Hard Iran-US nuclear talks By Zahid Hussain
THE ongoing indirect nuclear talks between America and Iran are inching forward with the two sides agreeing to meet for …
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Unhinged America By Dr Niaz Murtaza
IT is scary to see a mad elephant run amok, ravaging tiny villages until it is tamed. It is more …
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United States and the new world trade disorder By Shahid Javed Burki
Historians agree that it was the leadership of the United States that pulled the world out of the destruction that …
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The fallout By Maleeha Lodhi
PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every country upended the global trading order and plunged markets into …
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Tariffs, Tanks and a Turning Tide By Jawad Saleem
Tariffs, oil prices, interest rates, and shifting global dynamics have become the principal components of a complex economic jigsaw, yet …
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Beyond globalisation By Haroon Sharif
FINALLY, it is happening through the US president’s executive orders — closure of USAID, the start of a tariff war to balance the …
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The folly of slashing aid to bolster security By Syed Mohammad Ali
The withering of American aid due to the dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration has understandably become the subject …
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The new Trump order By Riaz Riazuddin
WITH one stroke of his pen, a day after April Fool’s Day, Trump left the entire world bewildered at his …
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Geopolitics of dams By Khurram Abbas
RECENTLY China has announced construction of the world’s largest dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. India has criticised …
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Nether regions By F.S. Aijazuddin
HISTORY has been in love with Lahore since forever. It was not its only admirer. The Mughals remained enamoured of …
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Tariff crossfire By Khurram Husain
BY all accounts a world is ending and we don’t know what is going to replace it. For Pakistan this …
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Navigating trade barriers By Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
IN today’s complex global trade environment, Pakistan finds itself navigating between two competing demands: the Trump administration’s protectionist tariffs and …
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Implications of a global disorder By Talat Masood
The world at present is an anarchic condition, primarily driven by President Trump’s deliberate policies of shaking up well-established global …
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Hard or competent state? By Maleeha Lodhi
THERE are several aspects to the debate that has been going on in the media about a ‘hard state’. Why, …
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A hard state? By Shahab Usto
THE recent in-camera civil-military huddle at Parliament House once again unfolded three conceptual cleavages that have rent apart the polity. One, the …
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From hard to harder By Sakib Sherani
‘There is no use of running on the wrong road’ — Turkish proverb ELITE misrule in Pakistan has scarred the …
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Losing the plot By Khurram Husain
YOU can tell when a government in Pakistan has lost the plot when they turn to the bureaucrats for ideas …
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First line of defence By Maleeha Lodhi
IF foreign policy is the country’s first line of defence it is disconcerting how successive governments have left the foreign …
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