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India lost its diplomatic battle at the UN and failed to link Pakistan with terrorist activities in Kashmir and Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of an armed group, when the UN body added him to its list of "global terrorists" over his alleged ties to al-Qaeda. This was made possible after China...

Indian General Elections 2019 have entered the fourth phase. After completion of this phase, polls to 373 out of 543 seats of Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s bicameral parliament, would have completed. After completion of all the seven phases, final vote count in the last week of May will...

Both countries have a sovereign right to review economic alliances and their terms in the best interest of their own people, and not the ruling families. HUSSAIN SAQIB Acknowledging its economic development under its revered leader, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has vowed to learn from...

Lt Gen Asad Durrani, a former spymaster, is in the news again, and again for entirely the wrong reasons. Normally spymasters in Pakistan are very well-known but he remained largely unknown during his tenure. His only claim to fame, originally, was his illegal bankrolling of anti-Benazir...

Modi & Co and their local proxies have lost their Balochistan game today when the Baloch people made them eat the humble pie. When RAW staged a fake “Free Balochistan” protest in Geneva some five days ago and hired some non-Baloch immigrants for a few-men rally, probably it had not factored in...

Turkey’s coup of last July was fake, phony and stage-managed in more than one way but it had one major objective in its failure; to make Recep Tayyip Erdogan the most powerful man of Turkey. Erdogan, an Islamist, had autocratic tendencies the day he entered the power corridors of Ankara. When he...

Turkey, the jewel of Muslim world prior to the stage-managed coup of July, 2016, is being pushed into a bottomless pit of anarchy by the Wannabe Sultan of Turkey, President Erdogan. Ever since the failed coup failed, Erdogan is working overtime to consolidate his grip on power, purge the...

The Heart of Asia Conference held in Amritsar on December 4, 2016 was a disaster not only for Pakistan, but for the very concept for which the platform was created nearly half a decade ago. Selection of the very venue of the conference was ominous for the hosts also. Amritsar is the holiest city...

A lot of proverbial water has flown under the bridges since completion of Deep Sea Port of Gwadar. Then it was unimaginable that the port would ever start its operations given the internal and external dynamics. The province of Balochistan, of which Gwadar is a part and which was to provide rail...

Those in the business of political wheeling-dealing have a different kind of Midas Touch; while they make tons of money from whichever institution they lay their hands on, they ultimately discredit, deface, mutilate and destroy it beyond repair and recognition. The first institution that was...

Burhan Muzaffar Wani, a social media warrior of liberation movement of Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir, was martyred in an encounter with occupation army of India on July 8, 2016. Through his social media campaign, he organized and fired up Kashmiri youth who had started feeling betrayed and...

The failed coup of last Friday has not only changed the way Turkey looked a week back, it has shaken the very foundations of the country and shattered all hopes of its well-wishers. Those who had pinned their hopes with the outcome of the coup and had dreamed strengthening of democracy are...

After the fateful Friday night of the coup-makers, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in charge of the affairs of his country again. When the ill-planned and poorly executed coup d'état was underway, the president was fortunate to be able to communicate with his people through FaceTime...

If the madrassa elite of mullahs have issued religious decrees against Edhi, it is not for religious reasons; these decrees are motivated by economic interests of mullahs threatened by philanthropy. Hussain Saqib Religious seminaries, called madrassas, were established in the Sub Continent to...

Someone somewhere is planning to get rid of the baggage called the House of Saud. It also shows that the Holy Sites are not the target, the target is the Custodian. It is not like “swallow your own bitter pill and burn yourself in the fires of terrorism you have been stoking everywhere.” Bomb...

If loss of human lives in Afghanistan and Pakistan counts as of no value, still American taxpayers have a right to ask why nearly a trillion dollars of their hard-earned money went down the drain for attacking a wrong enemy. A new turn in the story of 9/11 now suggests that it was Saudis who...

The timing of this massive exercise is starkly intriguing. Let’s look at the horizon from New Delhi; Pakistan’s political forces are in total disarray, governance structure is collapsing, those who are supposed to put the house in order and safeguard national assets have disappeared from the...

Hussain Saqib Left-leaning media men, intellectuals and politicians were made to believe that India-funded insurgency against the “imperialism” of Punjab was a genuine home-grown revolutionary movement. This enticed the poets like Faiz and Jalib to sing praises of “freedom-fighters”. Unaware of...

Russian jet may have been shot down, not because of air space violation but out of sheer frustration or may be show of power HUSSAIN SAQIB Turkey has shot down a Russian SU-24 jet for violating Turkish airspace on Tuesday. The jet was downed after Turkey’s consistent warnings to the jet to...

It is in the news again; and if the source of all news is an editorial of The New York Times, it is almost official. The US is going to broach the issue of Pakistan’s ever-expanding nuclear arsenal, particularly its tactical nuclear weapons, with Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) during his...