US-North Korea Summit By Shahid M Amin
FEW summit-level meetings in recent times have generated as much world interest as the one between US President Donald Trump …
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TRADE war between the two biggest economies of the world — the US and China — has already started showing …
Read MoreDonald Trump Upends The Global Order By Shahid Javed Burki
The 2018 annual meeting of the Group of 7 was held in Canada at a resort near Quebec City. The …
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Retreat is the Greatest Threat to Global Security By Philip Stephens
Donald Trump has had quite a week. At the G7 summit in Canada the US president repudiated the rules-based international …
Read MoreWhat "America First" Will Cost Europe By Jeremy Shapiro
The new U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, is quickly becoming Europe’s favorite bête noire. He seems to share his …
Read MoreThe US-North Korea Summit By Dr. Ahmad Rashid Malik
The summit between the United States and North Korea was held in Singapore on 12 June, making a big deal …
Read MoreTrump-Kim Summit | Editorial
Before the Trump Kim Summit, rumours were that it was an arduous task to bring the two leaders on the …
Read MoreThe ‘Indo-Pacific’ and Pakistan By Zamir Akram
On June 2nd, the US renamed its Pacific Command, the oldest and largest American military setup in the Asia-Pacific, as …
Read MoreAmerican Embassy Shift By Nafisa Hoodbhoy
THE Trump administration’s decision to shift the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem last month could not have come …
Read MoreAfghan Ceasefire | Editorial
IN a long, bloody, seemingly endless war, there have been few moments of hope. The major protagonists, including perhaps a …
Read MoreHistory’s Geopolitical Pivot By Munir Akram
IN his 1904 treatise, The Geographical Pivot of History, Halford Mackinder theorised that whoever controls the Eurasian heartland — from …
Read MoreChina Hosts Russia, Iran for Summit as US Tensions Rise
Qingdao, China: Chinese President Xi Jinping will open late Saturday a two-day regional security summit attended by Russia, Iran and …
Read MoreIndo-French Nuclear Cooperation — Meltdown Waiting to Happen? By Ali Raza
In 1945, the United States used Nagasaki and Hiroshima, two major cities of Japan, as testing sites for nuclear weapons, …
Read MoreWar and Peace | Editorial
The vast sprawling wars of the 20th century are unlikely ever to be replicated, and have been replaced by clusters …
Read MoreSyrian Conflict | Editorial
There are many actors to blame for the humanitarian disaster that has befallen Syria since the outbreak of the civil …
Read MoreUncertainty Over Trump-Kim Summit Ends By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON: The White House confirmed on Tuesday that the historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader …
Read MoreReckoning United Nations By Baber Ali Bhatti
Whether in Syria, Bosnia, Kashmir, or Palestine, people are dying in millions. Series of sufferings, lynchings, and shootings are a …
Read MoreAtomic Weapons and American Policy By J. Robert Oppenheimer
IT is possible that in the large light of history, if indeed there is to be history, the atomic bomb …
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