Mr. Xi is certain to want to exploit the most recent spat in US-Saudi relations. His problem is that the spat highlights the opportunity and the minefield the Chinese leader has to navigate.

On 30 January 1971, an Indian Airlines domestic Fokker F27, also named "Ganga", flying from Srinagar Airport to the Jammu-Satwari Airport, was hijacked by two Kashmiri separatists belonging to the National Liberation Front.

The two states bear a grave responsibility to ensure stable deterrence as they cumulatively possess 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons and have come close to war numerous times over the past.

According to investigative journalist Steve Coll’s article in the New Yorker, India, and Pakistan, after intensive track II diplomacy, had very nearly reached an agreement that would have demilitarized Jammu & Kashmir.

Capitalism run by the West and the international corporations and international mafias is the promoters of materialism, corrupt practices, war mongering, conspiracies, intrigue, and other vices.

Dictatorships are hardly converted into democracy as observed from North Korea to Russia to the Middle East to South America. Fortunately, in Pakistan, the masses need a genuine spark and movement sets off.

Climate disruption has terrible national impacts in developing nations, including interstate conflict, terrorism, cyberattacks, fiscal crises, high unemployment, and severe social instability.

For a few days news has been circulating that the Prime Minister of Pakistan along with a high-level delegation including Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is paying a visit to China. But what is unique about it?

Technological developments in one way or another are pushing the rival states towards a never-ending arms race. International actors are becoming more anarchic and selfish to avail technological dominance.

If anyone thinks that by having a ‘mela’, on the GT Road for the next 5 or 6 days concluding with a musical evening in Islamabad in some isolated park, enough would have been demonstrated to this government to step down, then this thought, expectation or hope is totally misleading.

The Army and the ISI act as the first-line defense against all external and internal threats to the integrity of Pakistan. They have played their innings from the front foot outstandingly.

Late Arshad Sharif was famous for his work as a political commentator and an investigative journalist on white-collar crime and corruption. He was associated with different news media outlets in Pakistan.