Trump’s first week orders and Pakistan
On Donald Trump’s inauguration day Western media was left struggling for headlines. His supporters focused on his anti-immigration executive orders, and his pledge to direct members of his cabinet “to…
Right to peaceful defence
The US has once again imposed sanctions on Pakistan for its pursuit of long-range missile capabilities – a move that many observers see as yet another instance of Washington’s selective,…
Nuclear exceptionalism
The US has imposed sanctions on four entities allegedly involved in nuclear proliferation. These include the National Development Complex (NDC) and three Karachi-based companies: Affiliates International, Akhtar and Sons Private…
Iran treads carefully, backing Hezbollah while avoiding war
As violence between Israel and Hezbollah escalates, Iran is walking a tightrope by supporting Hezbollah without being dragged into a full-blown conflict and playing into its enemy’s hands. With a…
Iran’s refusal to back down
THE deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Gen Ali Fadavi, has said his country’s “response to the Zionist aggression is definite”, in remarks reported by the New York…
Bibi gets the war he wanted
I said and I said, even sneaked it into editorials where the editor has the last say, that Iran would most definitely retaliate even as experts and analysts loaded the…
Closer to midnight
So far, we have lived in an era of arms control and disarmament efforts made during the cold war – though we have taken this for granted. The international security…
Bibi gets the war he wanted
I said and I said, even sneaked it into editorials where the editor has the last say, that Iran would most definitely retaliate even as experts and analysts loaded the…
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy heads to US with ‘victory plan’ at perilous moment
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy travels to the United States to set out a “victory plan” to his closest ally this week, in an urgent attempt to influence White House policy on…
Averting a catastrophe
THE Middle East is precariously poised on the brink of a full-blown regional war that has been widely feared for months. Israel’s assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander…
