Middle East And China’s ‘Belt And Road’: Xi Jinping’s 2016 State Visits To Saudi Arabia, Egypt And Iran – Analysis
For his first overseas tour of 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited 3 key nations in the Middle East: Saudi …Read More
China-Iran Upgrade Their ‘Comprehensive Strategic Relationship’ | Gordon G. Chang
Chinese President Xi Jinping just wrapped up his three-nation tour to the Middle East with a visit to Iran. The global …Read More
How The Islamic State Has Legitimized The Taliban – Analysis | Luis Durani
Reports have surfaced indicating that long time regional adversaries Russia and the Taliban are exchanging intelligence on the presence of …Read More
Failure of Governance in Pakistan | Ali Malik Tariq
Power, acquired through ballot or bullet, when misused to thwart rule of law leads to institutional and economic collapse, rise …Read More
Woman Empowerment – The Solution | Amna Malik
Father of the nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah once said: “No Nation can rise to the height of glory unless …Read More
Literacy in Today’s World | Maira Saleem, Maham Malik
The importance of literacy in the world today cannot be emphasized enough where new technologies are emerging from nowhere to …Read More
A New World Order | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
The racist subtext of many political speeches and the growing obduracy of terrorist attacks lead you to think that civilisation …Read More
Pakistan’s Middle East Problem | Fahd Humayun | Foreign Policy
For decades, Pakistan’s approach to the Middle East has been shaped by two competing heritages: religious and post-colonial. But the …Read More
Iran, Hezbollah and Russia: the real coalition | Ayaz Amir
Daesh or the Islamic State is the most extreme form of Salafist Islam, so toxic that it makes the Taliban …Read More
Who runs Pakistan? | Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
IT is hard not to sit up and take notice of the chief of army staff’s current preoccupations in America. …Read More
Nuclear Discrimination | Malik Muhammad Ashraf
Why Pakistan does not want to sign NPT Proliferation of nuclear weapons is rightly a cause of concern and there …Read More
Time to say Goodbye to IMF? | Rashid Amjad
Economics is often described as a dismal science. So, when you read that the Pakistan economy — after eight years …Read More
Keep the Back-Channels Open
Whilst it is possible to criticise this or any other government for its performance, the performance of the Nawaz Sharif …Read More
The New Warfare
The Third World War may already be in progress, and it is going to be like neither of its two …Read More
The new ‘war on Terror’ | Zahid Hussain
The wave of atrocities over the last two weeks — from the downing of a Russian passenger aircraft to a …Read More
Understanding GDP and its Growth | Dr Kamal Monnoo
There is a lot of talk about the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth number not only in our average daily …Read More
Aggravating Water Crisis | Ali Ashraf Khan
AMONG the many problems that Pakistanis are suffering from is water shortage that has been mainly man made. The water …Read More
A Reappraisal of Pak-US Relations | Maria Khalid
Less domination and more cooperation According to a popular notion, three As — Allah, America and Army — have remained …Read More


