Tuesday, March 18, 2025

A “Democratic” Hypocrisy

Corruption has been alive and well in Pakistan for over 6 decades. Soon after the Quaid died and with Liaquat Ali Khan subsequently assassinated...

A Defining Moment

Trying to justify his many self-granted "extensions", Musharraf did Raheel Shareef (and the Army) no favour putting him on the spot by campaigning in...

Pak-Qatar’s Game Changing Relations

Most recently, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Qatar. During the visit, both countries signed a "game changing deal" of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)....

That Davos Feeling!

Headquartered in Geneva, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests. For progress to happen, people from...

Economics of Happiness

Economics is a complicated discipline and happiness too. Both have their own parameters, dimensions, dynamics and directions. Both also have their limitations, litmus tests...

Countering Terrorism

The US Defence Intelligence Agency Director Lieutenant General Vincent R Stewart said in his recent testimony to the US Senate Armed Services Committee that...

Gwadar port

Abstract In the changing dynamics of global politics, the burgeoning sea trade is getting rapidly complex with more focus on commercial activities and resultant economic...

CPEC: JIGSAW takes shapes in Balochistan

Balochistan would remain the soft belly of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) for a decade or two. And in this context, the current security...

America’s fresh Middle East headache

Washington's management of its wobbly and contested Middle East policy has just become whole lot more difficult and complicated with the worsening of tensions...

The Conception of God and the Meaning of Prayer

IntroductionDr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal is the best articulated Muslim response to Modernity that the Islamic world has produced in the 20th century. His response...