Pivotal Transition | Editorial
Aug 26,21On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi departed on a trip that will include stops in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and …
Read MoreWater Worries | Editorial
Aug 25,21The poor quality of drinking water in Pakistan is a well-documented fact. But what are the consequences of drinking fresh …
Read MoreTime For Peace, Not War By Abdul Sattar
Aug 25,21The United States and its Western allies could not achieve anything after spending over two trillion dollars on the invasion …
Read MoreIMF Allocation | Editorial
Aug 25,21With the pandemic now well into its second year, the world’s economies have started to adjust to the coronavirus and …
Read MoreLearning From History and Own Experience By Talat Masood
Aug 25,21One of the principal characteristics of a superpower is its ability to alter the behaviour of nations or a particular …
Read MoreEducation Disruption | Editorial
Aug 25,21FOR over a year now, the education sector has been particularly hard hit all across the world due to the …
Read MoreState of Uncertainty By Maleeha Lodhi
Aug 25,21LAST week’s dramatic developments in Afghanistan that stunned the world raise a host of critical questions about the future. What …
Read MoreA Strategy for Avoiding Two-Front War By A. Wess Mitchell
Aug 25,21HE 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’
Aug 25,21The Russian and British empires battled over Afghanistan in the 19th century, and the United States and the Soviet Union …
Read MoreOne Nation One Curriculum By Attiya Munawer
Aug 25,21A uniform curriculum is being implemented in Pakistan. After the implementation of this uniform curriculum, it will be taught in …
Read MoreWelcome Development | Editorial
Aug 25,21Pakistan and India have taken a leap forward in normalising their relations after a pestering mistrust of more than two …
Read MoreFATF: Moving Goalposts | Editorial
Aug 25,21Pakistan has been in the FATF dock for quite some time. The Paris-based regulator on financial transactions, anti-money laundering and …
Read MoreThe Sino-US Rivalry: Pakistan’s Predicament By M Alam Brohi
Aug 25,21Pakistan, wittingly or unwittingly, is caught in the crosshair of the rivalry between the two great powers of the world, …
Read MoreWe All Lost Afghanistan By P. Michael McKinley
Aug 22,21We All Lost Afghanistan By P. Michael McKinley. Two Decades of Mistakes, Misjudgments, and Collective Failure, As Afghanistan tumbles into …
Read MoreA New Afghanistan and History By Atle Hetland
Aug 21,21Today, I had planned to write about Afghan refugee issues, and also draw some lessons from the past, noting that …
Read MoreCould The Unfolding Situation After Taliban Takeover Of Kabul Be A Game Changer For Afghanistan US Pakistan By Fahd Husain
Aug 21,21THE Taliban have upended most calculations. Their lightening reconquest of Afghanistan has pushed the situation, and its stakeholders, into uncharted …
Read MoreThe New Cold War? By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
Aug 21,21THE Taliban’s reconquest of Kabul following Washington’s meek withdrawal has triggered speculation amongst progressives that the latter plans to halt …
Read MoreConstructive Dialogue | Editorial
Aug 21,21On Thursday, a delegation of Afghan politicians met with Pakistan’s civil and military leadership to discuss the ongoing situation in …
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