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China’s Fusion Breakthrough: Death Knell for the Oil Age

For more than a century, global economic and geopolitical power has revolved around energy. Coal powered industrialization; oil transformed...

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Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

From crushing Iran to avoiding economic catastrophe in the USA

Nearly six months later, President Donald Trump is no longer speaking confidently about unconditional victory. He is talking about negotiations and...

12.08.2026 30

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

The Makkah Defence Pact: The Threats Behind the Alliance

The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan is being described as a Muslim version of NATO. Turkish Foreign...

10.08.2026 80

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Does Pakistan Need More Provinces—or a Democratic Reset?

The latest restrictions imposed on international journalists in Pakistan have once again exposed a deeper crisis of governance. Under the new...

09.08.2026 300

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

How Iran emerged as fourth centre of global power

The Iran war began with the expectation that overwhelming American and Israeli firepower would bring Tehran to its knees within days. Instead, the...

05.08.2026 100

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Trump: The Emperor Is Naked

Former United Nations weapons inspector and U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter describes the outcome of the Iran War bluntly: “We...

02.08.2026 80

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Iran and Türkiye: The Powers Destined to Reshape the Middle East

The war against Iran may ultimately be remembered not as the conflict that restored American and Israeli dominance, but as the turning point that...

01.08.2026 60

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Trump’s Unilateral Pause, as Ukraine Enters the Iran War

For nearly two weeks, the United States has presented the renewed air campaign against Iran as a demonstration of overwhelming military superiority....

29.07.2026 50

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Why Is China Emerging As A Superpower?—Part-III

Recognizing China’s rapid rise, successive American administrations—Republican and Democratic alike—have fundamentally reoriented U.S. national...

27.07.2026 150

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Why Is China Emerging As A Superpower? Part-II

Manufacturing, Technology, Infrastructure and the New Global Balance of Power China’s emergence as the United States’ principal strategic...

26.07.2026 150

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Why Is China Emerging As A Superpower? Part-I

For nearly half a century following the Second World War, the Soviet Union stood as the United States’ principal strategic adversary. The Cold War...

25.07.2026 50

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Xi Jinping’s Vision and the China–Pakistan Journey of 75 Years—Part II

One defining feature of President Xi Jinping’s leadership has been his emphasis on discipline, merit and accountability. Soon after taking office in...

23.07.2026 70

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Xi Jinping’s Vision and the China–Pakistan Journey of 75 Years­—Part-I

Seventy-five years ago, on May 21, 1951, Pakistan became one of the earliest countries to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic...

22.07.2026 40

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Ankara summit exposes NATO's Trump dilemma

The Ankara Summit exposes an alliance increasingly forced to manage the temperament of the American presidency while struggling to manage the security...

09.07.2026 50

The Express Tribune Blog

Qamar Bashir

The World Turns to Pakistan to Stop the Iran War

12.04.2026 70

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Pakistan Takes Lead in US–Iran Peace Push

As the Middle East trembles under the roar of fighter jets, the flash of missiles, and the collapse of cities into dust, a parallel story is...

26.03.2026 90

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

USA allies abandon the sinking ship

There is an old maritime warning that when a ship begins to sink, the first to flee are those who once thrived aboard it, and today that metaphor has...

18.03.2026 80

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Climbing the Iran War Ladder

The war now unfolding between Iran on one side and the United States and Israel on the other did not begin merely as a confrontation over nuclear...

16.03.2026 150

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

The Intelligence War Behind the Iran Conflict

In every war there is the battlefield that the world can see—and another that remains invisible. The Iran war has revealed both. Missiles streak...

10.03.2026 70

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Iran War: The Energy Trap for China and Russia

This war may be presented as a fight over nuclear fear, missiles, or regime behavior, but beneath the headlines lies a far larger strategic contest:...

08.03.2026 200

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

The Iran War That Turned Against Trump

The decision to plunge the United States into a direct confrontation with Iran—taken at the urging and strategic direction of Israel—has triggered...

06.03.2026 150

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Strategic Siege: Is Pakistan Being Surrounded

Geopolitics has never been governed by sentiment. Not religion, not shared history, not cultural brotherhood—only interests. The unfolding...

28.02.2026 50

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Tucker Carlson’s Revolt Against America’s Israel Policy

If there is one American media figure who has done more than any other to rupture the long-standing conservative consensus on Israel, it is Tucker...

24.02.2026 100

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Trump Tariffs Ruled Unlawful

On February 20, 2026, the United States Supreme Court delivered a historic rebuke to presidential power, striking down the sweeping tariffs imposed...

22.02.2026 90

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Trump Defies Israel on Iran Strategy

Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent rush to Washington was not routine diplomacy. It was a geopolitical stress test. Since President Donald Trump resumed...

15.02.2026 60

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Epstein Files and the Moral Crisis in the US

12.02.2026 40

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

U.S.–Iran Talks: Peace or a Path to War?

10.02.2026 70

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

America in deadlock: the government shutdown

The United States has once again entered a government shutdown and the impasse created by it revealing both the fragility of its political system and...

10.10.2025 100

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

Journey into the heart of American society

The American economy is again showing signs of vitality. With the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates, the hope of lower borrowing costs has...

04.10.2025 60

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

Atlas: the stranger that stirred the solar system

When news first broke that a foreign body, nicknamed Atlas, had drifted into our solar system from the deep unknown, the story ignited imaginations...

03.10.2025 60

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

What makes the Ukraine-Russia war unique

Ukraine entered this war as the presumed underdog—smaller economy, fewer troops, and seemingly overmatched by a nuclear-armed Russia. Early...

19.09.2025 150

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

Invincibility Shattered

15.06.2025 60

The Nation

Qamar Bashir

Pakistan and Turkey: A Brotherhood Forged in Fire

12.06.2025 70

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

China’s angry rebuttal to Trump’s tariff Tsunami

My reading of China has always been of a country that is sagacious, forgiving and accommodating—an entity flowing naturally through history, shaped...

12.06.2025 50

Business Recorder

Qamar Bashir

American Scientists on Sale

31.05.2025 60

Daily Times

Qamar Bashir

Why do India and Israel stand alone?

23.05.2025 70

Pakistan Observer

Qamar Bashir

Why India and Israel Stand Alone?

23.05.2025 90

Daily Times

Qamar Bashir