Inside Spoilers & Afghan Peace Process By Reema Shaukat
PAKISTAN has always supported Afghan-led, Afghan-owned peace process while extending its all-out political and moral support to Afghanistan. Last year …
Read MoreKashmir Dispute — A Stark Proof of UN Failure By Muhammad Raza Malik
THE people of India illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir have been facing the worst kind of Indian state terrorism for …
Read MoreNegotiations For Peace | Editorial
The United States has been at war in Afghanistan for more than two decades now—men who had been stationed in …
Read MoreOpening Borders | Editorial
The world saw significant development on the evening of January 4 after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ended Qatar’s blockade. …
Read MoreTrump’s Final Foreign-Policy Report Card By Stephen M. Walt
A lifetime ago—January 2017—I sat down to assess outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign-policy performance. Obama inherited a global financial …
Read MoreEurope Has Handed China a Strategic Victory By Gideon Rachman
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, says she wants to lead a “geopolitical commission”. But Ms …
Read MoreWhat Economic Experts Are Certain Of About 2021: More Global Uncertainty – Analysis By Frank Kane
The year just gone was the Great Accelerator. This time last year, the experts were predicting a slight downturn in …
Read MoreThe Destiny of Brexit By Khurram Mateen
Britain has finally reclaimed its ‘sovereignty’ and regained control of its ‘destiny’ – the much-touted objective of Brexit – ending …
Read MoreGlobal Reset and the New World Order
Just one year ago, in the first few days of January 2020, no one could have predicted or imagined that …
Read MorePakistan’s New Year Foreign Policy Challenges By Kamran Yousaf
Year 2020 was tumultuous, to say the least, for Pakistan on the foreign policy front. Not just relationship with India …
Read MoreThe Reconstruction of America By David W. Blight
In 1882, Walt Whitman, the American poet of democracy and nearly everything else in the human spirit, worried that his …
Read MoreReviving ‘Vision East Asia’ By M Ziauddin
The Covid-19 related global lockdowns have massively disrupted the international shipping industry, adversely affecting global supply chains. A dire shortage …
Read MoreBrexit Concluded | Editorial
After months of tense negotiations, the European Union and United Kingdom have finally come to a post-Brexit agreement according to …
Read MoreBiden’s Inauguration By Adeela Naureen and Umar Waqar
As January 20th approaches, the world awaits the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States. …
Read MoreThe Foreign Policy Challenge By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Writing about Pakistan’s foreign policy is not easy. It is a function of Pakistan’s national policy which is determined by …
Read MoreIndia’s Politics and Society By Amna Ejaz Rafi
THE Hindu nationalist political parties struggle towards constitutional empowerment has brought religion as a political and social factor in India. …
Read MoreEntering 2021 With Hope | Editorial
So the Covid-infected world lurches into 2021, with a mix of hope and concern related to the vaccine — like …
Read MorePipeline In The Works | Editorial
Pakistan’s foreign ministry appears to have correctly identified that the way forward is to build deeper economic and diplomatic cooperation …
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