Pakistan 2016: Sandwiched between hostile India & Afghanistan; Will 2017 be any different?
Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | PAKISTAN’S relations with its eastern and western neighbours are not very optimistic at the beginning of 2017. Both India and...
Javed Hashmi: Non-Rebel With a Personal Cause
Ghulam Mustafa | Too much of it can go to your head and I am not talking about that amber liquid either. Acquiring or living...
Islamic State violence fuels culture wars and widens generation gaps in Turkey
James M. Dorsey | The Islamic State’s New Year’s Eve bombing of an upscale nightclub in Istanbul has fuelled culture wars in Turkey and Israel and...
China’s aid to Nepal: closer relations on horizon worries India
Yubaraj Ghimire China’s pledge for a grant of one billion RMB for post-earthquake reconstruction and border road construction last month came as a new year...
Pakistani Media: Prisoner of Cross-Media Ownership?
By: Zainab Assad I am a student of journalism and currently studying in one of the most prestigious women colleges of Pakistan. I often scare...
Media Aazadi, magar Barayay Naam!
By: Zainab Assad I am a student of journalism and currently studying in one of the most prestigious women colleges of Pakistan. I often scare...
Are Russia and China Creating a New World Order in Eurasia?
James M Dorsey| A new Russian-led, China-backed Eurasia-centred world order may be in the making. This is against the backdrop of alleged Russian cyber warfare...
HIS MASTER’S VOICE? Mevlanas of our times!
HIS MASTER’S VOICE? by Lt. Gen. Ghulam Mustafa (R) Maulana Fazlur Rehman gives totally new dimensions to political expediency whenever he is cornered, which is very...
A Vision of Trump’s Middle East: Back to the Future
By James M. Dorsey President-elect Donald J. Trump’s, clearest indication yet of his policy approach towards the Middle East and North Africa, was tucked into...
Porcupine of the Pakistani Politics?
by Lt. Gen. Ghulam Mustafa (R) Porcupine Syndrome isn’t a well-known term. In fact, it isn’t a term at all and therefore, not understood. I...
Why Modi needs to wake up? Advice from a Pakistani
Imtiaz Gul | Indian hardliner party Shiv Sena, according to an editorial in Saamana, wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban Pakistani film and artists. “Can...
Moscow has the world’s attention. For Putin, that’s a win.
MOSCOW — President VladiÂmir Putin is winning. For now. The Russian leader is winning because the post-Cold War order he has railed against has been thrown into...