US spies elevate China rivalry to war of ideologies
In a move that could harden Washington's posture toward Beijing for years, the US intelligence community has characterized relations with China as a global ideological showdown that will not be…
A new kind of cold war in the offing?
The world is likely to witness a boom in physical infrastructure development activity as the Blue Dot Network (BDN), a multi-stakeholder initiative formed by the United States, Japan and Australia…
The pandemic and beliefs
TWO thousand twenty will be remembered as a year of fear and uncertainty. While the Covid-19 pandemic catapulted human beings into a more globalised and digital lifestyle, it also revealed…
Repeat of a farce in the Middle East
History repeats itself first as a tragedy, then as a farce, argued Marx. This is what has been happening in the Middle East over the past few weeks with the…
Fourth-generation warfare
Is Pakistan in the throes of fourth-generation warfare? In order to answer this question and to understand the nature of that warfare one needs to trace its history. The term…
Ghosts of revolutions past
The history of mankind at various moments has been a history of dissent. Dissent against oppression, exploitation, violence, tyranny, abuse of power, exacted over a peoples by another. Whether both…
Uneasy partners
There appears to be no shortage of books published in America these days that warn of China’s looming challenge to the US or of its approaching ‘domination of the world’.…
Islamists under fire
How time flies! Ramazan is nearly gone and Eid is here before one could really celebrate the blessed month. This has been another Ramazan spent away from home and loved…
