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FBR’s irrational taxation regime only has one motivation: extraction?

Imtiaz Gul | The Federal Board of Revenue continues to act as a highly extractive institution. With the tax-leaking at an increase and the revenue...

US turning the world into a battlefield to safeguard “national security interests”

Dr. Ron Paul | President Trump said it is in the “vital national security interest of the United States” to attack Syria over the use...

Quaid-e-Awam vs Kaptaan: ‘Andhi’ can only come from Lahore!

Farid A. Malik | It was November 1967; I stood face to face with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) at the YMCA Hall on the Mall....

Kulbhushan’s death sentence: a “Circuit Breaker” or “Grand Bargain”?

Imtiaz Gul | The conviction to death of Kulbhushan Jadhav through a Field General Court Martial came as a surprise to the majority of Pakistanis....

Korean Crisis: Another chapter of the CIA & NSA’s “national security” drama?

Jacob G. Hornberger | Given that we all have been born and raised under the type of governmental structure known as a “national security state”,...

G7 sides with Russia: Unexpected setback to the US?

M. K. Bhadrakumar | The G7 was meant to be an insipid forum that unfailingly followed the US diktat, but the worm is apparently turning....

Kulbhushan Yadav’s death sentence: Has Pakistan pressed the self-destruct button?

Abdul Rahim | Pakistan and India, since the time of their separation, have been countering each other both at diplomatic and security levels with the...

Electric Cars in Pakistan! The Perks of CPEC

Naveed Ahmad | The skepticism about the likely market share of electric-hybrid or electric-electric hybrid cars is set to take a hit, as a top...

The ‘Deep State’ has taken over the Trump administration Like those before it

Jacob G. Hornberger | When President Trump took the oath he did so by promising to stand against the national-security state apparatus and to not kneel...

India sells Dalai Lama but does not see contradiction in its stand on Kashmir

M. K. Bhadrakumar | There is a dramatic irony that the polling in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency took place on a day when we...

Real reason why Turkey is not calling for an Investigation into the chemical gas attack in Syria?

M. K. Bhadrakumar | In principle, one country, Turkey, is uniquely placed to ask for an independent investigation into the chemical attack in the northwestern...

Saudi Arabia inches towards modernity with Prince Mohammed’s Initiatives

James M. Dorsey | Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s powerful deputy crown prince, is moving the country forward and to do so has put sports,...

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