Tag: Analysis

Think tanks play a vital role in any country’s decision and policy making by providing expert opinion and analysis. The ...

Everybody in Islamabad has a story to tell these days. All of them are marked by biases, selective reading of ...

Sheikh Hasina is suddenly confronted with a moral dilemma for which her authoritarian political system is unprepared

The brutal lynching and burning of a body in Sialkot is a continuation of violence in the name of religion ...

Putting the authoritarian Bangladesh and its leader under the microscope that other authoritarian leaders have been under would help us ...

The story to prepare this study plan goes like this: after having worked in the development sector – designing, managing, ...

The entry of electables in the PPP may be a good omen for the party, writes Adnan Aamir

Someone among the Taliban military planners likes his Sun Tzu and has learnt from it, writes Ejaz Haider

Biden and his advisors vastly underestimated the Taliban’s preparedness, writes William Milam

Afghanistan continues to be a trainwreck in slow motion. While the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces fold before the ...

Taliban gains are being cheered by some sections in Pakistan. The United States and its allies have lost in Afghanistan ...

The situation in Afghanistan continues to evolve since I last wrote about Pakistan’s counterterrorism options two weeks ago. Friend and ...

Enhanced and timely knowledge about one’s adversary tends to contribute to crisis stability, writes Dr Salma Shaheen

There is no industry-wide accepted measure of user safety on digital platforms, writes Mahum Kidwai

Electronic voting is a process, not a product, writes Atif Majeed

A number of questions rise from the two recent incidents of uranium trafficking in India. Dr Naeem Salik

Last week, this is what I wrote regarding the evolving situation in Afghanistan: “In theory, the only way to head ...

Arshid Hussain Peer and Muneeb Yousuf

Afghanistan is slowly but surely headed towards an implosion. And that’s going to be an explosive problem for the entire ...

At one point during his shuttle diplomacy following the 1973 Ramadan War, Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State remarked, ...

Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Saudi Arabia at the invitation of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. The three-day ...

In an interview last Sunday to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the issue of ...

Since the assumption of office by Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States, Pakistan has tried to ...

The government has been bitterly criticised by the political opposition and civil society opponents for handling or mishandling, if you ...

Adnan Aamir describes the chaos near the Iranian border after the govt sealed it

A discussion over the established hotline between Directors-General Military Operations of  Pakistan and India has led to a joint statement, ...