Saudi-led alliance: Pakistan must make independent decisions for its own national interest
Dr. Zafar N Jaspal | The hysterical debate over the appointment of formal Chief of Army Staff as head of the 39-nation Islamic military alliance...
US Secretary of State’s visit to Moscow: new friendship or false dawn?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The early reports on the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s talks in Moscow on Wednesday have a positive ring but...
Malaysian Hacker reveals information: “Chemical Attacks in Syria were staged”
Sophie Mangal | On April 4, chemical attacks were carried out in Khan Shaykhun, Idlib, killing over 80 civilians and leaving around 200 injured. European...
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...
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...
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....
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....
Kulbhushan Yadav’s death sentence: Has Pakistan pressed the self-destruct button?
Abdul Rahim | Pakistan and India, since the time of their separation, have been countering each other both at diplomatic and security levels with the...