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Middle East edging towards persistent crises

Middle East edging towards persistent crises
24.03.2025 80

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Religion in politics

Religion in politics
17.03.2025 100

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Pakistan living in a turbulent world

10.03.2025 100

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Germany has a new leader and Trump has a new challenge

02.03.2025 40

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The world is becoming smaller

24.02.2025 60

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The new cold war

17.02.2025 100

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The world order after WWII

10.02.2025 100

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Trump takes America on a different course

03.02.2025 70

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Reemergence of Islamic extremism

26.01.2025 50

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Religion in politics and economics

20.01.2025 100

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Reemergence of Islamic extremism

12.01.2025 50

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Bringing just governance back to Syria

Syria is often described as the Middle East's pivot, affecting what happens around it. Its evolution needs to be watched and studied. The country...

05.01.2025 40

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Trump's likely pressure on Iran

As President-elect Doanld Trump is planning to take office on January 20, 2025 as the 47th President of the United States, his country's approach...

29.12.2024 4

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Developing countries need debt relief

No matter which way you look at the numbers, they tell the same story: in the Global South – the name now given to the developing world – Pakistan...

22.12.2024 3

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How developments in Syria will affect the world around it

For several years while the conflict in Syria was largely frozen, various opposition forces were quietly preparing to more effectively challenge...

19.12.2024 5

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Middle East edging towards sustainable peace

Recent events in the Middle East may mean that the region, after years of conflict, could be heading towards sustainable peace. This has become...

08.12.2024 4

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Trade tariffs as an instrument of international policy

When Donald Trump who made a name for himself in the construction industry in New York decided to enter the field of politics he promised that were...

01.12.2024 8

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Ageing of populations

World population is growing but not as rapidly as was the case in the past. Growth rates are high in some areas but are coming down in several...

24.11.2024 2

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Trump's victory is not China's loss

Even though there are a couple of months left before Donald Trump moves back into the White House –something he will do on January 20, 2025 -...

17.11.2024 3

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India's growing Sikh problem

The Indian government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not willing to concede that the Sikh agitation inside the country as well as...

10.11.2024 4

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How demographic change will likely affect the global order

Significant demographic changes are occurring across the globe that are likely to affect relations among nations. Immigration has become a major...

03.11.2024 3

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Modi's Mussalman problem

Having tried hard to create a nation out of extreme diversity, India had initially succeeded in the effort. That was the conclusion reached by the...

27.10.2024 3

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Iran's nuclear ambition

Iran is in a neighborhood in which several countries have equipped themselves with nuclear weapons. Other than the established nuclear powers –...

20.10.2024 4

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Pakistan may become a player in the evolving Mideast drama

Some of the actors in the deepening drama in the Middle East live either on Pakistan's volatile borders or not far from it. Iran is one of...

13.10.2024 3

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Diaspora's role in promoting health care in Pakistan

Physicians of Pakistani origin living and working in the United States constitute an important part of their country's diaspora. The size of the...

06.10.2024 3

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Global economy's troubled spots

If you are looking for trouble spots, you will find many all over the world. The United States and China have problems caused by the mishandling on...

29.09.2024 2

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Bharat and the idea of India

This is the second of the two articles on the presence of the Indian diaspora in the United States and how it could affect relations between the...

23.09.2024 10

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Indians in the United States

It is critical for the policymakers in Pakistan to understand how Indians both inside the country and those in the large diasporas in the West are...

15.09.2024 3

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China and India in the multipolar global order

There is a growing fear of China among the administrations that have come to power in Washington since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It...

09.09.2024 3

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Women and political power

Late on the evening of Friday, August 23, 2024, the United States Democratic Party gave its full and enthusiastic support to Vice President Kamala...

02.09.2024 4

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The Taliban celebrate three years in office

Americans withdrew their forces from Kabul on August 15, 2021 and six days later they left the large Bagram Airbase. The Americans had been in the...

26.08.2024 4

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Problems posed by rapid demographic change

Movements of people have mattered in Pakistan from the time of its birth almost eight decades ago as a predominantly Muslim state. As I estimated...

19.08.2024 10

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Pakistan and the great powers

The past influences the present. Historians have a term for this phenomenon: they call it "path dependence". In the article today, I will explore...

12.08.2024 3

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Global warming revisited

In a couple of earlier articles, I have covered the subject of global warming and discussed how the phenomenon is affecting the world at large. I...

05.08.2024 2

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Should we expect change in Iran?

In my article published in this space last week, I took note of the suspicion in some quarters in the United States that Iran may have been...

29.07.2024 1

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Understanding the assassination attempt on Trump

It was inevitable that the failed assassination attempt aimed at former American President Donald Trump would result in a great deal of...

22.07.2024 2

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