VIEW POINT: GCC states and their Iran problem
Last week, US President Barack Obama hosted an "Arab Summit' at the Camp David to provide his country's traditional Middle Eastern allies' security assurances. Out of the six Gulf Co-operation…
Still… great people to fly with
The mundane pedagogy of free market fundamentalism, summarised in the domestically revered slogan, "It is not the governments business to be in business", appears to be reaching its zenith in…
LNG: ‘The whole truth’
Much has been recently written and said about Pakistan's procurement of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to meet its energy needs. Despite our best efforts to disseminate the facts through the…
French courtship of Gulf monarchies is risky: experts
Hungry for defence deals, France has cosied up to the Gulf monarchies, winning several billion-euro contracts in the process, but its strategy of backing one side in the region's Sunni-Shia…
French fighter jets find takers in a worried world
After failing for years to win a single order for the Dassault-built Rafale fighter jet, France has scored a string of multi-billion-euro wins in recent weeks and is on a…
Chinese investment
There is widespread support for the $46 billion proposed Chinese investment to Pakistan and the credit for the 52 memoranda of understanding signed between the two governments during the recent…
The changed Afghan policy
It is rare for Pakistan to publicly denounce the Afghan Taliban movement, but Islamabad did just that on April 30 when it condemned the Taliban’s so-called ‘spring offensive’ launched recently…
A great opportunity
Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit last week was another milestone in Pak-China relations that remain unaffected by regime changes in either country. This trend manifests the immensely friendly feelings people…
The Afghan thaw
It may not be the first but it is certainly the most significant face-to face contact between the Afghan Taliban and representatives of the Kabul government. Although both sides have…
Lesser creations?
A Notice on the door of a travel agency office in Doha, Qatar said: “Women are not allowed entry.” Seeing this, I was reminded of the bygone times when, in…
