CPEC: Pakistan’s ‘Chinanization’ or Colonization?
Adnan Qaiser | It is said that in 1960 when Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong sent off General Gengbiao, his second ambassador to Pakistan, he advised...
SC stopped us from becoming a “Gangster Heaven”
Ikram Sehgal | Consensus on matters ensuring security and welfare of the common man is rarely achieved by our parliament. Such unanimity is only displayed...
National interests and geopolitical factors in Russia-Pakistan Relations
Leonid Savin | Presentation text read at the international conference “The Seventy-year Jubilee of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the USSR/Russia and Pakistan”, Russian...
Geopolitics and geo-economics of belt and road
Babar Zehri | The key Chinese foreign policy-makers, including the whole standing committee of the politburo, summoned a landmark conference dedicated to ‘Peripheral Diplomacy’. It...
Evaluation of democracy and forthcoming challenges to next government
Muhammad Bilal Abdul Ghani | The 14th National Assembly completed its term on May 31st, 2018. It is a landmark achievement in the democratic history...
The bizarre Trump-Kim Summit
Jacob G Hornberger | Overlooked in all of the hullabaloo over the summit in North Korea between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong...
A season for new books
Murtaza Shibli | Apart from the heat generated by the unruly sun, new books are scorching the milieu and pushing the ever-raging debates on Pakistan...
Justice for Khadija: A test for the law, the judge and the justice system!
Farah Adeed | Law has many purposes to serve in a given society. Being a formal mean of social control, the law is expected to...
Twenty years of nuclearization of South Asia: Lessons, challenges and way forward
Syed Adnan Athar Bukhari | 2018 marks twenty years of nuclearization of South Asia. India, though implicitly conducted its nuclear tests under the garb of...
A generational failure
Saad Rasool | The democratic process in Pakistan has completed its second consecutive term (ten years), for the first time in the country’s history. And...
US officials question their state’s Af-Pak narrative
Imtiaz Gul | Nearly four days before Pak-Afghan officials met in Islamabad to continue their revived dialogue under the Afghan Pakistan Action Plan for Peace...
Great Powers strategic competition in Indo-Pacific region
Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The convergence of Americans and Indians strategic interest not only endure Washington’s decisive role in the Indo-Pacific region but also strengthen...