Sikandar Noorani

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov made an interestingly frank and direct statement about US alarming manipulations in regional matters. As reported in leading Indian daily Hindustan Times, while addressing a global conference in New Delhi top Russian diplomat said ‘West has a policy to engage India in anti-China games’. No further elaboration required on this […]

It is no exaggeration that recent investigative report by EU Disinfo Lab provided shocking disclosures about Indian influence operations against rival countries. Fifteen years’ long operation aimed primarily to damage the interests of Pakistan with a lesser focus on China as well. Report titled “Indian Chronicles: Deep Dive into A 15 Year Operation Targeting The […]

Despite official ban on public gatherings amid second wave of corona, PDM’ leadership thought it more appropriate to go as per plan about rallies in Peshawar and Multan . No attention was paid even to the threat alert of possibleterroristattacks.Was it courageous on part of the opposition to call thousands of supporters under extremely hazardous […]

The upsurge of violence in Afghanistan isendangering the future of complex peace process with every passing day. Despite many rounds of talks among the stake holders, no agreement could even be made on agenda of Doha dialogue. Afghan security forces though fail largely in fighting the violence but intermittently claim apprehensions of high profile targets. […]

It is very much Indo-Pak style of politics to blame the rivals for promoting enemy country’s narratives. This vicious tendency was always there but a recent surge needs much serious head on shoulders. Ex speaker national assembly Ayaz Sadiq has taken a significant lead among those PDM stalwarts who spoke irresponsibly at important forums whatwas […]

After gathering reasonably large crowd in Gujranwala and Karachi at the formal beginning of protest movement, the eleven party alliance PDM is now making tall claims about early departure of the government. Traditionally, in our political culture the size of any public gathering like the recent ones and baseless lofty claimsremain at the center of […]

As usual American president Donald Trump provided a lot of eye catching stuff in recent couple of days. Besides frequently striking at rival candidate in presidential campaign Joe Biden, he tweeted about return of troops from Afghanistan by this Christmas. Timing of this casual Trump style tweet on a very important matter means a lot. […]

As a matter of routine, opposition parties have expressed deep concerns about the future and loudly criticized the performance of the federal government in multi-party conference. Interestingly, no words were uttered about the Sindh provincial government, which recently proved its questionable talent during rains in Karachi. While generating the optics of a greater alliance, opposition […]