Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and his Afghan counterpart Mullah Yaqoob sign ceasefire agreement between after talks in Doha, Qatar on Sunday,...
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and his Afghan counterpart Mullah Yaqoob sign ceasefire agreement between after talks in Doha, Qatar on Sunday,...
A State Department contractor adjusts a Pakistan national flag at the State Department in Washington on February 19, 2015. — ReutersThe lunch...
A State Department contractor adjusts a Pakistan national flag at the State Department in Washington on February 19, 2015. — ReutersThe lunch...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meets Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the 11th D-8 Summit in Cairo, Egypt, on December 19,...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meets Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the 11th D-8 Summit in Cairo, Egypt, on December 19,...
PM Shehbaz Sharif meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China on 7 June 2024. — APPUnder prevailing security scenarios at the global and...
PM Shehbaz Sharif meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China on 7 June 2024. — APPUnder prevailing security scenarios at the global and...
An Israeli flag flutters as the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and Jordan's Red Sea resort city of Aqaba are seen in the background, on April 17,...
An Israeli flag flutters as the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and Jordan's Red Sea resort city of Aqaba are seen in the background, on April 17,...
An Israeli flag flutters as the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and Jordan's Red Sea resort city of Aqaba are seen in the background, on April 17,...
An Israeli flag flutters as the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and Jordan's Red Sea resort city of Aqaba are seen in the background, on April 17,...
An Israeli flag flutters as the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and Jordan's Red Sea resort city of Aqaba are seen in the background, on April 17,...
An Israeli flag flutters as the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and Jordan's Red Sea resort city of Aqaba are seen in the background, on April 17,...
GDP growth rate remained woefully low at 2.7% in first ten months of current fiscal year
Pakistan should not remain under any illusion about threat posed by India: it is serious, strategic and enduring in nature
China’s dramatic rise over past four decades has posed serious challenge to US global hegemony
Our failure to do so carries the risk of undermining unity and stability of country
It would not be wrong to claim that subject of grand strategy is terra incognita among Pakistan’s policymakers
In 1903, US supported an insurrection in Colombia to create a new country, Panama, for building Panama Canal
Unfortunately, Pakistan’s current policy, based on wishful thinking, does not measure up to a high standard
Maintenance of international peace and security was projected as main moral purpose of UN
Over-arching US strategic goal since end of cold war has been to ensure its continued global hegemony
Policymakers cannot rely solely on wishful thinking in charting the future course of action
Taliban re-established their rule in country following their dramatic entry into Kabul on August 15, 2021.
US misadventure in Afghanistan led to its biggest military debacle since its defeat in Vietnam
Ostensible purpose of international bodies was to strengthen international peace and security
China’s GDP in purchasing power parity terms overtook America’s in 2014
From the point of view of economic analysis and historical experience, this assumption is deeply flawed
Pakistan, therefore, has no choice but to strengthen its strategic cooperation with China to restore regional strategic balance
A country must undoubtedly have the necessary military power to deter threats to its security
Several issues of critical importance will be waiting for attention of new government as it assumes the reins of power
The parliament house of Pakistan in Islamabad. — AFP/FileAs the country gears up for the general elections in February, formidable internal and...
A picture taken from the southern Israeli city of Sderot on October 25, 2023, shows smoke ascending over the northern Gaza Strip following an...
The Middle East is at the center of momentous developments which have significantly transformed the region over the past decade with far-reaching...
Pakistan, like most of the Muslim world, is faced with the existential challenge of modernity. The challenge was initially posed around the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington last month is a stark reminder of the rapidly developing Indo-US strategic partnership...
It is axiomatic that Pakistan’s regional policy should be anchored to ground realities instead of being based on wishful thinking and pious hopes....
Pakistan – beset as it is with internal political turmoil, the meltdown of the economy, and grave external security threats – is once again in a...
Once again Pakistan is faced with formidable internal and external challenges because of the gross mismanagement of our national affairs by...
Powerful forces are inexorably redrawing the Eurasian geopolitical map. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the latest, but not the only one, of the...
Pakistan currently has many of the familiar symptoms of strategic exhaustion like the slow growth of its economy, rapidly piling up external debt,...
Pakistan’s current political, economic and social crises call for introspection. Politically, the country has been badly destabilized because of...
Pakistan is undoubtedly facing an economic crisis of gigantic proportions caused by the gross mishandling of the economy by successive elected and...
Pakistan is in a state of turmoil, engulfed as it is in a reckless populist campaign spearheaded by Imran Khan and motivated by narrow party...
The success of the no-confidence motion against former Prime Minister Imran Khan and Shehbaz Sharif’s election as prime minister are landmark...
The current confrontation between Russia and the US-led West regarding Ukraine is a development of seismic proportions with far-reaching...
Despite a significant increase in the GDP growth rate – from 3.9 percent to 5.4 percent – for FY2020-21 by the National Accounts Committee ...
The Afghan Taliban’s victory is a momentous development with far-reaching consequences for the peace and stability of Afghanistan, the Asian...
