America’s Syria and Afghan Policy By Talat Masood
President Trump’s decisions to withdraw troops from Syria and reduce the forces in Afghanistan by 50 per cent to a …
Read MorePulling Out of Syria — & Afghanistan? | Editorial
IT may be the right decision made for the wrong reason and executed in the wrong way. The reality of …
Read MoreBetween FATF and the IMF By Khurram Husain
TWO big tests are looming for the PTI government. Both have similar timelines. One is the stabilisation programme to be …
Read MoreRoad Towards Peace, Stability of Afghanistan By Adeela Ahmed
AFGHANISTAN is a state which is viciously suffering from chaos and Instability. The people of Afghanistan have been in the …
Read MoreHow America’s Foreign Policy Establishment Got China Wrong By James Curran
CHINA HAS begun to assert a grand vision of its own for a new world. Speaking at the Communist Party’s …
Read MoreUS Isolated For Blasting Iran Nuclear Deal By Mohammad Jamil
LAST week, the United States was alone at the United Nations Security Council over its decision to withdraw from the …
Read MoreWater Wars in the Offing! By Khalid Saleem
INEQUITABLE apportionment of water resources is fast becoming the cause of tension in several regions of the world. Our region …
Read MoreNuclear Disarmament — The Elusive Goal! By Khalid Saleem
Writing in The Guardian some years back, Hillary Clinton, then US Secretary of State, had talked feelingly about ‘a world …
Read MoreChina and Russia: A Strategic Alliance in the Making By Graham Allison
THE YEAR before he died in 2017, one of America’s leading twentieth-century strategic thinkers, Zbigniew Brzezinski, sounded an alarm. In …
Read MoreClosing The Climate Gap By Aisha Khan
THE 21st Conference of the Parties, hailed as a landmark agreement on climate change and forged in the spirit of …
Read MoreThe Stealth Superpower By Oriana Skylar Mastro
China will not, repeat, not repeat the old practice of a strong country seeking hegemony,” Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, …
Read More10 Conflicts to Watch in 2018 (From North Korea to Venezuela) By Robert Malley
It’s not all about Donald Trump. That’s a statement more easily written than believed, given the U.S. president’s erratic comportment …
Read MoreCOP24 — Deal or no Deal? | Editorial
As the two-week UN summit on climate change prepares to draw to an end, much hangs in the balance. The …
Read MoreBroken Europe By Helen Thompson
The European Union has always struggled to accommodate the democratic politics of its members. The problem became serious in 1999, …
Read MoreThe Korean Connectivity By Dr. Ahmad Rashid Malik
The basic purpose of Ri Yonh-ho visit to Beijing was to seek Beijing’s advice on resolving nuclear issues with Washington. …
Read MoreSetback for Modi | Editorial
AHEAD of next year’s general election, Indian ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lost key state elections in some of its strongholds of …
Read MoreHow a World Order Ends By Richard Haass
A stable world order is a rare thing. When one does arise, it tends to come after a great convulsion …
Read MoreSabotaging SAARC | Editorial
India’s attempts at sabotaging Saarc continue. In November 2016, New Delhi boycotted the 19th summit of the regional cooperation bloc …
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