Pakistan’s geostrategic environment and its impact on the economy
Saad Nisar | The geostrategic position of a country plays a very important role in determining the domestic and foreign affairs of a country. It...
Hudaibya Decision: Should Ex-heads of NAB from Gen. Amjad to Qamar Zaman Ch be prosecuted?
Saad Rasool | A three-member bench of the honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan has released its detailed judgment in the Hudaibya case, dismissing NAB’s appeal...
Afghanistan’s Managed Chaos: US Strategic Regional Designs
Adnan Qaiser | Winston Churchill held the view that Americans can be trusted to do the right thing; only after having exhausted all other alternatives....
Pugnacious Trump’s problems with Pakistan
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Over the past year, Pakistan has faced immense challenges in its dealings with the Trump Administration. The Americans incapacity to...
Iran and Saudi Arabia revisit their strategies
James M Dorsey | Expressions of support by US President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu have provided the grist for Iranian...
Time to stop being duped by the private education industry
Aisha Sarwari | Private education is a billion-rupee industry in Pakistan. It is a perceived national consensus that public education is not even half as...
Twitter fails to take action against Trump nuclear threats
Qaiser Sajjad | People all over the world are discussing American president Donald Trump’s tweet of January 2nd, which states: “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un...
Azad Jammu and Kashmir vs. Indian Occupied Kashmir: The difference
Mohsin Shahid | It was 2004, a year before the devastating earthquake in Pakistan, when there was a murder in Dherkot, district Bagh in Azad...
Trump tweets accusing Pakistan: Is there a method to his madness?
Jamal Hussain | “Pakistan gave us only lies and deceit,” tweeted Donald Trump the US President as a New Year’s gift to its most allied...
Pakistan’s ambitions for 2018
Ikram Sehgal | Events of national significance tend to linger on in our combined memories for some time, even then 2018 ushered in hopes of...
Middle East mess expands to East Africa
James M Dorsey | The six-month-old Gulf crisis has expanded to the Horn Africa, potentially fuelling simmering regional conflicts. Renewed fears of heightened tension in the...
Will Trump still be president by the end of the year?
Sidra Khan | When Donald Trump announced his intention to run for the office of the President of the United States in late 2015, which...