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Compete and contain

ON the eve of the 20th Chinese Communist Party congress, which later confirmed a historic third term for President Xi Jinping, the US announced its National Security Strategy, reiterating its overwhelming priority is…

Putin’s comeuppance

VLADIMIR Putin was already licking his wounds when he turned up in Samarkand last week for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. Just days earlier, Russian occupying forces in the Kharkiv…

Pakistan’s image

A SINGLE incident, good or bad, doesn’t affect a country’s image. Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s murder didn’t change our view of Japan. It remains that of a country peaceful, prosperous…

Peril and paralysis

IN his opening address to the UN General Assembly, Secretary General António Guterres issued a stark warning about the troubled state of the world. “We are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction”, as…

Masters of war

THE headlines from the Nato summit that concluded a week ago in the Lithuanian capital mainly reflected the prospect of Swedish membership and, more dramatically, the failure to invite Ukraine…

Troubled ties

THE outlook for Pakistan-India relations remains troubled. The prolonged diplomatic imp­asse persists, characterised by new irritants that have added to long-standing disagreements and disputes. When India, host of this year’s…

Pakistan’s image

A SINGLE incident, good or bad, doesn’t affect a country’s image. Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s murder didn’t change our view of Japan. It remains that of a country peaceful, prosperous…

Optimising CPEC

PAKISTAN is finally getting back on the right diplomatic track. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s successful visits to Riyadh and Beijing have created an air of optimism regarding economic revival in the country. Army chief…

New world order

THE Samarkand summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which met recently, provided an excellent opportunity for what is referred to in journalistic jargon as a ‘bilateral’ summit or ‘on…

No appetite left

EVEN death is losing its appetite. It cannot digest any more casualties in Gaza. The United States should take apart the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and use its stones…