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Shahzad ChaudhryThe News International |
Ask the Iranians, and they will entirely endorse the claim. A growing number of international analysts call it Iran's nuclear option. Iran's...
Even as the US-Israel's Iran war hurtles along – haltingly or otherwise, with intermittent prospects of peace – some lessons have already...
North Korea has a nuclear weapon, and it isn't really a friend of the United States; in fact, while the war was on between Iran and the US-Israel...
The Iran war has stagnated. The two sides are in a state of pervasive attack and defence without causing a change in position, physically, politically...
Donald Trump may have set out to change the face of the Middle East by launching a 'war of choice' or one forced on him by Israel; it seems...
President Trump asked his point man, Steve Witkoff, "Why, under this pressure, with the amount of sea power and naval power over there, why...
Balochistan has been and remains a bleeding sore. Regardless of the characterisation we attach to it, it is Pakistan's number one problem awaiting a...
This year, Davos was revealing. It reinforced a perception that the world was at the cusp of a major restructuring, even if it was having trouble...
2026 will be consequential in many ways. What has been unleashed by Donald Trump in Venezuela, and what is likely to find further expression in...
George W Bush, President of the US between 2001 and 2009, had a veritable group of hawks around him. Dick Cheney served as his Vice President; Colin...
There are a few givens: One, that following November 2021 - some would argue the cracks had begun before that in the summer - the system had broken...
As a nation, our challenges evolve and newer frontiers beckon. Of those, the population explosion and its underlying aggravation are what we must turn...
This is my country's fourth front, with the three already open in surveying and defending both eastern and western borders and fighting terror in our...
Unambiguous command and control is the key to effective use of the military instrument. This principle cannot be violated in a military system that...
The Joint Chiefs of Staff military system first came into being in the US in 1947. It saw a major overhaul and a redefinition through the...
However one may characterise the current political arrangement — hybrid, chaperoned or cooperative — it is unique. Since Imran Khan's PTI was...
Afghanistan is a sore, but it has been so for all the years of Pakistan's existence. More importantly, we have lived through it and kept a decent...
Following Pakistan's stellar performance on the battlefield and in foreign policy front there should have been a more careful calibration of how those...
On his election to his second term as the President, Donald Trump said, "The world has gone crazy." Eight months down into his tenure at the helm, the...
If there is one book that I would recommend to my readers in these confusing and tumultuous times in global affairs — a rule-based order has run...
By now everyone in Pakistan who watch TV should know the science and interrelationship of cloud and glacial burst, flash floods, deforestation and...
India's External Affairs Minister - EAM hereon - Excellency Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in another recent declaration stated that India has three...
To determine why PTI is not finding success it is important for the PTI to find an honest answer to the above dilemma. It calls itself a 'movement'...
I am visiting abroad and not able to keep up with the 24/7 television news which would sink a day into an unending cycle of how great we are doing,...
We old-timers have a problem. We remain stuck in a groove. But then there is that age-old maxim: the more things change, the more they remain the...
Ten days after the ceasefire between Iran and Israel the consensus among most observers, including the IAEA, is that Iran has saved enough fissile...
The US blundered into an unnecessary war. Without a rationale and out of some unexplained compulsion, stories have emerged how Trump made the decision...
Slugfest, yes; but of no ordinary consequences. It will take the world to keep it contained. Iran in the western construct is Middle East, not West...
Right or wrong, fallacious or prudent, assertive or devastative, India has announced its intent. She calls it the 'new normal' and call it what we...
Three things stand out from the four-day war: one, it began on a conventional note but quickly progressed to what is increasingly likely to constitute...
Who did Pahalgam, no one may ever know. India has stonewalled any attempt by Pakistan and the vociferous appeal by entire international community to...
The military, especially the air force, made the nation proud. But what is done, is in the past, however stellar it was. Today and tomorrow is another...
Many moons ago, strategists from both India and Pakistan had concluded that war of the type that the two countries fought in 1965 or 1971 was not an...
Trump was sworn in as the disruptor-in-chief when he became the President of the US. With both houses of Congress in his control he could unleash what...
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