The US’s top 10 Lies About Syria
David Swanson | The United States, like in many cases in the past, is now rushing into Syria for war – not peace. Portraying a...
Will Nikki Haley’s comments pressurize India to reduce its ‘muscular diplomacy?’
M. K. Bhadrakumar| When President-elect Donald Trump picked Ambassador Nikki Haley as the US ambassador to the United Nations, eyebrows were raised that she lacked...
NEPRA decision: a threat to Karachi Electric and foreign investment in Pakistan?
Ikram Sehgal | Karachi Electric (KE), incorporated in 1913, is Pakistan’s only vertically integrated power utility with the license to provide electricity in Karachi,...
Saudi Arabia & Iran: A potential nuclear race in the making?
James M. Dorsey | Saudi Arabia is developing nuclear energy and potentially a nuclear weapons capability. The Saudi focus on nuclear energy serves several of...
Can Trump Abolish the CIA?
Adam Garrie | The President of the United States and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are not at the best of terms with each other....
Will the Muslim Military Alliance bring trouble for Pakistan & other Islamic Nations?
Abdul Rahim | The United States of America is the master of designing mini great games in the Islamic world, to secure its national interests,...
Non-alignment of Pakistan is needed to survive the new Great Game
Saud Bin Ahsen | The term “Great Game” has been used in different contexts to describe geostrategic struggles between various powers at different times. It...
When will the criminal silence of the state over Shia killings end?
Saad Rasool | On Thursday, last week, 24 innocent Shias were killed, and more than 100 others got injured, as a car bomb ripped through...
EU finally decides to play its part in Syria’s future
Sophie Mangal | While speaking at a press conference during the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting on April 3, 2017, the European Union’s High Representative...
Asian Ebola Virus Hits Pakistan
Asad Mustafa Karim and Prof. Dr. Sang Hee Lee | Human beings have been combating viruses since long, even before our species had even evolved...
Who are the Sufis and Why Does ISIS See Them as Threatening?
Peter Gottschalk | On Feb. 16, 2017, a bomb ripped through a crowd assembled at the tomb of a Sufi saint, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in...
Koreans Want Peace & Unity: Will the U.S. & China Allow it?
David Swanson | My biggest concern is not the embarrassment of a US public afraid of the tiny impoverished nation of North Korea. If that...