Has ISIS been defeated?In line with his America First policy, President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw US forces from Syria. To justify his decision, he has announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the majo...
Legitimizing bullyingMy 11-years-old son was so shocked a few days ago while watching a dialogue between politicians that he changed the channel to protect his younger sister from bad exposure. As a mother, I was immensel...
The challenges for the new finance ministerThe global debt has reached $164 trillion. The amount is nearly 225 per cent of the global GDP. There is a real danger, therefore, of another global financial crisis like that of 2008. Some experts be...
The ‘prosperity’ we are familiar withThe history of Pakistan is replete with spectacular visits to the country by heads of various states and governments. Successive governments have been claiming that beneficial agreements have been rea...
What Syria went throughFollowing the so-called Arab Spring uprisings, Syria faced a civil war in which thousands of people were massacred. Besides Iran, Russia, and the Hezbollah from Lebanon, which were already considered...
The CPEC trick or treatThe world can hardly forget the colonial era. Entire nations and regions were subjugated with the force of arms and lost their sovereignty to mightier armies and navies. Their resources then ceased to...