Nuclear weapons | Editorial
We will not invest in our annihilation. Now we can avoid it. Our world and everything we care about is …
Read MoreWhere the economy stands By Waqar Masood Khan
The government has wisely chosen to allow the IMF to release the first post-programme monitoring (PPM) report that was discussed …
Read MoreWhat Putin's Reelection Means for Russia and the World By Nikolas K. Gvosdev
No one should have been surprised by the results of Sunday’s presidential election in Russia. Official figures maintain that nearly …
Read MoreThe Trump-Kim Summit Is No Game Changer By Steven Metz
During the past year the long-running conflict between the United States and North Korea seemed to be lurching toward catastrophe. …
Read MoreTrade for development By Munir Akram
US PRESIDENT Trump’s unilateral tariffs on steel and aluminium imports threaten to unleash a trade war with America’s friends and …
Read MoreCircular debt | Editorial
IN his first budget speech in June 2013, then finance minister Ishaq Dar gave an assurance to the country that …
Read MoreTies with Iran | Editorial
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s visit to Islamabad came at a time when relations between the two countries are more …
Read MoreLip service to gender equality in Pakistan By Yasmeen Aftab Ali
The Charter of United Nations in 1945 was the first international agreement which affirmed the principle of equality between both …
Read MorePendulum-like relationship | Editorial
The Iranian foreign minister, a shrewd diplomat who engineered the Iran nuclear deal with the West against overwhelming odds, is …
Read MoreAnother US volte-face in Afghanistan? | Editorial
Unannounced visits to Kabul, especially in the dead of night, by US generals, both serving and retired ones holding official …
Read MoreWater supply, demand gap to reach 31% by year 2025 By Sehrish Wasif
ISLAMABAD: The gap between availability of water and its demand is forecast to increase at an alarming rate from four …
Read MoreCPEC: western route and Balochistan By Hasaan Khawar
During his recent visit to China, a senator claimed knowing that there was no mention of the western route in …
Read MoreSaudi Arabia’s dramatic changes By Talat Masood
The young and dynamic Prince Mohammad bin Salman — the virtual Saudi ruler — had come to realise that his …
Read MoreDe-radicalising face of Pakistan By Gulshan Rafiq
Radicalisation has risen as a gigantic challenge for Pakistani society. It is by and large accepted to be activated by …
Read MoreSyria conflict rages as war enters eighth year
Syria’s lacerating conflict entered its eighth year on Thursday with the country riven by international power struggles, as Turkey encircled …
Read MoreStruggle vs terror By Salman Tarik Kureshi
“ONE man’s terrorist,” goes the received wisdom, “Is another’s freedom fighter”. But this is foggy thinking, the kind of value …
Read MoreGuns or books By Zubeida Mustafa
THE infamous legacy of ‘enforced disappearances’ that the Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet left behind has, unfortunately, been picked up …
Read MoreThe Truth About the Two-Degree Target By Ted Nordhaus
Upon reading Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer Morgan’s response (“Don’t Abandon the Paris Temperature Target,” February 28) to my recent …
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