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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…

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…