Syeda Shehrbano Naqvi, an assistant superintendent with Punjab police speaks during an interview with at her office in Lahore on February 27, 2024....
Whenever American policymakers talk about India, they sing praises of its cultural diversity, hailing it as the world’s oldest and largest...
The expansion of BRICS has been hailed as “historic” by the bloc’s most stalwart proponent of enlargement, China. The five-member bloc...
US-China relations have soured over the past few years mostly due to the accusatory tone adopted by successive US presidents. Previously it was...
In the midst of deteriorating relations and bitter friction, a flurry of high-profile American officials’ visits to China has been significant....
At a time when Pakistan is in the grip of civil unrest and the political and economic crisis, its soft power image for which the country struggled...
There is something comic, something mysterious about the Chinese balloon the crossed the US territory. American citizens might have been amused at...
With nearly two years in power, the Biden Administration shows no sign of changing America’s confrontational posture towards China. Even though...
Power in international terms has traditionally been defined in ‘hard’ terms in the context of military and economic strength. In the post-cold...
Extraordinary situations warrant extraordinary actions. Sometimes opening borders with hostile neighbours for trade and humanitarian assistance...
As Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the US on Jan 20, 2021, he took over a cataclysmic course of events – from the devastating surge of...
It is the worst of times, the season of darkness and the winter of despair. It is the ghastly world of disease and death. A time when an unknown...
Tariffs were used as a tool in these trade wars to reduce the deficit, boost local manufacturing and encourage consumers to buy American products by...
The Covid-19 pandemic has upended the fragile health and education system in Pakistan. The brewing crisis has put tremendous pressure on archaic...
When the entire world is in the precarious grip of Covid-19, the two big economic powers US and China have hit the headlines, making an interesting...
It seemed that tempers were cooling down when the US and China agreed to suspend their trade war in early January 2020. Suddenly the world scenario...
Pakistan’s government response towards the stranded Pakistani students in Wuhan, the epicentre of deadly Coronavirus, known as Covid-19, has been...
The US and China are struggling to strike an interim deal in a protracted trade conflict that has begun to weigh down on global markets, hammered...
The US gave Huawei, the privately-owned Chinese telecom giant, a 90-day reprieve on the ban against buying US technology; simultaneously allowing US...
When US President Trump and Chinese President Jinping met in Argentina last November at the G-20 summit, and agreed to a truce in their trade war,...
The task force of Dr Ishrat Hussain has recently proposed to wrap up the central superior services and replace it with specialized civil service...
The US-China trade war may be defusing but it is nowhere near an end. US President Donald Trump lifted a deadline of March 1 for China to agree to...
A climate of hate is emerging in India after the Pulwama attack. The targets are varied and apparently unconnected. One of the things that has...
On Dec 1 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump agreed to a 90-day trade truce at the G-20 Summit in Argentina in which...
What if trade between India and Pakistan was valued at $37 billion instead of $2 billion? This is not a guess but a prediction made in the World...
The Governor House Punjab in Lahore has been in the spotlight since the PTI government assumed power. Soon after it was opened to the public, which...
Since the end of the cold war, the US has relied more on aggressive economic statecraft to advance its foreign policy goals. Under the Trump...
As the much-trumpeted first 100 days of the PTI’s government are drawing to a close, the politicisation of the bureaucracy still remains a highly...
The two recent judicial interventions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan are significant with regard to the questions of urban development and their...
Zainab’s tragic murder has jolted the conscience of every citizen of the country. The incident has caused shock and concern owing to the...
If there was any ‘award’ gained in 2017 – in addition to the benefit reaped in the case of the Hudaibiya Paper Mills – it would undoubtedly...
Not long ago, a civil servant was considered in “possession of good fortune” – much like Mr Bingley in Pride and Prejudice –...
Unregulated border management appears to be one of the emerging challenges threatening relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. In an environment...
A footage released by the Sunday Mirror divulged shocking details of a Pakistan Customs official for seeking a 10 British pound bribe for not...
The uneasy relations between Pakistan India often remind me of the poem ‘Mending Walls’ by Robert Frost in which the poet describes going out...
