How India botched up with Erdogan’s visit?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The Indian Ministry of External Affairs schedules high-level visits by foreign dignitaries on the basis of clear-cut diplomatic objectives. A visit...
RAW fuels terrorists, Pakistan stays strong: Modi’s new strategies?
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Pakistan has been encountering grave internal and external security challenges since the dawn of the twenty-first century. Its adversaries, particularly...
Civil-Military relations on social media: Has Pakistan turned into a laughing stock for the world?
Imtiaz Gul | Pakistan’s state institutions have yet to learn the art of strategic communication. The confessional video statement of the once-dreaded TTP spokesperson, Ehsanullah...
A Restrictive foreign policy: Is India inviting trouble?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | When diplomacy becomes brittle, foreign policies become sub-optimal. India’s diplomacy toward China and Pakistan testifies to it. Dialogue with Pakistan is...
Spies and terrorists seeping into Pakistan: India’s dirty war
Zeeshan Munir | On 3rd March 2016, Kulbhushan Jadhav, a serving commander in the Indian Navy working for RAW, was arrested from Baluchistan. His arrest...
Nawaz’s Silence on Indian Involvement in Sponsoring Terror in Pakistan
Saad Rasool| On Monday, Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Asif Ghafoor, announced that Ehsanullah Ehsan, the former spokesperson for prescribed...
Question of Reputation: Why Nawaz not using same criteria he applied on PAS Officers?
Dr. Shahbaz Shabbir Gill | Not long ago, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif introduced the process of attrition in the promotions of civil services officers. Never...
Mother of All Bombs: nothing more than a mere theatrical act by the US?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The BBC’s first-hand report from the remote site in the southern Afghanistan province of Nangarhar where the US dropped the Mother...
Pope Francis’ visit to Egypt: an attempt to resolve differences between Muslims & Christians
James M. Dorsey | Billed as a bid to stimulate inter-faith dialogue, Pope Francis, on a visit to Egypt, is tiptoeing through a religious and...
China’s ‘soft’ imperialism: Will Pakistan gain nothing from CPEC?
F. M. Shakil | The US$56 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – a part of China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ vision – has yet to...
Why dark-skinned women often pay a higher dowry?
Rina Chandran | Mirror, mirror on the wall; who is the fairest of them all? The one with the palest skin, of course. Or that's...
The specter of civil-military tensions is stirring, yet again…?
Najma Minhas| The specter of civil-military tensions is stirring, yet again, following the events of Saturday, 29th of April. The inquiry into the “Dawn Lies*”, at...