The Muslim world’s answer to Nato?
September 17 will be remembered as a watershed moment in Pakistan–Saudi Arabia relations, a day that introduced a new chapter of binding strategic cooperation. With the signing of the Saudi–Pakistan…
Nato gambit
Donald Trump is embracing new military goals for NATO that may lead to an additional trillion dollars in military spending and the greater militarization of Europe. In pressuring the members…
The anatomy of terrorism
Pakistan these days is the target of a virtual onslaught of terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Hardly a day passes without a terrorist attack of some sort taking its…
Options for Nato
In the aftermath of World War II, the US and its allies created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) in 1949 to curtail Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe. Given the…
Senators split over regulating private medical college fees
As the Senate Standing Committee on Health continued deliberating “exorbitant tuition fees” of private medical and dental colleges, some legislators, including the committee’s chairman, ministry officials and Pakistan Medical and…
Senator promises legislation to cap medical colleges’ fee
As the Senate Standing Committee on Health called for overhauling the fee structure of medical colleges, Senator Irfan Siddiqui on Wednesday vowed to introduce legislation to determine fee structures and…
Nato summit
PAKISTAN’S Foreign Office last week offered to mediate between Russia and Ukraine in an effort to end the war. The offer has some credibility on the back of the Ukrainian foreign minister’s…
Anatomy of a cult
“AND so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,/ And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,/And thereby hangs a tale.” That, in the words of the…
75 years of Nato
AT the Nato Summit in Washington this month, marking 75 years of the alliance’s existence, the Russia-Ukraine war dominated discussions. The summit declaration condemned Russia for its “brutal war of…
Elephant in room at NATO: would Trump blow it up?
Western leaders are celebrating 75 years of NATO with an elephant in the room — will Donald Trump, who could again be the US president within months, blow the alliance…
