protect its national interests. But what is...
Unlike Trump, JFK didn’t bend the knee to US Establishment
Jacob G. Hornberger | Like President Trump, President Kennedy was subjected to the same type of pressure by the Pentagon and the CIA to engage in...
Tillerson asks India to improve ties with Pakistan: too little too late
News Analysis | US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has asked India to take some steps toward improving ties with Pakistan. He said this while...
Mian’s revolution
Dr. Farid Malik | After three decades of retrogressive, status-quo politics, Mian Muhammed Nawaz Sharif, the deposed Prime Minister (PM) has decided to launch a...
The LNG scam?
Ikram Sehgal | Vide their milestone judgment SCMR773 in 2012 the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) canceled all the contracts of Rental Power Plants (RPPs)....
Russia-Turkey-Iran triangle gains traction
M K Bhadrakumar | The geopolitics of the Middle East is witnessing a tectonic shift with the emergence of a Turkish-Iranian axis that would have seemed...
KPK shines and so does Pakistan: Billion Tree Tsunami Project
News Analysis | Pakistan’s startling projection in the world rankings as the 7th most sensitive country to be adversely affected by the global warming has...