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JUST weeks after its formation, the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement faces its first challenge: the escalating conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi militia. The rebel group has struck Saud...
THE plot thickens. What the ubiquitous interior minister said makes at least one thing clear: restructuring the existing administrative framework is inevitable. It was apparent that he was not voicing...
REJECTED by voters in his own constituency, lawyer Iftikhar Gillani has been chosen as the new prime minister of Azad Jammu & Kashmir. A local PML-N leader, he was elected on a reserved seat for t...
WATCHING the long-awaited finale of Pakistan Idol was a refreshing break from the country’s ongoing political turmoil and escalating regional tensions. It was a fascinating contest between half a do...
THERE is much talk of the ‘winds of change’, but where are they blowing from? Well-briefed sections of the media and well-connected cabinet ministers tell us that some form of administrative restr...
THE triangular defence pact signed last week by Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is the most consequential geopolitical development reshaping the strategic landscape of the region and beyond. It has...
IT is not so much what he said as who said it. We all know that the existing political system has failed to deliver, but that admission coming from the all-powerful interior minister raises many quest...
INDIA’S Gen Z uprising may not have swept away the government as it did in Bangladesh and Nepal, but it has certainly challenged an increasingly repressive system. Led by students and disgruntled yo...
THE rising death toll from the reported clashes between security forces and outlawed terrorist groups tells less than half the story of Balochistan. The strategically important province has been suffe...
THE tentative ceasefire has effectively collapsed even before the US and Iran could begin technical-level talks. Renewed American strikes and Iranian retaliation now threaten the interim deal barely a...