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Kashmiri-Americans enter the fight!

Hassan Aslam Shad - a legal expert on International warfare - discusses how Pakistan has given a legal master stroke and how it can take this further.

Dr Moeed Pirzada explains to Najma Minhas where recent tensions between US and China are leading them after closing each others consulates. Will US achieve its target objectives. By calling this a Cold War, is the US lulling itself into believing it will win over China by equating the latter to...

Dr Moeed explains how the Hagia Mosque was converted into a museum by Kemal Attaturk from a position of strength and not weakness. Why Western countries took a different stance on Hagia Sophia versus the Babri Mosque in India. What does this mean for current Turkey and Greece relations.

Dr Moeed Pirzada and Najma Minhas sit down with President Azad Jammu & Kashmir Sardar Masood Khan, to discuss the implications of the India-China tensions and the impact on the global order. Masood Khan is fluent in Chinese and is considered a China expert. He has also been Pakistan's Ambassador...

Should March 23 Parade be happening this year amidst coronavirus scare? Seldom has a sophisticated plane like F-16 crashed in rehearsal exercises for Pakistan Day Parade killing a senior PAF pilot. In most crashes pilots get an opportunity to exit but in this incidence pilot, Wing Commander...

US Secretary of State warns North Korea that military action is an ‘option’ Global Village Space Military action by the United States against nuclear-armed North Korea is an “option on the table” if the threat from the rogue regime escalates, Washington’s top diplomat Rex Tillerson said Friday...

According to international news agencies, and reports by Pakistani media, two suspected militants were killed on Thursday, Mar 2, by a U.S Drone strike near Pak-Afghan border. The pilot-less aircraft killed the two men while riding a motorbike in Kurram agency. It is the first drone strike...

“Pizza.com” a fast food restaurant in Multan is now serving food with the services of a robot. It is the first eatery in Pakistan which is set to replace human waiters with robot services. In a country like Pakistan where the purchasing power of people is declining with each passing year and...

Ikram Sehgal | A bomb blast in May 2002 targeting the French naval technicians in a bus outside the Sheraton and Pearl Continental Hotels in Karachi where New Zealand’s cricket team was staying caused the Kiwis to terminate their tour. Five years later Benazir Bhutto’s tragic assassination led...

Dr James M. Dorsey | Common wisdom has it that ultimately failed or troubled popular revolts in 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa have sparked bloody civil wars and violent extremism, and given autocracy a new lease on life. Indeed, there is no denying that a brutal civil war in Syria...

With the killing of Burhan Wani, Hizbul militant, by Indian forces last year, protest broke out against this action. CRPF personnel used pellet guns for crowd dispersion which resulted in more than 69 deaths, with approximately 600 people being blinded. Global pressure made India move away from...

The U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had presented a preliminary version of the Pentagon’s new plan to rapidly defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria during a meeting of the White House Principals Committee, a Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said оn February, 28. The plan involves...

Gen. Ghulam Mustafa | 13 February 2017 appears to have faded from nation’s memory as indeed all other such days which took away so many precious lives. Instead, we are now riveted on PSL Finals in Lahore as if its success will be the victory we have been promised all along. In a way, yes, it...

There is increasing concern in Pakistan over the foreign loans situation and the direction this is taking the country. To offset the declining foreign currency reserves of Pakistan and to pay back foreign debt obligations has meant the country has taken out more loans to pay off existing ones...

Nasim Zehra | Obviously, only fools can call for a weakening of democracy. After all military interruptions in Pakistan that have disrupted democratic governments have significantly contributed to the weakening of institutions, to making politicians insecure and reactive, to distorting genuine...

Jacob Hornberger| Leftists (or liberals or progressives, if you prefer) are lamenting the plight of illegal immigrants who are being arrested and deported by President Trump’s ICE gendarmes. Playing the standard defender of the “poor, needy, and disadvantaged,” they are criticizing Trump for...