Hard or competent state? By Maleeha Lodhi
THERE are several aspects to the debate that has been going on in the media about a ‘hard state’. Why, …
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China and the Muslim world By Syed Mohammad Ali
China’s military and economic rise has made it the most prominent challenger to America’s global dominance. Amidst this intensifying Sino-American …
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Trump Tariffs and the Fall of Free Trade By Agha Zuhaib Khan
The End of an Era Trump Tariffs and the Fall of Free Trade By Agha Zuhaib Khan, The era of …
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Will US attack Iran? By Touqir Hussain
IRAN is at its weakest moment externally since the Iran-Iraq war. Israel’s aggression in Lebanon and Gaza has critically wounded …
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A hard state? By Shahab Usto
THE recent in-camera civil-military huddle at Parliament House once again unfolded three conceptual cleavages that have rent apart the polity. One, the …
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From hard to harder By Sakib Sherani
‘There is no use of running on the wrong road’ — Turkish proverb ELITE misrule in Pakistan has scarred the …
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Losing the plot By Khurram Husain
YOU can tell when a government in Pakistan has lost the plot when they turn to the bureaucrats for ideas …
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First line of defence By Maleeha Lodhi
IF foreign policy is the country’s first line of defence it is disconcerting how successive governments have left the foreign …
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Neighbourly cooperation By Muhammad Amir Rana
PAKISTAN is an active member of the UN, with a track record of supporting the peaceful resolution of conflicts worldwide. …
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Political decorum in decline By Saira Samo
The steady decline in political discourse on our television screens has become a painful spectacle. Politicians from both the ruling …
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Coercive approach won’t work By Asif Durrani
IMAGINE Afghanistan and Pakistan becoming enemies, each seeking to undermine the other. However, history shows that the two nations share …
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Kashmir – A legal battle By Dr Shoaib Baloch
Kashmir is a legal contest between Pakistan and India. The revocation of Article 370 and 35-A of the Indian Constitution …
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Where’s the water? By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
ON March 27, a report in this newspaper quoted an unnamed official of the irrigation bureaucracy as saying: “There is …
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The leak By Imran Jan
If you open the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, it would seem that the American …
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New world order By Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
THE Trump administration has attacked the liberal world order, built on multilateral alliances like Nato, the EU and Bretton Woods …
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Adjusting to a changing world By Talat Masood
Currently, the world is facing a serious moral crisis, and universal values carry hardly any weightage. Leaders of several countries …
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A predator state By Zahid Hussain
PAKISTAN appears to fit the definition of a ‘predator state’ which, according to economist James K. Galbraith, is “a political …
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A Nation Caught Between Superpowers By Dr Hasnain Javed
Pakistan’s economic trajectory is increasingly shaped by its complex foreign policy, particularly its relationships with the United States and China. …
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