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Annual COP-out

EVEN the low expectations that preceded the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29), which concluded in the early hours of Sunday, turned out to have been too high. After the gavel…

A summit to nowhere

AFTER silently watching Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza for the past one year, the leaders of the Arab and Muslim countries have once more met in Riyadh to discuss the escalating conflict.…

Trumped again

DONKEYS are reputed to be stubborn beasts. That possible misinterpretation of their instinct for self-preservation characterises a party that has utilised Equus asinusas a symbol since Andrew Jackson embraced a…

A melting world

NOTHING is more important for Pakistan now than to learn to stand on its own feet. The triumph of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States underscores this urgency.…

My enemy’s enemy

AMERICA has allies while its enemies have proxies; America’s allies have governments that must be supported while its enemies have regimes that must be changed. And right now, in the…

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…

Paper tiger?

I WAS a graduate student during the 2016 presidential elections where I learned a lot about American media’s coverage of elections. We don’t generally make newspaper endorsements in Pakistan but…

Key takeaways

IT is now indisputable that Israel’s mass murder and destruction of Gaza had nothing to do with finishing off Hamas. The real reason was to depopulate Gaza and the West…

Key takeaways

IT is now indisputable that Israel’s mass murder and destruction of Gaza had nothing to do with finishing off Hamas. The real reason was to depopulate Gaza and the West…

The real issues

THERE is nothing complicated about Donald Trump’s win as much of the mainstream media would like the world to believe. If you live in America you know the truth, and…