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...
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...
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...
India’s flirtation with the ‘war talk’ has Nuclear war clouds hovering over region
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The Indian civil and military leadership’s irrational war-mongering could have disastrous consequences for the subcontinent in particular, and the South...
Pakistan not interested in war with India
Junaid Ali Malik | The recent statement of Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat is tended towards appeasing the Indian nationalists. BJP hardliners including Modi have...
#JusticeForZainab
Saad Rasool | There are no words to express the grief, the shock, and the anger that people of Pakistan feels at the death of...
India-ASEAN Summit: India Showcasing The “Act East” Strategy”
Andrew Korybko | Next week's India-ASEAN Summit is expected to showcase New Delhi's "Act East" strategy of engagement with the regional bloc as Prime Minister...
Is US destroying itself through foreign interventions?
Jacob G Hornberger | Most everyone acknowledges that James Madison, the father of the Constitution, possessed deep insights into the relationship between liberty and government....
US creates rift among Russia, Turkey and Iran
M K Bharakumar | Five days after Turkey summoned the US charge d’affaires in Ankara to convey its concerns over the US’ continuing support for the Kurdish militia...
Dubai’s state-owned DP World looks to take over companies to push political agenda
James M Dorsey | The $6.85 billion acquisition in 2006 of Peninsular & Oriental (P&O) Steam Navigation Company, a storied British shipping and logistics company,...