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Analysis

India’s Long Infatuation with Russia Must End

SHASHI THAROOR Published 16 September 2022

Seven months after China and Russia announced their "no limits" partnership, the two countries seem closer than ever. In the face of growing Chinese belligerence, this…

Analysis

Floods, The Press and Democracy

Dr Ali M Mir Published 12 September 2022

Can we help avert the suffering of our people? Can we diminish our losses? Or are we to accept this as our fate? The juggernaut of…

Analysis

Why Non-Alignment is Dead and Won’t Return

C. Raja Mohan Published 11 September 2022

As much of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America has refused to line up behind the West amid its growing confrontation with Russia and…

Analysis

World Must Not Wash Its Hands of Afghanistan

Mohammad Sadiq Sohail Published 30 August 2022

Deny recognition of the Taliban until they extend fundamental, universally recognized human rights to all citizens A year after the fall of Kabul and the end…

Analysis

Democracy and Prosperity at 75

Aqdas Afzal Published 20 August 2022

THOUGH it was a few years ago, I still vividly remember an elderly acquaintance telling me about his perilous journey from East Punjab to Multan during…

Analysis

Pakistan Is Drowning in Debt

Lynne O’Donnell Published 10 August 2022

Rising prices, food insecurity, and a growing debt burden make Islamabad’s other challenges all the more pressing. Pakistan is in a political and economic death spiral…

Analysis

Is Pakistan the Next Sri Lanka?

Muhammad Akbar Notezai Published 30 July 2022

Pakistan’s own economic crisis has sparked worried comparisons to the disaster unfolding in nearby Sri Lanka. Hambantota in southern Sri Lanka housed ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa…