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Monday, July 14, 2025

Kabul and Islamabad: Danger on the Durand line – Michael Kugelman

Michael Kugelman | Last month, Pakistan suffered its deadliest spasm of terrorist violence since 2014. Over a period of four days in February, militants struck...

King Salman’s visit to China & Malaysia: What Saudis Want?

James M. Dorsey | Yet Salman’s geopolitical concerns go far beyond whether the US remains a reliable guarantor of regional security. Saudi Arabia is locked...

Human rights violation in Sudan in the name of Sharia’h

Minahil Toor | Authoritarian regimes running on religious basis have always helped dictators keep their public quiet. Similar is the case of Sudan where we...

Question of overseas voting back in the supreme court of Pakistan

Dawood Ghazanavi | Supreme Court of Pakistan has the longest history in discussing whether voting rights should be given to Overseas Pakistani, cases exist since...

Did Arab spring revolutions achieve anything except discontent?

 Dr James M. Dorsey | Little has changed in much of the Middle East and North Africa. The youth bulge is bulging, accounting for one...

Arms race in South Asia will continue thanks to new Indo-Israel missile deal

Dr Zafar Jaspal | SINCE the mid-1980s, India has been importing missile technology for advancing its ballistic and cruise missile inventories. In addition, the dual-use space...

PSL final: Pakistanis will be the real victors

Ikram Sehgal | A bomb blast in May 2002 targeting the French naval technicians in a bus outside the Sheraton and Pearl Continental Hotels in...

We Should trust Supreme Court to give us justice!

Nasim Zehra | Obviously, only fools can call for a weakening of democracy. After all military interruptions in Pakistan that have disrupted democratic governments have...

PSL in Lahore: Ego or rationality to go ahead with the game?

By Gen. Ghulam Mustafa | 13 February 2017 appears to have faded from nation’s memory as indeed all other such days which took away so...

Real vision Pakistan needs involves more than building roads

Farid A. Malik | In a recent get-together, everyone was wondering why the government of PML-N is only interested in building roads and transport systems....

Are both US conservatives & liberals being hypocrites over immigration?

Jacob G. Hornberger| Leftists (or liberals or progressives, if you prefer) are lamenting the plight of illegal immigrants who are being arrested and deported by...

Can US President take Hudson Institute report on Pakistan seriously?

By Jamal Hussain | A briefing paper on Pakistan was issued to much media hype in February 2017 by the Hudson Institute, a research setup...