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Indian officer who used Kashmiri youth as human shield praised and acquitted Global Village Space | Indian Army’s Court of Inquiry (COI) on Monday acquitted the Indian officer accused of tying a man to his jeep and using him as a human shield while patrolling in India-held Kashmir on April 9...

McMaster creates a new worry for Pakistan Global Village Space | News Analysis | The US National Security Adviser Gen H.R. McMaster has said that the Trump administration is working on a policy which will apply to both Pakistan and Afghanistan, and will be announced soon. The US is mulling...

Free speech struggling for breath Global Village Space | The Pakistan Electronic Media Authority or PEMRA, as it is colloquially referred to, was formed in 2002 with the mandate to “facilitate and promote a free, fair, and independent electronic media”. However, most of its stated powers are...

Is India cutting ‘off its nose to spite its face’ on OBOR? Global Village Space | News Analysis | India has not sent an official delegation to attend the “Belt and Road Forum” in Beijing and instead criticized China’s global initiative, warning of an”unsustainable debt burden” for countries...

Government’s attack on free speech for Army or for self-interest? Global Village Space | On Sunday, in a statement issued by the interior ministry, the media was told that the Interior Minister Chaudhury Nisar has instructed the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing to take...

Will American plan to increase troops in Middle East & Afghanistan be a Self-built graveyard? Global Village Space | Dr. Ron Paul | By the end of this month, Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Advisor HR McMaster will deliver to President Trump their plans for military...

Pakistan’s defective examination system: reforms or demise? Global Village Space | Majid Khan | A University professor wrote an expressive message to his students at the doctorate, master’s, and bachelor’s levels and placed it at the entrance of a university, in South Africa. And the message...

Fraying US-Turkey relations over US support of Syrian Kurds Global Village Space | Sophie Mangal | According to Hurriyet Daily News, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on May 12, 2017, that the U.S. support of the Syrian Kurds harms the strategic relations between the two countries...

Pakistan’s strong economic performance? Questionable Global Village Space | Michael Kugelman| Recent months have seen a proliferation of Western media commentary attesting to Pakistan’s strong economic performance. Factors of economic development Tyler Cowan declared Pakistan’s economy to be...

The Middle-Eastern conflict: Threatening for Pakistan and China’s OBOR Global Village Space | James M. Dorsey | Increasingly caught up in the Middle East’s multiple conflicts, Pakistan is struggling to balance relations with rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran amid concern in Islamabad that the...

Why China wants to ‘speed up’ CPEC’s construction? Global Village Space It would be pertinent to add here that CPEC construction is being done at an unprecedented and fast pace. According to an extensive research carried out by Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at the Renmin University...

India has quoted ICJ non jurisdiction on a number of times against Pakistan. If Pakistan goes to start defending its case - it will open a can of worms. Read our earlier pieces also on ICJ.

If Pakistan goes to the ICJ mala fide interests are at play Global Village Space In response, a set of recommendations has been sent to the Prime Minister’s office on Friday. These recommendations have been kept confidential so that the adversary in the case is not made aware of Pakistan’s...

Why are we so obsessed with politics? First thing that struck me when I moved back home This is the first thing that struck me when I moved back home from Atlanta – How negative everyone is. It is unbelievable. Everyone smiled in Atlanta. EVERYONE. On the streets walking, in the trains, on the...

Maryam Nawaz and her army of trolls Global Village Space Daughter of Nawaz Sharif, referred to as the ‘Princess’ by friends and foes alike, Maryam Nawaz occupies the top seat in the cadre of PML-N’s powerbrokers. Rumored to be next in line for the Prime Minister’s office, she is one of the few...

Why Imran Khan must NOT become the Prime Minister of Pakistan Global Village Space| Shahid Ahsan Baloch | Being a common man, what I can recall from my early adulthood years (in the nineties) was a Pakistan already broken into two; people disenchanted, taking to arms became a way of life for...

Nawaz-Jindal meeting: Friendship, diplomacy, or something else? Global Village Space | The civilian leadership took the military high command in confidence regarding the recent visit of Indian Steel magnate, Sajjan Jindal. The military leadership was to tell that his meeting with Prime Minister...

The intelligence top brass warns the US of increasing “Afghan Trouble” Global Village Space | News Analysis | On Thursday, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was presented with a comprehensive Worldwide Threat Assessment Report. The Director of National Intelligence, Daniel Ray...

A glimpse of the past: Was Pakistan ready to respond to India’s overt nuclearization? Global Village Space | Samson Simon Sharaf | When Narasimha Rao, the Indian National Congress (INC) Prime Minister, called for snap elections in 1996, it was time for Pakistan to brace itself for the events...

JIT summons PM, Captain Safdar’s asset details for scrutiny Global Village Space | The joint investigation team (JIT) charged with investigating the alleged financial wrongdoings of the Prime Minister by the Supreme Court verdict in the Panama Papers case has asked for the asset declarations of...