Beelam Ramzan

Beelam Ramzan

  • Unsung heroes

    Unsung heroes

    Syeda Shehrbano Naqvi, an assistant superintendent with Punjab police speaks during an interview with at her office in Lahore on February 27, 2024....

  • Power relations

    Whenever American policymakers talk about India, they sing praises of its cultural diversity, hailing it as the world’s oldest and largest...

  • Will a bigger BRICS be a bigger challenge?

    The expansion of BRICS has been hailed as “historic” by the bloc’s most stalwart proponent of enlargement, China. The five-member bloc...

  • Trade beyond barriers

    US-China relations have soured over the past few years mostly due to the accusatory tone adopted by successive US presidents. Previously it was...

  • Trips for cooperation

    In the midst of deteriorating relations and bitter friction, a flurry of high-profile American officials’ visits to China has been significant....

  • Where is Pakistan’s soft power?

    At a time when Pakistan is in the grip of civil unrest and the political and economic crisis, its soft power image for which the country struggled...

  • Mystery in the sky

    There is something comic, something mysterious about the Chinese balloon the crossed the US territory. American citizens might have been amused at...

  • The road to competition

    With nearly two years in power, the Biden Administration shows no sign of changing America’s confrontational posture towards China. Even though...

  • Soft power

    Power in international terms has traditionally been defined in ‘hard’ terms in the context of military and economic strength. In the post-cold...

  • Depoliticizing the economy

    Depoliticizing the economy

    Extraordinary situations warrant extraordinary actions. Sometimes opening borders with hostile neighbours for trade and humanitarian assistance...

  • Biden’s China doctrine

    As Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the US on Jan 20, 2021, he took over a cataclysmic course of events – from the devastating surge of...

  • Lessons from Covid

    It is the worst of times, the season of darkness and the winter of despair. It is the ghastly world of disease and death. A time when an unknown...

  • America’s trade wars

    Tariffs were used as a tool in these trade wars to reduce the deficit, boost local manufacturing and encourage consumers to buy American products by...

  • The Cambridge crisis

    The Covid-19 pandemic has upended the fragile health and education system in Pakistan. The brewing crisis has put tremendous pressure on archaic...

  • Covid casualties

    When the entire world is in the precarious grip of Covid-19, the two big economic powers US and China have hit the headlines, making an interesting...

  • The US-China row

    It seemed that tempers were cooling down when the US and China agreed to suspend their trade war in early January 2020. Suddenly the world scenario...

  • Humanitarian crisis

    Pakistan’s government response towards the stranded Pakistani students in Wuhan, the epicentre of deadly Coronavirus, known as Covid-19, has been...