In his sixth visit since assuming office less than two years ago, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan was in Riyadh last week to meet with the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to “discuss recent developments in the regional context.”...
The 18-year-old war in Afghanistan has become a thorn in the foot for US civil, political and military establishment. The bitter after taste from the never-ending conflict has forced US negotiators into a corner. The US wants the war to...
US President Donald Trump made his maiden visit to Afghanistan on Thursday under a cloak of secrecy to celebrate thanksgiving with US troops stationed at the Bagram Airfield where he announced that he had reopened talks with Taliban. Less than...
Iran was the first country to recognize Pakistan as a nation, but the relations between the two neighbours have remained muted over the last few decades. In the post-revolution Iran, after hardline Shiite clerics took over the country’s political control,...
Security risks, historically low turnout, voter fraud, lapses in the biometric system and bickering amongst political candidates are some of the reasons why Afghans are beginning to feel alienated from the Presidential Elections held in September. Although more than two...
China’s consistent GDP growth has been a miracle, which has remained well above the 6% mark during the last three decades. But steady declines in 2019 seem to suggest that that miracle is slowly but surely disappearing. The fears have...
Last month on September 28, around three million Afghans voted for their next president amid heavy security and deadly bomb attacks. Only one-third of the total nine million registered voters had turned up to polling booths following threats from the...
In an unprecedented turn of events, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan visited both Tehran and Riyadh to facilitate talks between the two regional arch-rivals. After years of hostility and competition for influence in the region, both Tehran and Riyadh have...
Pakistan under the Prime Minister Imran Khan is becoming increasingly assertive in its foreign policy ambitions. The Khan-led team has made some significant inroads in expanding Pakistan’s influence in the region, from becoming part of the US-led Afghan Peace Process...
A cursory look at the history of Pakistan shows that its Army wields an enormous amount of power. From foreign policy to security strategy, Pakistan’s Army almost always gets its way, at times even superseding the democratically-elected governments. So, last...
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