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If Kamala Harris beats Donald Trump in the American Presidential Election being held today and occupies the White House, she will become the first...
October 2024 witnessed two major global summits take place, having potential ramifications for the reigning world order. The Shanghai Cooperation...
The American political history will be rewritten, on November 5, 2024, if Donald Trump - a former president twice impeached by the House of...
In line with the Indian Supreme Court verdict several months ago, legislative elections were held in occupied Jammu & Kashmir - in three phases, from...
October 7, 2023 is an unforgettable day. It is the day when Hamas attacks inside Israel shattered the myth of Israeli invincibility, followed by the...
Explaining the genesis of the 1971 crisis, GW Choudhury, a federal minister in the cabinet of President Yahya Khan, in his book, The Last Days of...
Back-to-back events taking place in the context of Pakistan-Bangladesh relations, in the wake of Sheikh Hasina's fall from power on August 5, have...
The students' movement in Bangladesh culminated into a situation - the regime change - which was unthinkable a year ago. For more than 15 years,...
The ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power has brought forth an opportunity for a paradigm shift in the ties between Pakistan and...
In 2010, Hifazat-e-Islam was formed to transform Bangladesh from a secular to an Islamic state. While Jamaat-e-Islami was banned to contest general...
Three weeks after the regime change in Bangladesh, the question of legitimacy for the interim government is getting serious with each passing day....
The dramatic events of August 4 and 5 which led to the collapse of the Government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina plunged Bangladesh into another web...
Dramatic events unfolding in Bangladesh over the past week or so led to the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power and her escape to India....
The Karakoram Highway (KKH), referred to as the eighth wonder of the world, is no doubt a strategic source of connectivity between Pakistan and China....
After years of stability and emergence as a role model in the realm of human and social development, Bangladesh has drifted into a massive wave of...
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) on July 9 in Washington DC sends a clear message that the world with...
There is no short cut to becoming a vibrant state. The struggle for success is a long one, which must be led by leaders possessing critical thinking...
Railway is the backbone of connectivity and economy of any country. Pakistan Railways got a jolt when the Executive Committee of National Economic...
History was made on June 6, 1944 when Allied forces landed in Normandy, near the coast of France, and began the process of Nazi Germany’s defeat in...
The UN-sponsored talks on Afghanistan to be held in Doha, Qatar on June 30 and July 1 will be crucial because the Afghan Taliban government has been...
June 4, 2024 is termed a historic day in India when most of the exit polls which had predicted a landslide victory for Narendra Modi and his BJP in...
Strategic planning means a set of policies whereby state aims to achieve multiple objectives in a given period of time. When a leadership is bold,...
History was made when on May 24 the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in a mandatory ruling of 2-13, asked Israel to cease its military operations...
As Indian elections are more than half way through and results are expected to be announced on June 4, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is upping his...
The summer of 1968 witnessed massive student protests at the American and western universities against Washington’s involvement in the Vietnam War....
In a press conference on May 8, Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) squarely held the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) responsible...
After almost four years after Afghanistan’s takeover by Taliban, there is no qualitative change in the status of women in Afghanistan. In a UN...
With a debt of $34 trillion as against its GDP of $25.44 trillion, the United States has passed a foreign aid bill worth $95 billion. This huge...
With inflation rate hovering around 25% and frequent escalation in the prices of petroleum products, gas, electricity and other essential items,...
In 1947, the UN approved Palestine partition plan and in 1948 Israel was admitted as a member of the UN. But, it should be known that in the UN...
The myth of Israel’s invincibility, owing to its missile defense system known as the Iron Dome and American President Joe Biden’s 'ironclad'...
When on October 7 last year, Hamas struck Israel with a surprise attack, the Jewish state was gripped with fear and panic because after years of...
Another case of blatant nepotism and violation of merit occurred on March 25, when the Principal of Aitchison College, Lahore, Michael A Thompson, an...
The province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is highly vulnerable to organised waves of violence and cross-border terrorism as reflected in the recent...
On the eve of Indian elections, the Modi regime notified rules of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). In December 2020, the Indian...
Donald Trump was never a dead horse. Having faced defeat in November 2020 presidential elections, he still refused to accept that he had lost to...
“This is a historic day. Sweden will now take its rightful place at NATO’s table, with an equal say in shaping NATO policies and decisions. After...
On February 22, 1974, on the occasion of second Islamic summit held in Lahore, Pakistan made a historic decision to recognise Bangladesh as Dhaka was...
S ecurity issues — ranging from the sustained war in Ukraine, Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinians of Gaza, growing Sino-American schism...
F or the third time in its political history, Pakistan finds itself stuck in a dead end after a general election. The first time the country came to...
C hina is the only United Nations member state so far that has granted de jure recognition to the Taliban regime which rose to power in Afghanistan in...
In terms of water conflicts, Pakistan is a unique country because apart from having water issues with India and Afghanistan, it has water conflicts...
At the inauguration of the Ram Temple built in place of the demolished 16th century Babri Masjid, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared:...
I t was South Africa’s determination to prove Israel guilty of genocide in Gaza that it approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The...
The year 2024 in South Asia will lead to formidable changes, transforming the political landscape of the region. With elections in Bangladesh on...
I f India, China and Russia congratulated Sheikh Hasina on securing a ‘landslide victory’ in the January 7 general elections, the US and the UK...
P akistan has long been lacking a leadership that can focus on remedying its fragile economy, political malaise, bad governance, etc to transform the...
F inally, Pakistan is entering the election mode but political parties are still unable to mobilise voters in support of their respective programmes....
W hen in 1948 the world’s first Jewish state came into being on the land of Palestine, its transformation from a nascent state to the world’s...
F ollowing the verdict of Indian Supreme Court whereby it rejected petitions challenging Jammu & Kashmir Reorganization Act of August 5, 2019 and the...