Hussain H Zaidi

The writer is a graduate from a western European university

  • November 01, 2025

    The rise and retreat of the TLP

    Saad Hussain Rizvi, leader of banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan , waves to supporters during a protest against the hike in price of essential...

  • November 01, 2025

    The rise and retreat of the TLP

    Saad Hussain Rizvi, leader of banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan , waves to supporters during a protest against the hike in price of essential...

  • October 17, 2025

    It wasn’t just bad choices

    The representational image shows Pakistan Army soldiers standing alert cordoning off a street leading to the outskirts of Peshawar on September 2,...

  • October 17, 2025

    It wasn’t just bad choices

    The representational image shows Pakistan Army soldiers standing alert cordoning off a street leading to the outskirts of Peshawar on September 2,...

  • October 02, 2025

    The revolution that made a superpower

    Representational image shows people enjoying their time on a hill overlooking Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China May 9, 2025. —...

  • October 02, 2025

    The revolution that made a superpower

    Representational image shows people enjoying their time on a hill overlooking Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China May 9, 2025. —...

  • September 25, 2025

    What does the pact mean?

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sign the landmark Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement in Riyadh, Saudi...

  • September 25, 2025

    What does the pact mean?

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sign the landmark Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement in Riyadh, Saudi...

  • September 18, 2025

    Let the specialists plan

    A man wades through a flooded street during heavy monsoon rains in Rawalpindi on July 17, 2025. — AFPAs the country is rattled by the deluge, the...

  • September 18, 2025

    Let the specialists plan

    A man wades through a flooded street during heavy monsoon rains in Rawalpindi on July 17, 2025. — AFPAs the country is rattled by the deluge, the...

  • September 12, 2025

    Not sweeter than honey

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation...

  • September 12, 2025

    Not sweeter than honey

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation...

  • September 04, 2025

    An alternative to the West?

    Chinese President Xi Jinping poses with member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation during a photo session at the Meijiang Convention...

  • September 04, 2025

    An alternative to the West?

    Chinese President Xi Jinping poses with member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation during a photo session at the Meijiang Convention...

  • August 15, 2025

    When Congress lost an opportunity

    Pakistani and Indian soldiers take part in the flag lowering ceremony at the Pak-India Wagah Border. — AFP/FileThe 1946 Cabinet Mission Plan was a...

  • August 15, 2025

    When Congress lost an opportunity

    Pakistani and Indian soldiers take part in the flag lowering ceremony at the Pak-India Wagah Border. — AFP/FileThe 1946 Cabinet Mission Plan was a...

  • August 07, 2025

    Is 19pc tariff a good deal?

    US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on tariffs, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 2, 2025. —...

  • December 30, 2024

    BB and the art of realpolitik

    Benazir Bhutto, like Indra Gandhi in neighbouring India, did not have to start from scratch

  • November 24, 2024

    Deja vu in East Asia?

    During WWII, Japan’s economy and national morale were plummeted by its doomed alliance with Germany

  • October 29, 2024

    Seniority sidelined

    In parliamentary system, which is in vogue in Pakistan, in theory executive is creation of legislature

  • October 23, 2024

    Geo-economics over geo-politics

    Napoleon once said: “The foreign policy of a country is determined by its geography”

  • October 17, 2024

    The media and the spectacle

    Media not only presents facts but also shapes perspective from which facts are seen and interpreted

  • October 07, 2024

    China at 75 – and beyond

    Two classic validations of the Yin-Yang philosophy are the ascendency of capitalism in the 20th century

  • October 02, 2024

    Age is not just a number

    Decision rests on two variables: increasing life expectancy and growing share of old people in population

  • September 24, 2024

    Our national soap opera

    Pakistani politics is full of twists and turns like a smash-hit soap opera

  • September 15, 2024

    Paradox of depopulation

    The higher relative size of young population, the greater the supply of workforce and less the spending on old age and post-retirement benefits

  • September 08, 2024

    The EU’s Chinese dilemma

    The more the Beijing-Washington relations slide and the more the Chinese economy and market expand, the more intensity the dilemma assumes

  • September 04, 2024

    Afghanistan’s moral dilemma

    After taking over in 2021, Afghan Taliban had announced they would rule country according to Shariah.

  • August 25, 2024

    Downsizing is not the answer

    Cabinet committee on institutional reforms has proposed to cut some 150,000 positions in the federal government

  • August 16, 2024

    Personal, not principled

    If politics is the art of deception, Khan stands above his rivals head and shoulder

  • August 03, 2024

    A tale of two Indias

    India trumpets its secular credentials, but minorities are put to death on slightest suspicion of eating beef

  • July 27, 2024

    Quotas may not be the perfect answer

    Protesters allege that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid is playing a double game

  • July 21, 2024

    The power of the cult

    The only antidote to a powerful cult is its followers’ disenchantment with it

  • July 14, 2024

    The ‘change’ in Iran

    After winning election, Pezeshkian promised that his victory would usher in a new chapter in the country’s history

  • July 08, 2024

    A land of ‘bholas’

    Deceased were part of a massive gathering assembled to listen to the wise words of a ‘holy man’

  • July 02, 2024

    Will the leopard change its spots?

    BJP falls well short of a simple majority of 272

  • June 25, 2024

    Third time’s [not]the charm?

    India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves on the day he votes during the third phase of the general election, in Ahmedabad, India, May 7, 2024. —...

  • June 12, 2024

    Back to the cold war?

    The adversaries during the cold war were not two nations or even ordinary blocs but two systems

  • May 29, 2024

    Capitalism’s enduring dominance

    German philosopher Hegel hit nail on head when he stated that every doctrine contains within it seeds of its destruction

  • April 17, 2024

    A strategic rivalry

    In 2023, the US-China bilateral trade reached $575 billion

  • March 27, 2024

    Moral suasion isn’t the answer

    People shop at a market in Lahore. — AFP/FileWhenever the economy is up the creek, as at present, messages start doing the rounds that if each...

  • March 21, 2024

    Why do reforms elude Pakistan?

    Fiscal deficit, however, becomes a problem, and a serious one if it’s persistently high, when, as in the case of Pakistan

  • March 15, 2024

    Egging on the IMF

    Is Imran Khan's letter an earnest attempt to safeguard genuine democracy in Pakistan?

  • March 02, 2024

    Dynamics of a political oligopoly

    Former PM Shahbaz Sharif, former Present Asif Zardari, and PPP Chairmen Bilawal Bhutto during the press conference on February 20, 2024. —...

  • February 24, 2024

    The rise and rise of fascism

    The chasm between the two often prepares the ground for the rise of such sinister movements as fascism, populism and cultism

  • January 05, 2024

    A land of ladlas

    In the political context, a ladla is one who gets preferential treatment or undue favours from the people or institutions that matter

  • December 29, 2023

    Elections and elitism

    As the nation gears up for national elections, the question that dominates media and political discourse is: which party will carry the day? Will it...

  • November 06, 2023

    Trading electables

    A representational image of the National Assembly session. — AFP/FilePolitical activities will heat up in the wake of the announcement of the...