The Confederation of Business Interests (CBI) delivered a damning report of Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to renationalise water and energy utilities, the Royal Mail and train companies. They argue that the Labour Party’s policy would cost an ‘eye-watering’ £196 billion and...
President Trump assigned the Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, as his envoy to be included in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, as the latest move in Trump’s surprise interest in the matter. The US State Department stated that Grenell will work along...
A veil of tear gas hangs low over the brick-littered street, shrouding protesters huddled behind ruined cars and rudimentary ramparts. In the distance, as a plume of smoke spirals skyward, an almighty din rises: “Moreno out”. In the weeks since...
The way the United States tells it, launching devastating airstrikes on drug-making labs across western Afghanistan is needed to staunch a harmful trade that funds the Taliban’s rebellion against a weak central government. Think again, says the United Nations. A...
The United Nations (UN)’s financial crisis does not surprise anyone given that in early 2019, the organization’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that UN member countries owed almost $2 billion in peacekeeping budget (with the US accounting for a third of...
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...
Pakistan’s descend from a developing country to a security state might have been gradual, but the last few years drastically hastened the pace. From enjoying a largely close relationship with the US and almost brokering a deal with India under...
The month of October 2019 starts stained with blood for Iraq. After decades of regional conflicts, dictatorship, two US invasions, foreign occupations and a sanguine civil war that laboriously ended with the fall of the Islamic State group in the...
Saudi Arabia is beginning to take steps towards easing the situation with Iran following attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities Sept. 14. According to a New York Times report, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has invited leaders from Pakistan...
The next round of talks in Stockholm between North Korea and the US failed on the first day of negotiations after the North Korean side deemed it disappointing. US officials have not yet confirmed a de facto end of the...