WHILE predictions about the fate of the US-Iran negotiations range from excessively optimistic to doomsday scenarios, there does appear to be some intention on both sides to meet again and try to give...
PEACEMAKING becomes increasingly difficult when belligerents continue to resort to threats, bullying and insults. Where the US-Iran peace process is concerned, President Donald Trump’s routinely irr...
WHILE no breakthrough in US-Iran negotiations in Islamabad was expected on Saturday, there is hope: at the time of writing both sides had exchanged texts, and the very fact that the negotiations began...
THE world’s eyes are focused on Islamabad. Pakistan, through its deft diplomacy, has managed to stave off a devastating escalation between the US and Iran, and today, it will host the adversaries to...
MANY questions remain about which way the negotiations between the US and Iran to find a permanent end to the hostilities can go. Amongst the biggest unknowns is Lebanon; on the day the two-week truce...
PAKISTAN’S leadership deserves all the credit it will receive. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir, ably supported by a for...
PAKISTAN’S unemployment crisis is no longer just another demographic concern; it is already restricting growth. So when World Bank president Ajay Banga said that employment creation will remain a �...
TIES between Pakistan and India are perhaps at their lowest point since Partition. Bilateral interaction is close to zero, while Pakistan has strong reasons to believe that its eastern neighbour is pl...
PAKISTAN were coasting towards victory in their Twenty20 World Cup opener but then came the spectre of the all-too-familiar collapse. From 98-2 in their chase of 148 to win against the Netherlands, Sa...
AFTER every terrorist atrocity, we are left with more questions than answers. This is also true in the case of yesterday’s barbaric suicide bombing of an imambargah in Islamabad during Friday prayer...