Climate-Smart Cities By Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
PAKISTANI urban planners have failed miserably to plan safe and livable cities for us. Instead of serving as engines of …
Read MoreA Globally-Connected Europe By Muhammad Omar Iftikhar
The European Union’s foreign ministers have agreed to work on a global infrastructure plan to link Europe with the world. …
Read MoreThe BRI and Syria By Arhama Siddiqa
While taking the oath to officiate to reaffirm his authority as Syria’s President for a further seven years, Bashar al-Assad …
Read MoreWhy the Quad Alarms China By Kevin Rudd
When former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe invited officials from Australia, India, and the United States to meet in Manila …
Read MoreThe Afghan Refugee By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
PRETTY much all states deploy facts selectively to sustain their national ideologies, inconvenient truths glossed over to maintain the façade …
Read MorePak-Russia Ties: Prospects and Challenges By Wali Ejaz Nekokara
Pak-Russia relations are a saga of mistrust. There are three main periods in which a trust deficit was triggered between …
Read MoreUS-EU Three Seas Initiative vs Russia & China By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
APPARENTLY, with the Biden Administration’s glaring slogan that America is back, a new resurrection in the transatlantic relationship seems to …
Read MorePeace Conference | Editorial
Senior officials confirmed on Monday that Pakistan has decided to shelve the Afghanistan Peace Conference because of the Afghan government’s …
Read MoreWidening Deficit | Editorial
Pakistan kicked off the new financial year with a trade deficit worth $3.058 billion, an estimated 81.4 percent. Through restricting …
Read MoreA Deal With Russia On Afghanistan May Give US a Chance To Save Face By Djoomart Otorbaev
During their June 16 Geneva summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly offered US President Joe Biden the use of Russian …
Read MoreWe Cannot Stand By and Watch Afghanistan Collapse By Kai Eide and Tadamichi Yamamoto
The past few months in Afghanistan, even by the standards set by two decades of war, have been especially calamitous. …
Read MoreAfghanistan Needs a Broad-Based Solution Amid Taleban’s Onslaught By Waqar Mustafa
As I start writing these lines, reports pour in of an attack on the residence of Afghanistan’s defence minister. Not …
Read MoreA New Superpower By Imtiaz Rafi Butt
THERE is one fact that is being unanimously accepted by statesmen, researchers, historians and academicians alike that the Old World …
Read MoreWhen Biden Meets Putin By Michael Kimmage
US. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who are scheduled to meet in Geneva on June 16, may …
Read MoreChallenges After US Troops Withdrawal By Rashid A Mughal
PRESIDENT Biden has announced that the United States will withdraw all remaining military forces from Afghanistan before September 11, 2021 …
Read MoreFATF Review | Editorial
Pakistan isn’t out of the woods yet. But, much like British Rail, it’s getting there. At least this was the …
Read MorePivot Asia and Regional Fears By Dr Muhammad Ali Ehsan
The 21st century is declared as Asian Century, and the US has already pivoted towards Asia so that it doesn’t …
Read MoreDeveloping a Foreign Policy For Pakistan By Najm us Saqib
A nation may stop daydreaming of having a strong foreign policy in the face of diminishing credibility, weak economic indicators, …
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