Cold War new norm between India & Pakistan..?
Fahd Humayun | If there is to be a regional policy takeaway from 2016, it is that New Delhi’s apathy for a rapprochement with...
Has Russian Czar handed America’s President Elect a poisoned apple to eat?
Tony Walker | Finally, Donald Trump has publicly conceded that Russia sought to influence last year’s US presidential election by hacking the website of the Democratic...
Obama’s legacy: To be between the two worst presidents in US history?
Mark Beeson What will be the legacy of Obama. Barack Obama’s presidency was always bound to be something of a disappointment. Few presidents have entered...
Justice Siddique – Obituary of an imperfect man; just like all of us!
Moeed Pirzada | Justice (retd) Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, Sindh’s Governor died after chest pain, on Wednesday, January 11, 2017. He was 78, and was ill for...
Pakistan 2016: Sandwiched between hostile India & Afghanistan; Will 2017 be any different?
Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | PAKISTAN’S relations with its eastern and western neighbours are not very optimistic at the beginning of 2017. Both India and...
Javed Hashmi: Non-Rebel With a Personal Cause
Ghulam Mustafa | Too much of it can go to your head and I am not talking about that amber liquid either. Acquiring or living...
Islamic State violence fuels culture wars and widens generation gaps in Turkey
James M. Dorsey | The Islamic State’s New Year’s Eve bombing of an upscale nightclub in Istanbul has fuelled culture wars in Turkey and Israel and...
China’s aid to Nepal: closer relations on horizon worries India
Yubaraj Ghimire China’s pledge for a grant of one billion RMB for post-earthquake reconstruction and border road construction last month came as a new year...
A Vision of Trump’s Middle East: Back to the Future
By James M. Dorsey President-elect Donald J. Trump’s, clearest indication yet of his policy approach towards the Middle East and North Africa, was tucked into...
Why Modi needs to wake up? Advice from a Pakistani
Imtiaz Gul | Indian hardliner party Shiv Sena, according to an editorial in Saamana, wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban Pakistani film and artists. “Can...
Moscow has the world’s attention. For Putin, that’s a win.
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin is winning. For now. The Russian leader is winning because the post-Cold War order he has railed against has been thrown into...
Saudi-Egypt crisis leaves Israel concerned
Mountains of words have been written about the wonders of the “Sunni axis” of pragmatic Arab states, each of which maintains an “extramarital affair” — that is, low-profile...