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Shahid Javed BurkiThe Express Tribune |
Given the way the global system is being restructured, a considerable amount of attention is being given to the two regions that are physically at a...
Many countries in what is now called the Global South need to move away from the old model of development that produced rates of economic growth that...
The question posed in the title of this essay has a simple answer. It is in fact another question. How will the Muslim world beyond Palestine react to...
In several of my earlier writings, I have treated Pakistan’s location as a positive feature in its economic situation. It could become a major...
Serious scholarship is being devoted to a burgeoning discipline known as AI safety. AI, of course, stands for artificial intelligence which has...
Pakistan has a serious shortage of reasonably priced energy which is affecting the rate of growth of the economy and causing hardship to the people...
International trade agreements have always been hard to reach. That was not the case with other international treaties. Whereas, it took fifty years...
The Burki Institute of Public Policy (BIPP) I chair in Lahore published its 2023 annual report late last year. Anticipating what the newly elected...
There was expectation that the elections held on February 8 would significantly clear the political air. They would bring into being a government in...
M ore elections will be held in the world in 2024 than ever before. Five of these will be in the countries with large populations. These are in...
If you are a reasonably educated and trained Pakistani and finds that available jobs in the country don’t compensate well, migrating to the United...
If more evidence was needed to point towards the coming climate catastrophe, it came with the release of the report by Copernicus Climate Change...
Having aided its proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen, Iran decided to expand the area of its conflict by attacking posts in three countries, that are,...
When my wife and I called on Satrtaj Aziz in March 2023, he had then celebrated his 94th birthday. He was in remarkably good health. That was the...
If more evidence was needed to point towards the coming climate catastrophe, it came with the release of the report by the Europe-based Copernicus...
As Israel’s involvement in the Gaza Strip becomes more complicated by the day and as the television’s coverage of the damage the Israeli attack...
Going back to last week’s article titled ‘The story of other India’, I will today examine why Washington may be distancing itself a little from...
Of late, English language newspapers in the United States and Britain have been covering India from two very different perspectives. One angle adopted...
In the final session held on the night between December 13 and 14, the delegates to the 28th meeting of the Conference of Parties, or COP28, reached...
Henry Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut on November 29 at the age of one hundred years. He was remembered in several obituaries that appeared...
In the column on the growing generational divide published in this space last week, I promised to follow up on some of the points I then made. This is...
There is now a serious and noticeable generational divide in the United States which would have consequences for the country’s relations with...
Presidents Jo Biden and Xi Jinping met in San Francisco on Wednesday, November 15, on the sidelines of the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic...
While Washington is working to build alliances in the Indo-Pacific region, the Chinese are turning towards the Middle East to advance their global...
Big change is coming to the world. This is not entirely because of global warming. Change is also occurring because of a sharp decline in the rate of...
What will happen after peace of some sort comes to Gaza? Several analysts asking this question have gone back to history and cited Franklin Delano...
On October 7, 2023, fighters allied with the group called Hamas that runs Gaza territory attacked several places in Israel. They were able to break...
The Sikh problem came to the attention of the world in a way that India and its prime minister least expected. The allegation by Justin Trudeau,...
It is not unfair to say that India has a “Sikh problem”. I will examine this in two articles, the first of which appears today. The Khalistan...
There is a growing impression in the foreign policy community that the United States and China are heading towards a cold war situation. Some believe...
Sharply deteriorating relations between the United States and China will have serious consequences for the world. Relations between these two...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to put himself in a prominent place on the world stage. When he goes abroad, as he did while on a...
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is creating the base on which the world would build its economic structures and social systems. This will be done by...