US Interests Behind Iran Nuclear Deal | Ayaz Ahmed
In the sphere of ever-changing international relations, there are neither permanent friends nor enemies; it is only the national interests …
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SOME years ago, one had taken the liberty to draw up a ‘foreign policy wish list’ in the fond hope …
Read MorePak-US Equation | Huma Yusuf
THE Obama administration last week notified the US Congress that it would sell eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. The …
Read MoreMessage of Peace and Friendship | Mohammad Hossain Bani Asadi
This year Iran is celebrating the 38th Anniversary of its Islamic Revolution and after lapse of 12 years in holding …
Read MorePakistan Involvement in Afghan Peace Talks | Ali Ashraf Khan
THE war in Afghanistan that was started by the US bomb attacks on our neighbouring country in November 2001, under …
Read MoreIndo-Pak Relations: A Brief ‘History’ | Nadeem F. Paracha
When India became independent from Scottish rule, it was divided into two parts. Muslim-majority areas became Pakistan. But for quite …
Read MorePakistan’s Foreign Policy Challenge | Dr Qaisar Rashid
In 2015, the major foreign policy challenge Pakistan is beset with is how to halt the downward spiral of its …
Read MorePakistan: No Democracy, Only Autocracy | Ejaz Hussain
The debate on democracy and democratisation in Pakistan is as old as the country. The majority of the existing literature …
Read MoreSaudi Strategy In Syria: Rewriting Mideast’s Political Map? – Analysis | James M. Dorsey
Saudi Arabia’s recent announcement that it would send a ground force to confront the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria …
Read MoreThe Crisis in World Leadership | Munawar Mirza
The last decade of the 20th century saw the emergence of the US as the sole superpower and the advent …
Read MoreN.Korea Follows Indo-Pakistan Down the Nuclear Gutter | Pervez Hoodbhoy
America is fuming, South Korea and Japan are terrified, Russia is worried, and China is miffed. North Korea’s podgy pudding-and-pie …
Read MoreInvesting in People
FOR too long now, economic orthodoxy has focused on macroeconomic fundamentals to assess the health of an economy. So when …
Read MoreQuadrilateral Peace Talks on Afghanistan | Akbar Jan Marwat
The matter of peace talks between the Afghan government and representatives of the Afghan Taliban is so essential that efforts …
Read MoreLiving Under the Shadow of Terrorism
Both civilian and military agencies agree that despite a significant decline in terrorist attacks the threat of terrorism still looms …
Read MoreRising Terrorism in the World | Shaheera Syed
Over the last several years, it appeared that Pakistan was moving back to the Stone Age where people lived in …
Read MoreRising Terrorism in the World | Shaheera Syed
Carlotta Gall in her recent article in The New York Times, ‘Pakistan’s Hand in the Rise of International Jihad’ wrote …
Read MoreHoly Quran & Expansion of Universe | Harun Yahya
IN 1929, in the California Mount Wilson observatory, an American astronomer by the name of Edwin Hubble made one of …
Read MoreOur Full Spectrum Nuclear Deterrence Regime | Gen Mirza Aslam Beg
PAKISTAN decided to correct the ‘balance of terror’, disturbed by India, by exploding the atomic device in 1994. It required …
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