Is the Saudi Crown Prince still encouraging moderate Islam?
James M Dorsey | Recent Algerian media reports detailing Saudi propagation of a quietist, apolitical yet supremacist and anti-pluralistic form of Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism raises...
US Afghan strategy won’t work: Laments ex US Army Colonel
Jamal Hussain | A point paper by Lawrence Sellin, titled “U.S. Afghan strategy will be governed by events in Balochistan” has been published by the...
Bangladesh: Why Nawaz Sharif has a poor understanding of history
K. Hussan Zia | In his op-ed piece, ‘24 years of exploitation created Bangladesh’ in The Daily Times of 17th January Mr. Babar Ayaz defends Mr. Nawaz Sharif’s claim...
Is Gulf crisis turning Qatar into the region’s Israel?
James M Dorsey | Prominent US constitutional lawyer and scholar Alan M. Dershowitz raised eyebrows when he described Qatar as “the Israel of the Gulf...
What can Pakistan learn from Netanyahu’s visit to India?
Junaid Ali Malik | Every country has the right to maintain strong relations with the other, and this is what India and Israel are doing....
What is wrong with our police?
Waqas Khan | Recent events like child molestation and their subsequent murders and the appalling extrajudicial killings of youngsters have brought the inefficiency and the...
Will Pakistan ever see another leader like Jinnah?
Shiffa Yousafzai | Everyone in our country wants to be a leader and wants to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan. More than half of...
Why US created Afghan transit route?
M K Bhadrakumar | The US President Donald Trump made a significant diplomatic breakthrough in the Afghan war by getting Kazakhstan President Nurusultan Nazarbayev to...
Involving establishment in politics is unsafe for democracy
Junaid Ali Malik | The well-known tendency of the ruling party PML-N with regard to involving the army in every matter is quite precarious and...
Why Tunisians are back after the Jasmine Revolution?
John Filitz | Seven years ago in January a popular uprising in Tunisia ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. This year over 770 Tunisian civilians have...
US bullying tactics that increasingly mean nothing
Asif Haroon Raja | America’s continued presence in Afghanistan as well as its increasingly aggressive “creep” over the Afghan-Pakistani border has been justified under the ambiguous and...
US vs Islamic Radicals: Protagonists deliberately using historical ideologies to clash?
Zahid Mehmood | For the West, Muslims are medieval zealots, while Muslims often see the West as their enemy. These two presumptions have led many...