Opinion & Analysis

Recently, a Senate committee was informed that 17,321 Pakistani nationals are currently incarcerated in foreign prisons, with the majority in the Middle East and 85 in Afghanistan. Community welfare attachés...

While plastics are now an integral part of everyday life, the pollution caused by them has become a major health and environmental hazard. In 2022, the UN Environment Assembly finally...

India's External Affairs Minister - EAM hereon - Excellency Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in another recent declaration stated that India has three redlines: that she will protect her farmers — read, a trade...

On August 19, 2003, a brutal suicide truck bomb ripped through the UN's Canal Hotel in Baghdad. Inside, diplomats and aid workers, including the respected Sérgio Vieira de Mello, were...

I feel insane asking this question on the 24th anniversary of the one day that changed the world. But I feel even more insane not asking it after some mind...

True to its dynamics, Afghanistan keeps Afghan watchers and Afghanologists busy. If the recent events in the country and the adjoining Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan — collectively referred as Afghankhwa — are any...

Pakistan-China relations are often discussed with pride and optimism, hailed as a model of strategic partnership, especially under the banner of CPEC. Yet a crucial question remains largely unasked: has...

The US-Russia summit is without doubt a historic moment. President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States met in Alaska on August 15. The widely...

Rain: a curse or a blessing? As a nature lover, I believe it is a blessing. Unfortunately, the country I belong to, beautiful with its diverse weather and natural aesthetics,...

For many years, India successfully leveraged US tensions with China and Russia to its advantage, playing both ends against the middle. On one side, New Delhi spotlighted its potential as...