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Why Is China Emerging As A Superpower? Part-II

Manufacturing, Technology, Infrastructure and the New Global Balance of Power China’s emergence as the United States’ principal strategic...

latest 50

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Why Is China Emerging As A Superpower? Part-I

For nearly half a century following the Second World War, the Soviet Union stood as the United States’ principal strategic adversary. The Cold War...

yesterday 30

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Xi Jinping’s Vision and the China–Pakistan Journey of 75 Years—Part II

One defining feature of President Xi Jinping’s leadership has been his emphasis on discipline, merit and accountability. Soon after taking office in...

thursday 40

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Xi Jinping’s Vision and the China–Pakistan Journey of 75 Years­—Part-I

Seventy-five years ago, on May 21, 1951, Pakistan became one of the earliest countries to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic...

22.07.2026 30

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Ankara summit exposes NATO's Trump dilemma

The Ankara Summit exposes an alliance increasingly forced to manage the temperament of the American presidency while struggling to manage the security...

09.07.2026 30

The Express Tribune Blog

Qamar Bashir

The World Turns to Pakistan to Stop the Iran War

12.04.2026 60

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Pakistan Takes Lead in US–Iran Peace Push

As the Middle East trembles under the roar of fighter jets, the flash of missiles, and the collapse of cities into dust, a parallel story is...

26.03.2026 80

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

USA allies abandon the sinking ship

There is an old maritime warning that when a ship begins to sink, the first to flee are those who once thrived aboard it, and today that metaphor has...

18.03.2026 70

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Climbing the Iran War Ladder

The war now unfolding between Iran on one side and the United States and Israel on the other did not begin merely as a confrontation over nuclear...

16.03.2026 100

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

The Intelligence War Behind the Iran Conflict

In every war there is the battlefield that the world can see—and another that remains invisible. The Iran war has revealed both. Missiles streak...

10.03.2026 60

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Iran War: The Energy Trap for China and Russia

This war may be presented as a fight over nuclear fear, missiles, or regime behavior, but beneath the headlines lies a far larger strategic contest:...

08.03.2026 150

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

The Iran War That Turned Against Trump

The decision to plunge the United States into a direct confrontation with Iran—taken at the urging and strategic direction of Israel—has triggered...

06.03.2026 150

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Strategic Siege: Is Pakistan Being Surrounded

Geopolitics has never been governed by sentiment. Not religion, not shared history, not cultural brotherhood—only interests. The unfolding...

28.02.2026 40

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Tucker Carlson’s Revolt Against America’s Israel Policy

If there is one American media figure who has done more than any other to rupture the long-standing conservative consensus on Israel, it is Tucker...

24.02.2026 90

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Trump Tariffs Ruled Unlawful

On February 20, 2026, the United States Supreme Court delivered a historic rebuke to presidential power, striking down the sweeping tariffs imposed...

22.02.2026 80

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Trump Defies Israel on Iran Strategy

Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent rush to Washington was not routine diplomacy. It was a geopolitical stress test. Since President Donald Trump resumed...

15.02.2026 50

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Epstein Files and the Moral Crisis in the US

12.02.2026 20

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

U.S.–Iran Talks: Peace or a Path to War?

10.02.2026 50

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

America in deadlock: the government shutdown

The United States has once again entered a government shutdown and the impasse created by it revealing both the fragility of its political system and...

10.10.2025 100

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

Journey into the heart of American society

The American economy is again showing signs of vitality. With the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates, the hope of lower borrowing costs has...

04.10.2025 50

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

Atlas: the stranger that stirred the solar system

When news first broke that a foreign body, nicknamed Atlas, had drifted into our solar system from the deep unknown, the story ignited imaginations...

03.10.2025 50

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

What makes the Ukraine-Russia war unique

Ukraine entered this war as the presumed underdog—smaller economy, fewer troops, and seemingly overmatched by a nuclear-armed Russia. Early...

19.09.2025 100

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

Invincibility Shattered

15.06.2025 50

The Nation

Qamar Bashir

Pakistan and Turkey: A Brotherhood Forged in Fire

12.06.2025 60

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

China’s angry rebuttal to Trump’s tariff Tsunami

My reading of China has always been of a country that is sagacious, forgiving and accommodating—an entity flowing naturally through history, shaped...

12.06.2025 40

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

American Scientists on Sale

31.05.2025 60

Daily Times

Qamar Bashir

Why do India and Israel stand alone?

23.05.2025 60

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Why India and Israel Stand Alone?

23.05.2025 80

Daily Times

Qamar Bashir

Pakistan’s Strategic Masterstroke

09.05.2025 150

Daily Times

Qamar Bashir

India’s Blame Game Falls Flat

06.05.2025 70

Daily Times

Qamar Bashir

Indians Stand Against Modi’s Hatred

29.04.2025 40

Daily Times

Qamar Bashir