Is Panama Leaks Investigation a zero-sum game?
Ikram Sehgal | The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) mandated by a 3-member Bench of the Supreme Court (SC) has commenced its investigations about the “Panama...
What are Pakistan’s options in ICJ on the Kulbhushan Case
Zeeshan Munir | Everyone in Pakistan seems to have been caught off guard by the desperate Indian act of approaching ICJ to safeguard its national...
Making a success story out of CPEC: Certain, probable, or doubtful?
Nasir Azeem | The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is being talked about a lot in media, policy circles, and academia. This game-changing project is a...
Bringing Afghanistan & Pakistan close: Will China’s efforts bear fruit?
Imtiaz Gul | China is running full-steam ahead with multi-tier diplomacy to create a synergy of thought and action among regional countries as part of...
Rising Iranian-Pakistani tensions: Is Pakistan’s “house of cards” going to collapse?
James M. Dorsey | An Iranian warning that it may attack militant bases in the troubled province of Balochistan threatens to bring Pakistan’s house of cards...
The Butcher of Kabul: Life in times of Gulbuddin “Rocketyar”
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Personally speaking, my ‘encounters’ with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar have not been pleasant experiences. Their setting was Kabul, and the description of him...
Afghanistan’s stubbornness: An obstacle in regional development
Imtiaz Gul | At a May 2015 global forum in Beijing, former President Hamid Karzai had talked of high time to "recommit ourselves to peaceful...
Supporting Baloch insurgency: Where are Indian “high moral grounds”?
Tayyaba Sattar | New Delhi and Islamabad are once again at each other’s throat as tensions between the two continue to escalate. India is finding...
Israel-Palestine soccer battle puts FIFA in a pickle
James M. Dorsey | The perennial dispute between Israel and Palestine has put world soccer body FIFA in a bind. With FIFA groping on how...
Focusing on ISIS: Are we losing sight of a bigger enemy in Afghanistan?
Michael Kugelman | On April 13, the U.S. military dropped a huge bomb on caves and tunnels used by Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan....
Pakistan’s route to safety: Revision of the Afghan policy
Asif Haroon Raja | On May 5, 2017, Afghan border security forces carried out unprovoked firing across the Chaman border in Baluchistan on two Pakistani...
How do you know who am I?
Moeed Pirzada | How do you know who am I ? And what I meant? – A day earlier I was arguing the same with...