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In the wake of near daily attacks on security forces and civilians in Balochistan and KP, it is evident that Pakistan needs to reassess its strategy...
The spectacle of the verbal spat between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky in
In a series of inflammatory statements, US President Donald Trump has proposed a ‘radical reimagining’ of Gaza — one that
The recent strikes by Pakistan on TTP sanctuaries inside Afghanistan have inflamed Afghan rhetoric once again about sovereignty.
The recent strikes by Pakistan on Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan sanctuaries inside Afghanistan have inflamed Afghan rhetoric once
On December 18, the United States Department of State announced that the US had sanctioned four Pakistani entities, including the National...
In April 1904, famous English geographer, theorist, politician and diplomat, Sir Halford Mackinder writing in The Geographical Journal, presented...
For Imran Khan’s dedicated workers, what is happening in Islamabad is all about Khan. He has been wronged, ousted through a conspiracy, and...
Donald Trump is back, only the second American president after Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897) to win non-consecutive terms, and he is...
PROLOGUE Donald Trump is back, only the second American president after Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897) to win non-consecutive terms, and...
By the time this appears, voters in the United States will be headed to the polls. At last count, 82 million votes had already been cast, a little...
By the time this appears, voters in the United States will be headed to the polls. At last count, 82 million votes had already been cast, a little...
“For generations to come, all will be told of the miracle of the immense planes from the United States bringing in the materiel that meant life to...
Scholars and policymakers have been vexed over the question of how wars can be prevented. Political scientist James D Fearon went looking for...
PREAMBLE On July 24, 2023, Israel’s Knesset passed a controversial bill to strip their highest court of the power to declare government decisions...
There’s much speculation about how and when Israel will respond to Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile attacks at three military targets in Israel....
“Listen up — there’s no war that will end all wars…War is a perfect, self-contained being.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore “On...
At around 3.30 pm local time in southern Lebanon, the southern Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh and eastern Bekaa Valley — Hezbollah strongholds —...
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these...
Former Lieutenant-General Tariq Khan has recently penned a short piece on counterinsurgency, which needs serious reading and discussion. A word...
Dear Mr Prime Minister, I am taking the presumption of penning this letter in regard to the recent upsurge in violence in Balochistan. I realise...
The harrowing details of another terrible day in Balochistan are known by now so I will eschew them. I want instead to focus on the timing and...
Since the arrest of Faiz Hameed, former Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, we are witnessing a circus which is both amusing...
As the Gaza ceasefire talks enter the second day in Doha, the situation in the Middle East remains ripe for an impending vertical escalation...
Former Lieutenant-General Faiz Hameed, also a former Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, is in military custody since August...
On June 28, 1914, as Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie passed through a street in Sarajevo, a small group of Serbian...
On April 10, the second day of Eid al-Fitr, an Israeli drone struck a car in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza carrying three sons and four...
In a joint statement on July 10, Washington and Berlin indicated that beginning 2026 the United States will start “episodic deployments of the...
Fifteen years before the failed Europeans revolutions of 1848, a small group of German students, artists and workers seeking to unite Germanic...
PROLOGUE On January 16, 2023, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sat down with the Dubai-based television channel, Al Arabiya and, among other issues,...