Xi, Modi agree to reduce border tensions
AFP | Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended informal meetings in China Saturday with a promise to reduce border tensions after...
Ice-breaker visit of Modi to China; India still insecure about CPEC
News Analysis | Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), to which Pakistan and India became a party in 2017, on the lines of increasing regional cooperation on...
Israel warns of attack if Russia air defences used in Syria
AFP |Â Israel's Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday that his country would attack Russian S-300 air defence systems in Syria if they were used...
Seven decades of danger and detente between two Koreas
AFP | North and South Korea will hold their third summit Friday, stirring hopes of peace following years of tensions over the North's nuclear and...
Can Pakistan’s policymakers respond to much-hailed CPEC?
Waqas Shabbir | The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is hailed as the best opportunity to have knocked at Pakistan’s door, after a long stalemate...
Will India calm down after China’s clarification over military designs in Pakistan?
News Analysis | Pakistan’s longstanding ally, China has categorically rubbished rumors that it had military designs in its mind, in the development of multi-billion Dollars...
Russia-Iran ties surge under US pressure
M K Bhadrakumar | A commentary entitled Tehran, Moscow boosting strategic relations, appearing last week in the Iran Daily newspaper, which is close to Supreme...
Modi’s visit expected to ease India-China tensions
News Analysis | Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China this week for an informal meeting with President Xi Jinping, as efforts at rapprochement...
US-China trade tension dominates IMF gathering
AFP | Trade tensions between the United States and China, which threaten to spill over into the global economy, are dominating a gathering of world...
Despite daunting past, Pakistan and Russia draw closer amid geopolitical changes
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Shifts in the global political landscape have pushed the United States and Pakistan further apart, drawing Russia and Pakistan closer...
Is internal instability leading Pakistan towards chaos?
Brig. Asif Haroon Raja (R)| India has all along been trying to break up Pakistan, but it became a collective target of Indo-US-Israeli nexus after...
Kremlin is monitoring the wealth of Russian OfficialsÂ
AFP | The Kremlin's annual list of Russian officials' earnings has provided an outline of the richest names in government, even as the true wealth...