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PAKISTAN’S politics is still dominated by dynasties and family networks that manage to retain their grip over the country’s top political offices...
THREE words said it all. “Judiciary’s wings clipped.” This was the banner headline in an English newspaper after adoption of the controversial...
https://arab.news/pz7nc Much speculation was fueled by the recent visit to Islamabad of India’s foreign minister S. Jaishankar to attend a meeting...
BOB Woodward writes the ultimate ‘insider’ accounts about American presidents, politics and foreign policy. He is one of the duo of journalists...
THE resounding message from occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s recent legislative elections is rejection of India’s Aug 2019 action that robbed the...
THE Middle East is precariously poised on the brink of a full-blown regional war that has been widely feared for months. Israel’s assassination of...
THE contrast could not have been more telling. In his farewell speech to the UN General Assembly last week, President Joe Biden spoke proudly about...
https://arab.news/jp8ac The world is passing through an unsettled time with mounting geopolitical tensions and economic volatility creating a...
AT a time when the country is facing mounting economic, political and security challenges, the government has been expending most of its energy on...
PAKISTAN is becoming increasingly marginalised in international affairs. It is no longer able to shape the strategic environment in its neighbourhood...
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s recent visit to Beijing indicated an effort by both countries to de-escalate tensions ahead of the...
CHARACTERISED by drift, Pakistan’s foreign policy appears to be rudderless. It has neither clarity nor coherence to meet complex regional and...
INDIA’S election commission has announced that polls to elect the legislative assembly in Jammu and Kashmir will be held in three phases on Sept 18,...
https://arab.news/byce2 Amid some uncertainty about a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government hopes the Fund’s...
WITH the Middle East in turmoil and Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza having entered its eleventh month, a book that examines the region’s political...
ISRAEL’S criminal actions have again pushed the Middle East to the edge of the precipice, unleashing fears of a wider conflict. Ten months of...
FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurungzeb acknowledged last week that Pakistan was seeking debt relief from China and other bilateral lenders to plug a...
PROSPECTS for diplomatic engagement between India and Pakistan remain bleak. Any expectation that a multilateral summit that Islamabad will host in...
IF the Shehbaz Sharif government goes ahead with the decision to ban Imran Khan’s PTI, it could plunge the country into renewed turmoil, even chaos....
https://arab.news/v2dwc In about a month’s time, Pakistan will be marking the 77th anniversary of its independence. This will be a moment of...
IN what is regarded as the biggest election year in history, with voters in over 70 countries casting the ballot in 2024, some common features have...
THE Shehbaz Sharif government faces multiple challenges — from the opposition, its political allies and from growing public discontent with a dire...
ON his first visit to Srinagar after he was re-elected prime minister, Narendra Modi declared that elections in occupied Jammu and Kashmir would soon...
AT a time when democracy across the world is under challenge, there have recently been a number of developments, some that may shape its future...
PAKISTAN today is at an inflection point. It faces unparalleled challenges in an environment of political polarisation, economic fragility and...
THE BJP’s electoral victory has handed Narendra Modi a third consecutive term in office. In a closely fought election, the Congress party’s INDIA...
IT is widely believed that Pakistan’s geostrategic location has been a great asset for the country. But it has also been an enormous challenge. In...
WITH election politics dictating current US foreign policy moves, Washington’s actions are driving China and Russia much closer in a strengthened...
PAKISTAN no longer faces an economic emergency as it did last year when it teetered on the edge of sovereign debt default. It has come out of that...
The outlook for India-Pakistan relations is troubled if Modi returns to power.
INCREASED diplomatic engagement between the US and China has helped to bring down the temperature in their fraught relationship. But it has not...
https://arab.news/j4k5v With all of Pakistan’s human development indicators having declined in recent years, a timely new report asks a pivotal...
THE best of times and arguably the worst of times. This is how an important new book sees what advanced artificial intelligence and biotechnology can...
THE spectre of a wider conflict still looms in the Middle East after Israel’s ostensibly ‘limited’ attack on Iran. The escalatory cycle of...
https://arab.news/5w6kr China’s Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong recently wrote an op-ed in a Pakistani newspaper in which he reiterated his...
THE global debate over governance continues — what constitutes good governance and how it helps to determine the fate and fortunes of nations. It is...
Recent years have been tumultuous in Pakistan’s politics. Even by the standards of the country’s tortuous history and its record of instability,...
SIX months on, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows no sign of abating. With over 33,000 Palestinians killed and more than 75,000 injured by...
https://arab.news/yj9jp The most consequential task of the Shehbaz Sharif government is extricating Pakistan’s ailing economy from the critical...
PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN relations have been on a downward trajectory. They plunged to a new low earlier this month when Pakistan carried out air strikes...
CHINA’S rise as a global power has evoked different reactions across the world. Much of the Global South has welcomed this and seen it as an...
https://arab.news/4ka7z Pakistan is in the midst of a growing human development crisis with most indicators of literacy, education, health, poverty...
WITH a new government in place in Islamabad, what is the outlook for Pakistan-India relations? Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s congratulatory...
WHAT will US foreign policy look like under Donald Trump 2.0? Governments and people across the world have already started assessing this as the...
https://arab.news/zp5np In its very first sessions, Pakistan’s newly elected National Assembly was the scene of protests and rowdyism by...
THE new government has assumed power in an environment marked by political turmoil, polarisation and controversy over the election. In his second...
WHEN PML-N and PPP leaders forged a power-sharing deal last week and announced they had the numbers to form a government, conspicuous by its absence...
https://arab.news/5wyyq The February 8 elections in Pakistan delivered a divided mandate with no party able to secure a majority. This has made...
EXPECTATIONS that the election would put Pakistan on the road to political stability have clearly not been met. The election produced a fractured...