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Ejaz HaiderThe Friday Times |
In April 1904, famous English geographer, theorist, politician and diplomat, Sir Halford Mackinder writing in The Geographical Journal, presented what...
For Imran Khan’s dedicated workers, what is happening in Islamabad is all about Khan. He has been wronged, ousted through a conspiracy, and...
Donald Trump is back, only the second American president after Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897) to win non-consecutive terms, and he is making...
PROLOGUE Donald Trump is back, only the second American president after Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897) to win non-consecutive terms, and he...
By the time this appears, voters in the United States will be headed to the polls. At last count, 82 million votes had already been cast, a little...
By the time this appears, voters in the United States will be headed to the polls. At last count, 82 million votes had already been cast, a little...
“For generations to come, all will be told of the miracle of the immense planes from the United States bringing in the materiel that meant life to...
Scholars and policymakers have been vexed over the question of how wars can be prevented. Political scientist James D Fearon went looking for...
PREAMBLE On July 24, 2023, Israel’s Knesset passed a controversial bill to strip their highest court of the power to declare government decisions...
There’s much speculation about how and when Israel will respond to Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile attacks at three military targets in Israel....
“Listen up — there’s no war that will end all wars…War is a perfect, self-contained being.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore “On...
At around 3.30 pm local time in southern Lebanon, the southern Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh and eastern Bekaa Valley — Hezbollah strongholds —...
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are...
Former Lieutenant-General Tariq Khan has recently penned a short piece on counterinsurgency, which needs serious reading and discussion. A word about...
Dear Mr Prime Minister, I am taking the presumption of penning this letter in regard to the recent upsurge in violence in Balochistan. I realise...
The harrowing details of another terrible day in Balochistan are known by now so I will eschew them. I want instead to focus on the timing and purpose...
Since the arrest of Faiz Hameed, former Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, we are witnessing a circus which is both amusing and...
As the Gaza ceasefire talks enter the second day in Doha, the situation in the Middle East remains ripe for an impending vertical escalation between...
Former Lieutenant-General Faiz Hameed, also a former Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, is in military custody since August 8....
On June 28, 1914, as Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie passed through a street in Sarajevo, a small group of Serbian nationalists...
On April 10, the second day of Eid al-Fitr, an Israeli drone struck a car in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza carrying three sons and four grandchildren...
In a joint statement on July 10, Washington and Berlin indicated that beginning 2026 the United States will start “episodic deployments of the...
Fifteen years before the failed Europeans revolutions of 1848, a small group of German students, artists and workers seeking to unite Germanic states...
PROLOGUE On January 16, 2023, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sat down with the Dubai-based television channel, Al Arabiya and, among other issues,...
Pressure is mounting on Hamas to accept an Israeli three-phase deal which was first unveiled by United States President Joe Biden on May 31 in a...
A June 10 exclusive report in the United States newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, claims to have reviewed dozens of messages by Hamas’ Gaza...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged from India’s 18th General Election as the single largest party with 240 seats. Its allies in the...
“Immigrants are unarmed; settlers come armed with both weapons and a nationalist agenda… for settlers, there can be no homeland without a state....
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is poised to enter its most devastating phase. The April 30 statement by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
“Where did you come from?” “From Poland.” “When?” “1948.” “When exactly?” “March 1, 1948.” A heavy silence prevailed. All of...
I wrote yesterday that “I find more meat in the argument for patience [by Iran] than immediate retaliation…. That said, the histories of wars tell...
Israel’s drone strike on Iran’s consular building in Damascus on April 1 killed seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, including a...
“‘Listen up — there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on...
Pakistan has finally officially acknowledged striking targets in Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktia provinces. Earlier on Monday, Zabihullah Mujahid,...
In a previous article I wrote about people’s will being the central legal-constitutional principle of government formation and expressed through...
With the formation of governments after the February 8 elections, the discussion on TV channels, newspapers and WhatsApp groups has moved on to who...
Let me first thank those who have voted for the party I lead. This is a trust that places an onerous responsibility on me and the team which will...
In what was widely described as a surprise attack, Iran fired missiles at a compound in Sabz-Koh, a hamlet about 45 kilometres from the Pakistan-Iran...
Iran’s decision to violate the territorial integrity of Pakistan is not only ill-timed, but a poor call at multiple levels. It garnered no military...
Why did Hamas attack Israel on October 7? At the time of writing this, 520 Israeli soldiers had been killed and 12,500 wounded, and over 3,000 have...
After the October 7 attack by Hamas, Al Jazeera brought on a former Israeli general who told the audience that while Israel had failed to detect and...
In his recent WSJ op-ed, Israel’s increasingly unpopular Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes: “Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be...
Whenever the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel ends, it will be studied with great interest by military planners. The war’s outcome remains...
Sixty-three days into the Gaza War at the time of writing this and no one really knows what the endgame is, global punditry aside. Even Israel,...