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Imtiaz GulThe Express Tribune |
When did the US actually begin toying with the idea of using threats of separatism as a political instrument to make China conform to the world order?...
We live in very disturbing times. Rights-based approaches have given way to bloc politics. Anything that the West (major NATO members, G-7) does is...
The verbal exchange between Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Qazi Faiz Isa and Justice Athar Minnallah during the hearing of the case on the letter...
The deadly terror strike in Bisham on March 26 that claimed the lives of five Chinese citizens delivered yet another reminder on the grim...
Is Pakistan-Afghan relationship back to square one after the aerial strikes on TTP hideouts in Paktika and Khost provinces of Afghanistan early...
The larger picture emerging post February 8 elections is both explanatory as well as worrying. Should one assume that with the completion of, albeit...
Has the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan boxed itself by snubbing all international calls for relenting on fundamental human rights? Looks so because it...
On February 20, the US vetoed the Security Council resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza, with the UK abstaining. It was the third consecutive veto...
IAway from the maze of Pakistan’s civil, military elitist politics in Islamabad, I recently spent some three weeks at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital in...
E vents of the year 2023 left little doubt that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) continued its destabilisation campaign in the name of ideological...
H owever short-lived and expedient the “ideological squabble” between Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and father Asif Ali Zardari may be, this brought to...
A brutal Nakba-II is underway in Gaza. “The human animals” — as described by the Israeli defence minister — face imminent annihilation or...
As the Muslim world, in particular, wails and condemns yet another round of unprecedented eviction of Palestinians induced by brutal, self-righteous...
The legal status at the United Nations notwithstanding, is it time for Pakistan to wrap up the Kashmir project? Can it become a China to get for...
Two unusual attacks within ten years underscore the intense proxy war that Pakistan has been facing since the birth of the TTP in South Waziristan in...
Are the goal-posts in counter-terrorism changing? Is the battleground expanding beyond Afghanistan and possibly moving into Pakistan? Some recent...
Pakistan is caught in a dangerous tailspin, changing only for the worse, at war within and with hope for a promising future. A case in point is four...