Challenging Roadmap to Peace By Maleeha Lodhi
THE Biden administration has launched its first diplomatic initiative to accelerate the Afghan peace process even as it continues its …
Read MoreAmerica’s Indo-Pacific Folly By Van Jackson
Adding New Commitments in Asia Will Only Invite Disaster On his first phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping after …
Read MoreAfghan’s Case For Peace | Editorial
The pressure on the Biden administration to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan as per a May 1 deadline does …
Read MoreThe SAARC Story By Khalid Saleem
THERE was a time when things were moving fastin this region of ours. SAARC was an organisation that had the …
Read MoreDeteriorating Relations | Editorial
With President Biden’s inauguration to the presidential office, there was hope for fostering a renewed friendship with China after Trump’s …
Read MoreStrategic Shift in Pakistan’s Foreign Policy By Kamran Yousaf
When the PTI government came to power in August 2018, Pakistan had to reach out to its friends in the …
Read MoreMoscow Talks | Editorial
AS the May 1 deadline for America to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan draws close, efforts are afoot to speed …
Read More‘Tough’ US-China Talks Signal Rocky Start to Relations Under Biden
US and Chinese officials concluded on Friday what Washington called “tough and direct” talks in Alaska, which laid bare the …
Read MoreThe World Still Needs the UN By Suzanne Nossel
Imagine a system of global governance fit for the twenty-first century. All nations would be bound to codified precepts restraining …
Read MoreAfghan Government, Taliban Agree to Accelerate Peace Talks After Moscow Summit: RIA
MOSCOW: The Afghan government and the Taliban have agreed to accelerate peace talks after Russia hosted an international conference aimed …
Read MoreSouth Asia Peace | Editorial
THE peace process in South Asia moves in fits and starts: things look up one moment, only to come crashing …
Read MoreDomestic Divisions Leave Blanks In US Asia Policy – Analysis By Gorana Grgic
In the flurry of analyses of Joe Biden’s early policy moves, there is a common thread that depicts the 46th …
Read MoreRenewal of Pakistan-Russia Gas Project By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
RECENTLY, Pakistan and Russia have signed a revised deal for laying the Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline, formerly known as the …
Read MoreTrump/Biden Foreign Policy – OpEd By Margaret Kimberley
Biden rules like Trump regarding Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Haiti, because the two imperial parties serve the same …
Read MoreBiden Builds Bridges To Contend With Beijing – Analysis By Ryan Hass
In 1949, American strategists feared that Soviet advances were generating an intensifying threat to the free world. That August, the …
Read MoreU.S.-Chinese Rivalry Is a Battle Over Values By Hal Brands and Zack Cooper
In the campaign trail, U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to put values at the heart of his administration’s China policy. …
Read MorePopulation Growth in the World By Atle Hetland
We don’t talk much about the world’s population growth nowadays, in spite of the world’s total population now having reached …
Read MoreAfghanistan: The End Game By Shahid Javed Burki
It appears that the Americans may be finally heading towards spelling out the terms on which they would end their …
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