Pakistan must give one message on India’s self-confessed “state actor”
Ikram Sehgal | Serving Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) under the Pakistan Army Act...
Rap Song ‘Wrap my Hijab’ is breaking the internet
28-year-old Syrian-American Mona Haydar’s rap song called ‘Hijabi’ has an eight-month-pregnant Haydar, and a group of women wearing hijab, dancing and singing along to...
India’s Fury on Kulbhushan’s Death Sentence: What are India’s real options?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | A few hours after Pakistan Army Chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, ratified the death sentence given to Kulbushan Jadhav, the...
FBR’s irrational taxation regime only has one motivation: extraction?
Imtiaz Gul | The Federal Board of Revenue continues to act as a highly extractive institution. With the tax-leaking at an increase and the revenue...
US turning the world into a battlefield to safeguard “national security interests”
Dr. Ron Paul | President Trump said it is in the “vital national security interest of the United States” to attack Syria over the use...
India’s ‘Anti-Romeo’ squads enforce what they consider as ‘unacceptable behavior!’
Last week in Uttar Pradesh, police squads were busy hunting “Romeos.” This came straight after the ban on buffalo slaughter, by the ruling Bharatiya...
Quaid-e-Awam vs Kaptaan: ‘Andhi’ can only come from Lahore!
Farid A. Malik | It was November 1967; I stood face to face with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) at the YMCA Hall on the Mall....
Moscow tells US Secretary Tillerson not to strike Syria again
Syria and North Korea are two main subjects of today's talks between U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
North Korea vows strong response to ‘reckless’ US naval move
North Korea denounced the US deployment of a naval strike group to the region Tuesday, warning it is ready for "war" as Washington tightens...
Kulbhushan’s death sentence: a “Circuit Breaker” or “Grand Bargain”?
Imtiaz Gul | The conviction to death of Kulbhushan Jadhav through a Field General Court Martial came as a surprise to the majority of Pakistanis....
Korean Crisis: Another chapter of the CIA & NSA’s “national security” drama?
Jacob G. Hornberger | Given that we all have been born and raised under the type of governmental structure known as a “national security state”,...
G7 sides with Russia: Unexpected setback to the US?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The G7 was meant to be an insipid forum that unfailingly followed the US diktat, but the worm is apparently turning....