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Sino-Russian cooperation and the world order

"Beijing and Moscow should work to unite countries of global South and promote the development of the international order in a more just and...

23.07.2025 100

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Rangers Assault Karachi University Professor, Sparking Outcry Over Campus Militarisation

19.07.2025 30

The Friday Times

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Widening diplomatic space for Taliban 2.0

On July 3, Russia became the first country to formally recognise the Taliban regime as a legitimate government. China welcomed the Russian move but...

17.07.2025 100

The Express Tribune

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Cutting The Gordian Knot: Can India And Pakistan Move Beyond Decades Of Deadlock?

Cutting The Gordian Knot: Can India And Pakistan Move Beyond Decades Of Deadlock?
14.07.2025 40

The Friday Times

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Indo-Pak stand-off

India's Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on the occasion of QUAD meeting held in Washington DC the other day again challenged President...

09.07.2025 90

The Express Tribune

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Trump Doctrine 2.0

Starting from President James Monroe in December 1823 till Donald Trump in 2025, policy statements from different American presidents from time to...

02.07.2025 100

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How India’s Mishandling Of Pahalgam Episode Triggered Its Global Isolation?

30.06.2025 40

The Friday Times

Dr Moonis Ahmar

How India’s Mishandling Of Pahelgam Episode Triggered Its Global Isolation?

30.06.2025 50

The Friday Times

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Fragility of diplomatic engagement

In his book, Diplomacy, former US Secretary of State Dr Henry Kissinger writes that diplomacy is the "art of enhancing power." Further, he states,...

24.06.2025 60

The Express Tribune

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Perils Of Regime Change In Iran: Why The World Must Step Back From The Brink

21.06.2025 40

The Friday Times

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Strategic communication

What was lacking in the May 7-10 armed conflict with India was strategic communication — something that is responsible for the prevailing stand-off...

19.06.2025 40

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Should Iran Go Nuclear?

15.06.2025 100

The Friday Times

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Bangladesh's growing predicament

Steps taken by the interim government of Dr Mohammad Yunus like banning Awami League, removing the picture of Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rehman...

11.06.2025 100

The Express Tribune

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The secret of China's success

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu An opium-addicted nation that remained under occupation by six foreign powers is now...

04.06.2025 100

The Express Tribune

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Why To Focus On Pakistan's Internal Fault Lines?

31.05.2025 40

The Friday Times

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Why Awami League banned again

Awami League, the majority party in the December 1970 general elections in Pakistan, was banned on March 26, 1971 when President General Yahya Khan...

28.05.2025 90

The Express Tribune

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Black And White Genocide!

24.05.2025 70

The Friday Times

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Modi's two-front war

After failing to win the latest, four-day war with Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is acting like a wounded lion whose ego is deeply...

21.05.2025 60

The Express Tribune

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Lessons From Miscalculations And False Myths

17.05.2025 10

The Friday Times

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Strategic restraint

On May 10, strategic restraint pulled India and Pakistan from the brink of an all-out war. First, it was US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and then...

14.05.2025 100

The Express Tribune

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Will Indo-Pak Escalation Of Conflict End Soon?

07.05.2025 6

The Friday Times

Dr Moonis Ahmar

The missing diplomatic statesmanship

Why is diplomatic statesmanship missing in the case of the prevailing Indo-Pak tension? And how are the two countries bogged down for the last several...

07.05.2025 80

The Express Tribune

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From PIA To Air Punjab!

03.05.2025 20

The Friday Times

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Academic freedom under attack in US

On April 22, several hundred universities, colleges and other centres of learning in the United States issued a joint statement, severely criticising...

30.04.2025 80

The Express Tribune

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Water As A Double-Edged Sword?

26.04.2025 10

The Friday Times

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The Cost Of Conflict: How The Sindh-Punjab Water Dispute Threatens Pakistan's Unity

24.04.2025 30

The Friday Times

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How PPP Lost Punjab?

19.04.2025 8

The Friday Times

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A city long yearning for peace

On April 15, 1985, a 20-year-old college student Bushra Zaidi was killed by a speeding minibus in Nazimabad neighbourhood of Karachi. Her sister was...

17.04.2025 70

The Express Tribune

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Can the wounds of 1971 be healed?

Pakistan became the first post-colonial state to disintegrate - in 1971. However, the wounds from the Dhaka debacle are still in the healing...

16.12.2024 5

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Sino-Russian partnership: depth and fault lines

From an antagonistic relationship for more than three decades, Moscow and Beijing embarked on mending of fences following the historic visit of the...

09.12.2024 6

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Bangladesh's widening communal fault line

Supporters of the Bangladesh chapter of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) - allegedly patronised by India's RAW and its...

03.12.2024 10

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Our national degeneration after late 70s

The period between 1960s and late 1970s is referred to as the 'golden era' of Pakistan. But what followed was a progressive decline in literally...

26.11.2024 6

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Independent Palestinian state: myth or reality

The extraordinary Arab-Muslim summit held in the Saudi capital Riyadh last week issued a joint statement which called for "providing all forms of...

19.11.2024 40

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Bangladesh: persisting predicament

Three months after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power through a popular movement led by students, political predicament of...

12.11.2024 20

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Race to the White House - will the result rewrite history?

If Kamala Harris beats Donald Trump in the American Presidential Election being held today and occupies the White House, she will become the first...

05.11.2024 10

The Express Tribune

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Towards a multi-polar world: can BRICS, SCO serve as catalyst?

October 2024 witnessed two major global summits take place, having potential ramifications for the reigning world order. The Shanghai Cooperation...

29.10.2024 80

The Express Tribune

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Trump's resilience to seek power again

The American political history will be rewritten, on November 5, 2024, if Donald Trump - a former president twice impeached by the House of...

22.10.2024 40

The Express Tribune

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Occupied Kashmir elections and legitimacy crisis

In line with the Indian Supreme Court verdict several months ago, legislative elections were held in occupied Jammu & Kashmir - in three phases,...

15.10.2024 50

The Express Tribune

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A year of genocide in Gaza

October 7, 2023 is an unforgettable day. It is the day when Hamas attacks inside Israel shattered the myth of Israeli invincibility, followed by...

08.10.2024 5

The Express Tribune

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Power or Pakistan?

Explaining the genesis of the 1971 crisis, GW Choudhury, a federal minister in the cabinet of President Yahya Khan, in his book, The Last Days of...

01.10.2024 10

The Express Tribune

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Pakistan-BD proximity and scepticism in India

Back-to-back events taking place in the context of Pakistan-Bangladesh relations, in the wake of Sheikh Hasina's fall from power on August 5, have...

24.09.2024 10

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Lessons from regime change in Bangladesh

The students' movement in Bangladesh culminated into a situation - the regime change - which was unthinkable a year ago. For more than 15 years,...

17.09.2024 30

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Strategising fence-mending in Pakistan-Bangladesh ties

The ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power has brought forth an opportunity for a paradigm shift in the ties between Pakistan and...

10.09.2024 30

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Regime change and possible rise of Islamists in Bangladesh

In 2010, Hifazat-e-Islam was formed to transform Bangladesh from a secular to an Islamic state. While Jamaat-e-Islami was banned to contest general...

03.09.2024 30

The Express Tribune

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The growing legitimacy crisis in Bangladesh

Three weeks after the regime change in Bangladesh, the question of legitimacy for the interim government is getting serious with each passing day....

27.08.2024 7

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Bangladesh: the four political power players

The dramatic events of August 4 and 5 which led to the collapse of the Government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina plunged Bangladesh into another...

20.08.2024 7

The Express Tribune

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Bangladesh: reality of the second revolution

Dramatic events unfolding in Bangladesh over the past week or so led to the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power and her escape to...

13.08.2024 10

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

The fallacy of KKH

The Karakoram Highway (KKH), referred to as the eighth wonder of the world, is no doubt a strategic source of connectivity between Pakistan and...

06.08.2024 3

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

Hows and whys of Bangladesh’s drift into violence

After years of stability and emergence as a role model in the realm of human and social development, Bangladesh has drifted into a massive wave of...

30.07.2024 3

The Express Tribune

Dr Moonis Ahmar

The myth and reality of Nato’s invincibility

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) on July 9 in Washington DC sends a clear message that the world...

23.07.2024 30

The Express Tribune

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