Middle East And China’s ‘Belt And Road’: Xi Jinping’s 2016 State Visits To Saudi Arabia, Egypt And Iran – Analysis
Feb 2,16
For his first overseas tour of 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited 3 key nations in the Middle East: Saudi …
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Feb 2,16Chinese President Xi Jinping just wrapped up his three-nation tour to the Middle East with a visit to Iran. The global …
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Read MoreWoman Empowerment – The Solution | Amna Malik
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Read MoreLiteracy in Today’s World | Maira Saleem, Maham Malik
Nov 21,15The importance of literacy in the world today cannot be emphasized enough where new technologies are emerging from nowhere to …
Read MoreA New World Order | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
Nov 21,15The racist subtext of many political speeches and the growing obduracy of terrorist attacks lead you to think that civilisation …
Read MorePakistan’s Middle East Problem | Fahd Humayun | Foreign Policy
Nov 21,15For decades, Pakistan’s approach to the Middle East has been shaped by two competing heritages: religious and post-colonial. But the …
Read MoreIran, Hezbollah and Russia: the real coalition | Ayaz Amir
Nov 21,15Daesh or the Islamic State is the most extreme form of Salafist Islam, so toxic that it makes the Taliban …
Read MoreWho runs Pakistan? | Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
Nov 20,15IT is hard not to sit up and take notice of the chief of army staff’s current preoccupations in America. …
Read MoreNuclear Discrimination | Malik Muhammad Ashraf
Nov 19,15Why Pakistan does not want to sign NPT Proliferation of nuclear weapons is rightly a cause of concern and there …
Read MoreTime to say Goodbye to IMF? | Rashid Amjad
Nov 19,15Economics is often described as a dismal science. So, when you read that the Pakistan economy — after eight years …
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Nov 19,15Whilst it is possible to criticise this or any other government for its performance, the performance of the Nawaz Sharif …
Read MoreThe New Warfare
Nov 19,15The Third World War may already be in progress, and it is going to be like neither of its two …
Read MoreThe new ‘war on Terror’ | Zahid Hussain
Nov 18,15The wave of atrocities over the last two weeks — from the downing of a Russian passenger aircraft to a …
Read MoreUnderstanding GDP and its Growth | Dr Kamal Monnoo
Nov 18,15There is a lot of talk about the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth number not only in our average daily …
Read MoreAggravating Water Crisis | Ali Ashraf Khan
Nov 18,15AMONG the many problems that Pakistanis are suffering from is water shortage that has been mainly man made. The water …
Read MoreA Reappraisal of Pak-US Relations | Maria Khalid
Nov 18,15Less domination and more cooperation According to a popular notion, three As — Allah, America and Army — have remained …
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