China set to block cryptocurrency trading
AFP | China plans to stamp out all remaining cryptocurrency trading in the country by blocking access to overseas-based websites and removing related applications from...
Using nepotism in the pursuit of ‘Power’
Shiffa Yousafzai | Suo motu action taken by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar and his summon spree in the last few...
Afghanistan’s Managed Chaos: US Strategic Regional Designs
Adnan Qaiser | Winston Churchill held the view that Americans can be trusted to do the right thing; only after having exhausted all other alternatives....
Ex-senator’s claims against Pakistan highlight US hypocrisy
Jamal Hussain | Larry Pressler, the former three time US senator from South Dakota was in the news recently, painting nuclear Pakistan as a threat...
Pak media polarized? It’s just business, nothing personal!
Shiffa Yousafzai | Many will agree with me that perhaps the biggest problem with Pakistani media today is its sharply polarized nature. The split between...
America’s Waterloo: ‘Scapegoating’ Pakistan for Failures in Afghanistan
Adnan Qaiser | French statesman, Georges Clemenceau had notably observed, “War is too important to be left to the generals.” Since no general ever happily...
Over 7,000 Pakistanis jailed abroad are without government support
GVS Special Report | On the 8th Session of the National Assembly Secretariat in 2014 during the “QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWERS AND THEIR REPLIES”, the...
Pakistan’s Jihadist cauldron: From national asset to national millstone
Adnan Qaiser | National interests of states are often blind-and brutal, yet they call for some rationality considering our interlinked global destinies in the 21st...
‘Repercussions’ of the US bid to isolate Iran!
Asif Haroon Raja| Iran under Reza Shah Pahlavi enjoyed best of relations with the United States of America (USA) as well as Kingdom of Saudi...
Analyzing the future of ‘Trump’ Afghan Policy
News Analysis | I have never been a great admirer of Hussain Haqqani (Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the United States), but two observations that he...
Time to get rid of crooks
Haider Mehdi | At a recent seminar in Toronto, organized by OPEN (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America) I heard a talk by Dr....
Where were the US-Canadian hostages before they were freed?
Jamal Hussain | The Pakistani version is unambiguous—they were somewhere in Afghanistan from where the abducted family was in the process of being moved across...