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‘Whom the gods would destroy…’

‘Whom the gods would destroy…’

So, what’s more ridiculous? A properly senile relic in charge of the sole superpower (read Biden), or a deliberately insane megalomaniac bent upon...

07.02.2025 50

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Shahab Jafry

China does more with less

China does more with less

The sudden rise of DeepSeek has been fascinating and instructive on so many levels. Just like that, it forced US-China headlines away from Trump’s...

31.01.2025 20

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Shahab Jafry

What more could Bibi have done?

What more could Bibi have done?

EDITORIAL: Turns out that Donald Trump’s warning, that “all hell would break out in the Middle East” if a deal wasn’t reached by the time he...

24.01.2025 40

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New century, new Great Game?

The fact that Pakistan’s intelligence chief went on a rare visit to Tajikistan in the last days of 2024 means rumours that the Pakistani military...

10.01.2025 100

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The complicated web we weave

A former Afghan journalist I once ran into in China – one who gave up a comfortable life in the Gulf to return to Afghanistan when the Taliban were...

03.01.2025 20

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Cui bono?

It didn’t take long for headlines out of Syria to turn, did it? Locals that set fire to Hafez al Assad’s grave and celebrated the “dawn of freedom”...

20.12.2024 4

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Who won, who lost in Syria?

Who cares about learning a lesson when a really big prize is in sight? So, from the point of view of the US whose dollars, arms and intel no doubt...

13.12.2024 7

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No surprise in the surprise visit

The only surprise in the IMF team’s surprise visit to Pakistan this week was that it took the trouble to jolt the government in person instead of...

14.11.2024 2

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Shahab Jafry

Iran’s daring gambit

Far from making Israel’s northern Galilee region inhabitable again – Netanyahu’s rationale for expanding the war into Lebanon – the...

24.10.2024 4

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The clock ticks to Israel’s reply

The panic attack in the crude oil market must have lit up Sleepy Joe’s phone with frantic calls from the Treasury as well as the Pentagon. The...

10.10.2024 2

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Shahab Jafry

Bibi gets the war he wanted

I said and I said, even sneaked it into editorials where the editor has the last say, that Iran would most definitely retaliate even as experts and...

03.10.2024 1

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We, ‘those’ people

Now I’m told that this ugly executive-judiciary fight threatens to unravel the sacrosanct “balance between institutions” and even violate my...

26.09.2024 1

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‘Action is approaching’?

You know you’re following the right journalists, amid all the noise and international media hijack of the Gaza genocide, when their reading of the...

19.09.2024 1

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The wait-and-wait novelty

So, another week has passed and there’s still no update about the fate of the IMF bailout programme – except that the finance minister has shifted...

05.09.2024 1

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Middle class is in deep recession

What good is a 3.2 percent GDP growth rate next year and inflation dropping below 10 percent in FY25 to someone who’ll be bankrupted by his...

15.08.2024 3

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Gods of finance and the ‘great unwind’

Nobody puts it all together quite like Bloomberg columnist John Authers, who described the recent financial market bloodbath, in the wider...

08.08.2024 3

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When did Noah build the Ark?

It’s very normal, and natural, for milestones like the SLA (Staff-Level Agreement) to be followed by a barrage of ratings agency reports. Foreign...

25.07.2024 1

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‘Nationwide protests’?

It seems the mainstream press is finally waking up to the social implications of the new tax regime. So far it’s happily provided uncontested...

11.07.2024 2

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