Pivotal Transition | Editorial
On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi departed on a trip that will include stops in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and …Read More
Water Worries | Editorial
The poor quality of drinking water in Pakistan is a well-documented fact. But what are the consequences of drinking fresh …Read More
Time For Peace, Not War By Abdul Sattar
The United States and its Western allies could not achieve anything after spending over two trillion dollars on the invasion …Read More
IMF Allocation | Editorial
With the pandemic now well into its second year, the world’s economies have started to adjust to the coronavirus and …Read More
Learning From History and Own Experience By Talat Masood
One of the principal characteristics of a superpower is its ability to alter the behaviour of nations or a particular …Read More
Education Disruption | Editorial
FOR over a year now, the education sector has been particularly hard hit all across the world due to the …Read More
State of Uncertainty By Maleeha Lodhi
LAST week’s dramatic developments in Afghanistan that stunned the world raise a host of critical questions about the future. What …Read More
A Strategy for Avoiding Two-Front War By A. Wess Mitchell
HE GREATEST risk facing the twenty-first-century United States, short of an outright nuclear attack, is a two-front war involving its …Read More
‘Pakistan in Control, China to Cement Grip in Afghanistan’s New Great Game’
The Russian and British empires battled over Afghanistan in the 19th century, and the United States and the Soviet Union …Read More
One Nation One Curriculum By Attiya Munawer
A uniform curriculum is being implemented in Pakistan. After the implementation of this uniform curriculum, it will be taught in …Read More
Welcome Development | Editorial
Pakistan and India have taken a leap forward in normalising their relations after a pestering mistrust of more than two …Read More
FATF: Moving Goalposts | Editorial
Pakistan has been in the FATF dock for quite some time. The Paris-based regulator on financial transactions, anti-money laundering and …Read More
The Sino-US Rivalry: Pakistan’s Predicament By M Alam Brohi
Pakistan, wittingly or unwittingly, is caught in the crosshair of the rivalry between the two great powers of the world, …Read More
We All Lost Afghanistan By P. Michael McKinley
We All Lost Afghanistan By P. Michael McKinley. Two Decades of Mistakes, Misjudgments, and Collective Failure, As Afghanistan tumbles into …Read More
A New Afghanistan and History By Atle Hetland
Today, I had planned to write about Afghan refugee issues, and also draw some lessons from the past, noting that …Read More
Could The Unfolding Situation After Taliban Takeover Of Kabul Be A Game Changer For Afghanistan US Pakistan By Fahd Husain
THE Taliban have upended most calculations. Their lightening reconquest of Afghanistan has pushed the situation, and its stakeholders, into uncharted …Read More
The New Cold War? By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
THE Taliban’s reconquest of Kabul following Washington’s meek withdrawal has triggered speculation amongst progressives that the latter plans to halt …Read More
Constructive Dialogue | Editorial
On Thursday, a delegation of Afghan politicians met with Pakistan’s civil and military leadership to discuss the ongoing situation in …Read More


