OBOR: Has India lost its ticket to development?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | According to Pakistani press, one highlight of the participation by PM Nawaz Sharif at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing (May...
Impact of Kargil Conflict 1999 on Pakistan’s Current Security Perspective
Zeeshan Shahid Khan | Background Taking the Indian Army totally by surprise, Pakistani troops crossed over the Line of Control (LOC) in Kashmir in early 1999...
Will American plan to increase troops in Middle East & Afghanistan be a Self-built graveyard?
Dr. Ron Paul | By the end of this month, Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Advisor HR McMaster will deliver to President Trump...
Pakistan’s defective examination system: reforms or demise?
Miangul Majid Khan | A University professor wrote an expressive message to his students at the doctorate, master's, and bachelor's levels and placed it at...
The Middle-Eastern conflict: Threatening for Pakistan and China’s OBOR
James M. Dorsey | Increasingly caught up in the Middle East’s multiple conflicts, Pakistan is struggling to balance relations with rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran...
Pakistan’s strong economic performance? Questionable
Michael Kugelman| Recent months have seen a proliferation of Western media commentary attesting to Pakistan’s strong economic performance. Factors of economic development Tyler Cowan declared Pakistan’s economy...
Dawn leaks and ISPR’s sensible move
Raza Rumi| Pakistan’s military leadership, by issuing its latest statement on the Dawn Leaks issue through the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), has done the democratic...
Why Imran Khan should NOT have become Prime Minister of Pakistan
Shahid Ahsan Baloch | Being a common man, what I can recall from my early adulthood years (in the nineties) was a Pakistan already broken...
A glimpse of the past: Was Pakistan ready to respond to India’s overt nuclearization?
Samson Simon Sharaf | When Narasimha Rao, the Indian National Congress (INC) Prime Minister, called for snap elections in 1996, it was time for Pakistan...
Everything turns legit under the banner of ‘preserving democracy’
Ikram Sehgal | Such is the terror of possible retribution by those in governance that even a man of AD Khawaja’s conscience and inherent integrity...
Are the people ready for another long-march against dictatorship?
Dr. Farid A. Malik | Having lived through two movements (1977 and 2007) and getting ready for the third (2017), I thought it was a...
Will Trump be left standing alone against North Korea?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | On Tuesday, even as Moon Jae-in got elected as South Korea’s next president, in faraway Oslo, North Korean and American representatives sat...