Trump’s Final Foreign-Policy Report Card By Stephen M. Walt
A lifetime ago—January 2017—I sat down to assess outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign-policy performance. Obama inherited a global financial …
Read MoreDawn Editorial 5 January 2021
Hazara miners’ slaughter HORROR has revisited the beleaguered Shia Hazara community once again. Early Sunday morning, 11 coal miners, all …
Read MoreEurope Has Handed China a Strategic Victory By Gideon Rachman
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, says she wants to lead a “geopolitical commission”. But Ms …
Read MoreWhat Economic Experts Are Certain Of About 2021: More Global Uncertainty – Analysis By Frank Kane
The year just gone was the Great Accelerator. This time last year, the experts were predicting a slight downturn in …
Read MoreReopening Schools | Editorial
In a meeting conducted by education ministers in the country, it has been decided that all educational institutes will be …
Read MoreThe Destiny of Brexit By Khurram Mateen
Britain has finally reclaimed its ‘sovereignty’ and regained control of its ‘destiny’ – the much-touted objective of Brexit – ending …
Read MoreMatter of Reopening Schools | Editorial
Federal and provincial education ministers are set to put their heads together once again and decide what to do about …
Read MoreCircular Debt | Editorial
THE government’s plan to settle the outstanding dues of IPPs amounting to Rs450bn in three tranches is only the first …
Read MoreDawn Editorial 4 January 2021
Sanctity of contracts THE Pakistani taxpayer has to foot yet another bill. The government is paying a whopping $28.7m from …
Read MoreDawn Editorial 3 January 2021
Rs10m fine THANKFULLY, there are some quarters in Pakistan willing to use their authority to signal the unacceptability of forcibly …
Read MoreReciprocal Ties | Editorial
Political disagreements in the past between Afghanistan and Pakistan have affected bilateral trade activities the most. While the cross-border exchange …
Read MoreGlobal Reset and the New World Order
Just one year ago, in the first few days of January 2020, no one could have predicted or imagined that …
Read MorePakistan’s New Year Foreign Policy Challenges By Kamran Yousaf
Year 2020 was tumultuous, to say the least, for Pakistan on the foreign policy front. Not just relationship with India …
Read MoreTension, Competition Among the GCC States By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
THOUGH Riyadh and Doha seem tilted to get closer to signing a deal to end the Gulf dispute, the UAE, …
Read MoreYear of Growth | Editorial
While the prime minister might have exaggerated the effect of recent upside surprises in export and inflation figures a little, …
Read MoreThe Reconstruction of America By David W. Blight
In 1882, Walt Whitman, the American poet of democracy and nearly everything else in the human spirit, worried that his …
Read MoreThe Express Tribune Editorial 2 January 2021
Media under attack Reggae singer Bob Marley once performed just two days after being shot. When asked why he …
Read MoreDawn Editorial 2 January 2021
Nursing excellence IN a refreshing bit of news, eight Pakistani nurses and midwives have been included among the Global-2020 100 …
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