Pak-US bilateral relationship has always been need-based and transactional. It lacked sincerity and mutual trust. US engaged Pakistan whenever it needed and left as the needful is done. Not only did the US leave Pakistan, as the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan recently said during a talk in Washington DC, it sanctioned Pakistan. Despite […]
Is Iran nuclear deal dead?
The European signatories to the Iran nuclear deal – the UK, France and Germany- and Iran are still working hard to salvage the deal jeopardized by the US President Donald Trump’s unilateral withdrawal. The US re-imposed sanctions on Iran that were removed after 2015 nuclear deal, it also imposed additional crippling sanctions and declared the […]
The Pak-US ‘do more’ diplomatic brawl
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s phone call to Pakistani Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan led to a diplomatic brawl between the US State Department and Pakistan’s Foreign Office as both sides issued contrary accounts of their conversation. The US State Department maintained that “Secretary Pompeo raised the importance of Pakistan taking decisive action against […]
The burden of high hopes associated with Imran Khan
The cricketer-turned politician and the Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan has taken oath as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan. In a country like Pakistan where politics is dominated by a few political clans and the parties, elevation at the helm of a non-traditional politician with no political heritage is indeed a stunning political […]
What did democracy deliver to Pakistan?
At the stroke of midnight on Thursday, the 14th National Assembly of Pakistan stood dissolved as the second successive democratic government completed its five-year term. The outgoing government and the opposition unanimously nominated former Chief Justice of Pakistan Nasirul Mulk as the caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan who took oath as the seventh caretaker on […]
Post-JCPOA US strategy to deal with Iran
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, while speaking at the Heritage Foundation — a Washington DC-based conservative public policy think tank — elaborated the US strategy to deal with Iran after US withdrawal from the JCPOA or the Iran nuclear deal. He revealed the four ‘goals’ of US-Iran strategy: a) ‘counter Iranian destabilising activities […]
Palestinian plight and world’s criminal inaction
Israel’s brutality against unarmed Palestinian protestors continues unabatedly. Israel has used brute force against unarmed Palestinians protesting against Israel’s violent rule as part of “The Great March of Return” — an eight weeks old Palestinian Movement with the stated objective to return back to the Palestinian lands occupied illegally by Israel. More than hundred Palestinians, […]
US airstrikes against Syria — a violation of international law
The US, the UK and France have trampled the international law by attacking a sovereign country, Syria, with more than hundred cruise missiles, apparently, to ‘destroy the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons research, development and production capabilities.’ Why would Assad gas his own people in this point in time when he is enjoying a tremendous triumph […]
The Yemen crisis and hypocrisy of the world
Listen to the rhetoric of the global leaders, the intellectuals, world’s top opinion-makers, the right activists and the masses in general, on humanity and human rights; you get the impression as if we embody the pain of the entire humankind; we support all oppressed and condemn all oppressors irrespective of colour, creed, religion or ethnicity. […]
The volatile Iran-Israel confrontation
In the aftermath of the so-called Islamic State’s (IS) defeat, Israel is feeling encircled, anxious and insecure as Iran’s sphere of influence has tremendously increased not just in Syria but the entire the Middle East. During the last Munich Security Conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a map to convince the audience how Iran […]