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Imtiaz Gul

Imtiaz Gul

The Express Tribune

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World at the mercy of geopolitics and fake news

We live in very disturbing times. Rights-based approaches have given way to bloc politics. Anything that the West (major NATO members, G-7) does is...

14.04.2024 50

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IHC judges’ letter and implications

The verbal exchange between Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Qazi Faiz Isa and Justice Athar Minnallah during the hearing of the case on the letter...

06.04.2024 20

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Sino-Pak interests and proxy terrorism

The deadly terror strike in Bisham on March 26 that claimed the lives of five Chinese citizens delivered yet another reminder on the grim...

30.03.2024 100

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Back to square one with strained neighbourhood?

Is Pakistan-Afghan relationship back to square one after the aerial strikes on TTP hideouts in Paktika and Khost provinces of Afghanistan early...

23.03.2024 40

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Disregarding the quest for a democratic order

The larger picture emerging post February 8 elections is both explanatory as well as worrying. Should one assume that with the completion of, albeit...

16.03.2024 20

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Ban on girls’ education: Afghan humanitarian aid in peril

Has the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan boxed itself by snubbing all international calls for relenting on fundamental human rights? Looks so because it...

09.03.2024 50

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China’s shared community vs US exceptionalism

On February 20, the US vetoed the Security Council resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza, with the UK abstaining. It was the third consecutive veto...

02.03.2024 30

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Cancer and Pakistan

IAway from the maze of Pakistan’s civil, military elitist politics in Islamabad, I recently spent some three weeks at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital in...

22.02.2024 40

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TTP, TTA and new round of proxy wars

E vents of the year 2023 left little doubt that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) continued its destabilisation campaign in the name of ideological...

14.12.2023 70

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Bilawal and predatory mindset

H owever short-lived and expedient the “ideological squabble” between Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and father Asif Ali Zardari may be, this brought to...

30.11.2023 30

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It’s all about geopolitical interests; no rights or values

A brutal Nakba-II is underway in Gaza. “The human animals” — as described by the Israeli defence minister — face imminent annihilation or...

08.11.2023 60

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The black hole that Balochistan is

As the Muslim world, in particular, wails and condemns yet another round of unprecedented eviction of Palestinians induced by brutal, self-righteous...

23.10.2023 80

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Is Kashmir project done and dusted?

The legal status at the United Nations notwithstanding, is it time for Pakistan to wrap up the Kashmir project? Can it become a China to get for...

09.10.2023 80

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Proxy war from Karakorum to Hindukush and our warning

Two unusual attacks within ten years underscore the intense proxy war that Pakistan has been facing since the birth of the TTP in South Waziristan in...

01.10.2023 60

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International terror war theatre shifting to Pakistan?

Are the goal-posts in counter-terrorism changing? Is the battleground expanding beyond Afghanistan and possibly moving into Pakistan? Some recent...

19.09.2023 100

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A story of four meetings: same pipedreams?

Pakistan is caught in a dangerous tailspin, changing only for the worse, at war within and with hope for a promising future. A case in point is four...

13.09.2023 90

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