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Will NAB references compel “natural allies” to shake hands? Global Village Space | Former President and Co-Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party(PPP) Asif Ali Zardari has iterated he would not come to rescue the dwindling political career of the former premier, Nawaz Sharif. While addressing...

Pakistan looks for realignment as Indo-US alliance strengthens Global Village Space | Ever since Donald Trump became the President of USA, its relationship with India has transformed into a strategic rapport. Indo-US enmity for China seems to have bonded them together. Indian jingoism over...

Altaf Hussain meets US Congressman in London: Is it Agartala 2.0? Global Village Space | US Congressman, Mr. Dana Rohrabacher called on MQM founder and leader, Altaf Hussain in London. Exiled Baloch Leader Khan of Kalat, Suleiman Dawood also took part in the 4-hour long meeting. The three...

No cherry picking of law breakers Global Village Space | Ikram Sehgal | Sharif’s utter contempt of the Supreme Court’s (SC) recent ruling, and by default the rule of law, was exposed blatantly for public viewing during his YATRA along the GT Road. This confirmed that the 1998 PML(N) mob attack...

Pakistan at 70 Global Village Space | Adil Najam | Pakistan turned 70 on August 14, 2017. It has been a tumultuous journey. Exciting. Adventurous. Unpredictable. Sometimes uplifting. Often heartbreaking. And, often, rash and dangerous. But never has there been a dull moment. As we celebrated...

Accountability of the Sharifs Global Village Space | Dr. Farid A. Malik | Despite being in politics/power for over three decades, the Sharifs have been able to dodge accountability. On the other hand, the original party of change, the People’s Party, and its leadership were held accountable by...

Islamabad uneasy as Delhi and Washington mend fences Global Village Space | Ever since Donald Trump became the President of USA, its relationship with India has transformed into a strategic rapport. Indo-US enmity for China seems to have bonded them together. Indian jingoism over Doklam...

A ‘new normal’ in South China Sea Global Village Space | M K Bhadrakumar | India’s ‘Look East’ policy, which shifted to ‘Act East’ under the Modi government circa 2015, may now have to quickly shift again – to, say, ‘Watch East’. It will be on the one hand a judicious shift in tune with the...

Korean Peninsula: Nuclear flash point Global Village Space | The tension between Washington and Pyongyang is heading for a disastrous nuclear crisis. The increasing bellicose rhetoric between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is frightening. Both sides are hell-bent on...

Nuclear brinkmanship high as tensions ramp-up between North Korea and the... Global Village Space | The horrors of the Fat Man and the Little boy are still fresh in memory. This August marked 72 years to the colossal damages inflicted upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At no time since then has the...

Disqualified Nawaz Sharif’s road journey to Lahore-Part 2 Global Village Space | Asif Haroon Raja | IK’s improper sarcasm IK has sarcastically asked Nawaz Sharif that he should tell who signaled him to come on roads. Before NS answers his silly question, IK should first tell the nation who...

Bring the troops home from Korea Global Village Space | Jacob G. Hornberger | There is one good solution to the Korean crisis, one that the mainstream press commentators simply will not confront. It’s not a solution that is likely to be adopted, especially by a blustery and bellicose president...

Road to 1965 war – Part 1 Global Village Space | Kashmir is simmering with a brazen homegrown resistance movement against the Indian state. Since last year, Kashmir is back as the main issue which could potentially start a war between two nuclear-armed rivals in India and Pakistan. The war in...

Isn’t Ayesha Gulalai lying? Global Village Space | Eliya Khurshid | Here you have it, three words…though in a different context than expected. Ever since Imran Khan has opposed Nawaz Sharif, every political action and saying of his has been scrutinized under a jaundiced microscope and...

Abid Sher Ali’s latest folly Global Village Space | The feisty MNA of the PML-N, Abid Sher Ali in his cavalier fashion tweeted in support of Nawaz Sharif who embarked on his excursion to Lahore yesterday. In a tweet composed in Urdu, he compared Nawaz Sharif with Mahrab and portrayed him as a...

Mission GT road Global Village Space | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has already begun his journey from Islamabad to Lahore after being ousted by 5 member bench of Supreme Court in the infamous Panama Case. Yesterday, his cavalcade was able to move from D-Chowk in Islamabad to Punjab House...

Where Doklam traverses regional politics Global Village Space | The regional setting in which the India-China standoff at Doklam is playing out can only be ignored at our risk. Most Indian pundits are training their guns on China’s ‘bullying’ – its growing capacity to dominate the discourse...

Chabahar: A new transit route Global Village Space | Dr. Zafar Jaspal | India, Iran, and Afghanistan have been laboring to establish a new transit route. The new transit route would link Afghanistan and Iran with India through Chabahar Port. The port would facilitate a landlocked Afghanistan...

PM’s Air Blue gets the lion’s share in the Hajj quota Global Village Space | The private air carrier, Air Blue has been given a major share of the flight operations for Hajj. Reportedly, the firm which is owned by the prime minister has been allotted the to and fro travel of 60,000 Hajj...

NRO: What it was and what it became? Global Village Space | National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) stands prominently in the cliché ridden Pakistani society. Unmindful of the grammatical connotations, our political jargon has replaced the word “reconciliation” with NRO. The latest I heard...