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INCREASED diplomatic engagement between the US and China has helped to bring down the temperature in their fraught relationship. But it has not...
https://arab.news/j4k5v With all of Pakistan’s human development indicators having declined in recent years, a timely new report asks a pivotal...
THE best of times and arguably the worst of times. This is how an important new book sees what advanced artificial intelligence and biotechnology can...
THE spectre of a wider conflict still looms in the Middle East after Israel’s ostensibly ‘limited’ attack on Iran. The escalatory cycle of...
https://arab.news/5w6kr China’s Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong recently wrote an op-ed in a Pakistani newspaper in which he reiterated his...
THE global debate over governance continues — what constitutes good governance and how it helps to determine the fate and fortunes of nations. It is...
Recent years have been tumultuous in Pakistan’s politics. Even by the standards of the country’s tortuous history and its record of instability,...
SIX months on, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows no sign of abating. With over 33,000 Palestinians killed and more than 75,000 injured by...
https://arab.news/yj9jp The most consequential task of the Shehbaz Sharif government is extricating Pakistan’s ailing economy from the critical...
PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN relations have been on a downward trajectory. They plunged to a new low earlier this month when Pakistan carried out air strikes...
CHINA’S rise as a global power has evoked different reactions across the world. Much of the Global South has welcomed this and seen it as an...
https://arab.news/4ka7z Pakistan is in the midst of a growing human development crisis with most indicators of literacy, education, health, poverty...
WITH a new government in place in Islamabad, what is the outlook for Pakistan-India relations? Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s congratulatory...
WHAT will US foreign policy look like under Donald Trump 2.0? Governments and people across the world have already started assessing this as the...
https://arab.news/zp5np In its very first sessions, Pakistan’s newly elected National Assembly was the scene of protests and rowdyism by...
THE new government has assumed power in an environment marked by political turmoil, polarisation and controversy over the election. In his second...
WHEN PML-N and PPP leaders forged a power-sharing deal last week and announced they had the numbers to form a government, conspicuous by its absence...
https://arab.news/5wyyq The February 8 elections in Pakistan delivered a divided mandate with no party able to secure a majority. This has made...
EXPECTATIONS that the election would put Pakistan on the road to political stability have clearly not been met. The election produced a fractured...
PAKISTAN voted on Feb 8 in an election full of surprises and upsets. This was a pivotal poll in the backdrop of the political tensions and uncertainty...
https://arab.news/rdnwk With Pakistan’s twelfth general election only a day away, there are two views about what might happen in the poll. The...
PAKISTAN goes to the polls this week in an exceedingly fraught atmosphere marked by uncertainty about the future. In the country’s 12th general...
IS the general election this time any different from previous ones? Or is it more of the same? There are several significant similarities with past...
https://arab.news/b7mn8 The global debate about the disruptive impact of new technology has intensified especially with advances in artificial...
FOREIGN policy challenges for the next government have become even more complex after Pakistan and Iran traded airstrikes last week. Relations between...
WHILE engagement continues between Pakistani officials and Taliban authorities the core issue at the heart of tensions between the two countries is...
https://arab.news/vjhph With general elections looming, the contest seems to be as much in the courts as in the electoral arena. Imran Khan’s...
ALL eyes are on the general elections, now just a month away. But what will happen after the election will be far more consequential to the...
ELECTION activity has swung into high gear in the country with the filing of nomination papers by candidates and mobilisation of supporters by party...
https://arab.news/nrk3r The visit by Pakistan’s army chief General Asim Munir to the US marked an important effort at re-engagement by the two...
2023 was another tumultuous year in Pakistan. It saw much uncertainty in the country — about the economy and how its volatile politics will pan out....
THE UN General Assembly convened again on Dec 12 when Israel’s war on Gaza had already claimed 18,000 Palestinian lives and caused a humanitarian...
https://arab.news/4xts9 Of all the non-fiction books I enjoyed reading in 2023 and learnt much from, four stand out. Cold Peace: Avoiding the New...
SPECULATION persists over whether general elections might be postponed. This prompted the Election Commission of Pakistan to issue a...
LOOKING ahead to what can be expected in 2024, the world will continue to be in an unsettled state with geopolitical tensions escalating and driving...
https://arab.news/v2kmn With general elections in Pakistan announced for February 8, 2024 electioneering by political parties has got off to a...
OVERSHADOWED by Israel’s war on Gaza, the meeting earlier this month between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping didn’t receive as much media...
THE world watched in horror when Israeli forces attacked Al Shifa hospital in Gaza in another atrocity committed by a barbaric occupying power. Backed...
https://arab.news/858gp With over 11,000 Palestinians killed by Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, there is still no end in sight to the hostilities...
WITH general elections scheduled for Feb 8, the coming weeks will see political parties swing into electioneering mode to rally support for the...
HOW has the world responded to Israel’s continuing war on Gaza and the humanitarian catastrophe there? Clearly, the UN Security Council failed in...
https://arab.news/yynds With Israel’s killing spree continuing and its ground operations expanding in Gaza, a catastrophic humanitarian crisis has...
THE one thing demonstrated by Nawaz Sharif’s return from self-exile is that political leaders can never be written off in Pakistan’s...
ISRAEL’S war on Gaza continues despite rising international concern that the violence can escalate into a wider conflict in the Middle East....
https://arab.news/vy9md Once again, the United Nation’s premier body responsible for international peace and security failed in its duty. As...
THE eruption of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and war in Gaza was a crisis waiting to happen. The conditions for this tragic turn of events were...
PAKISTAN’S checkered political history holds many lessons that need to be learnt if the country is to escape from its troubled past. Some have been...
https://arab.news/9mv7k Even though the Election Commission of Pakistan has yet to announce a date for general elections, it has taken an important...
THE interim government seems to be getting itself mired in unnecessary political controversy at a time when it should be reassuring people of its...
EARLIER this month, the world marked the International Day of Democracy, celebrated every year on Sept 15. But this hardly masked the reality of...