Trump Tariffs and the Fall of Free Trade By Agha Zuhaib Khan
Apr 5,25
The End of an Era Trump Tariffs and the Fall of Free Trade By Agha Zuhaib Khan, The era of …
Read MoreWill US attack Iran? By Touqir Hussain
Apr 4,25
IRAN is at its weakest moment externally since the Iran-Iraq war. Israel’s aggression in Lebanon and Gaza has critically wounded …
Read MoreA hard state? By Shahab Usto
Apr 4,25
THE recent in-camera civil-military huddle at Parliament House once again unfolded three conceptual cleavages that have rent apart the polity. One, the …
Read MoreFrom hard to harder By Sakib Sherani
Apr 3,25
‘There is no use of running on the wrong road’ — Turkish proverb ELITE misrule in Pakistan has scarred the …
Read MoreLosing the plot By Khurram Husain
Apr 3,25
YOU can tell when a government in Pakistan has lost the plot when they turn to the bureaucrats for ideas …
Read MoreFirst line of defence By Maleeha Lodhi
Mar 31,25
IF foreign policy is the country’s first line of defence it is disconcerting how successive governments have left the foreign …
Read MoreNeighbourly cooperation By Muhammad Amir Rana
Mar 30,25
PAKISTAN is an active member of the UN, with a track record of supporting the peaceful resolution of conflicts worldwide. …
Read MorePolitical decorum in decline By Saira Samo
Mar 29,25
The steady decline in political discourse on our television screens has become a painful spectacle. Politicians from both the ruling …
Read MoreCoercive approach won’t work By Asif Durrani
Mar 29,25
IMAGINE Afghanistan and Pakistan becoming enemies, each seeking to undermine the other. However, history shows that the two nations share …
Read MoreKashmir – A legal battle By Dr Shoaib Baloch
Mar 28,25
Kashmir is a legal contest between Pakistan and India. The revocation of Article 370 and 35-A of the Indian Constitution …
Read MoreWhere’s the water? By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
Mar 28,25
ON March 27, a report in this newspaper quoted an unnamed official of the irrigation bureaucracy as saying: “There is …
Read MoreThe leak By Imran Jan
Mar 27,25
If you open the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, it would seem that the American …
Read MoreNew world order By Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
Mar 27,25
THE Trump administration has attacked the liberal world order, built on multilateral alliances like Nato, the EU and Bretton Woods …
Read MoreAdjusting to a changing world By Talat Masood
Mar 26,25
Currently, the world is facing a serious moral crisis, and universal values carry hardly any weightage. Leaders of several countries …
Read MoreA predator state By Zahid Hussain
Mar 26,25
PAKISTAN appears to fit the definition of a ‘predator state’ which, according to economist James K. Galbraith, is “a political …
Read MoreA Nation Caught Between Superpowers By Dr Hasnain Javed
Mar 25,25
Pakistan’s economic trajectory is increasingly shaped by its complex foreign policy, particularly its relationships with the United States and China. …
Read MoreHard state, soft state By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Mar 25,25
Recently, the army chief addressed parliament after the Jaffar Express train attack in Balochistan. He said Pakistan had to become a “hard state” to …
Read MoreMiddle East edging towards persistent crises By Shahid Javed Burki
Mar 24,25
Recent events in the Middle East may mean that the region, after years of conflict, could be heading towards a …
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