The small-town Afghan girls sparked in robotic competition in USA
Traveling 800 km to the American Embassy in Kabul just to get their visa rejected twice, the Afghan girls next door finally made their...
Refugee or migrant? Sometimes the line is blurred
A dozen years before the influx of refugees and migrants to Europe’s shores would force policymakers to take heed, Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 docudrama In this World brought the...
Trump’s Afghanistan strategy is simply old wine in a new bottle
Michael Kugelman | Afghanistan has suffered through a harrowing summer, even by the nightmarish standards of a country convulsed by conflict for decades. A cycle of...
An ever-weakening Afghan National Army
News Analysis | As casualties mounted to dramatic levels in 2017, even according to official figures that are most likely underestimated, the Afghan National Army...
Questioning the merger of FATA with KPK
The government took the first steps to make the tribal areas of Pakistan a part of Khyber PakhtunÂkhwa by introducing a merger with a 10-year...
Human rights abuses in Indian Occupied Kashmir (Part 1)
Asif Haroon Raja | Kashmir was always described as the heaven on earth. Its natural beauty and scenic views are matchless. Melodies of flowing water...
ISIS: the face of terror and options for Pakistan to deal with it
Qazi Abdul Mohsin | It may be surprising to hear, but it is a plain fact that modern global jihad originated as a consequence of...
Change yourself before we change ourselves :US tells Pakistan
News Analysis | The US is banking on Pakistan's support to end militancy in Afghanistan, said Senator John McCain during his visit to Kabul on...
The Afghan marsh enveloping the region
Saad Yousaf | Since the 2001 US invasion, the rapidly changing dynamics of the Afghan insurgency have stumped the strategic elite of regional countries. The...
Karzai blames the US for ISIS’s inception and proliferation
News Analysis | Former Afghan president,Hamid Karzai has berated the US for allowing ISIS to start,development and proliferate inside Afghanistan.Karzai has often lashed out at...
CPEC: A game-changing project
News Analysis | "Despite challenges, Pakistan is cruising towards the completion of the China – Pakistan Economic Corridor project", said Ahsan Iqbal while attending the...
Pak-Afghan blame game: who reaps the benefits?
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Pakistan and Afghanistan relations worsened incalculably in the recent weeks. Both Islamabad and Kabul have been accusing each other. Neither...