Geneva Resilient Pakistan Conference: a thumping success
The US dollar 10bn aid pledges made by the participants of Geneva moot for Pakistan to help the latter in the post-floods situation is a welcome augury. However, one thing must be kept in mind that these are only pledges and the real difference would...
Judicial snags: much more needs to be done
There is no denying that our legal system is marred by undue delays and snags. Cases run for years and years with no sight of decisions. Sometime the decisions are delivered when the accused are no more. However, off late our legal gurus have also st...
Gaza must not be forgotten amid Israel’s latest controversies
In the tumult of the recent Israeli general election and the farcical process of forming a new government, the focus was chiefly on how it would affect Israeli democracy and relations with the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while t...
Iraq’s moment in the football sun
For the first time since 1979, Iraq is hosting a major global event - the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup. To say Iraq has been through devastation in recent years would be an understatement. The Middle Eastern nation, proudly crowned as the cradle of civilisa...
Ukraine and Saudi Arabia: Broadening horizons of cooperation
One more year of Ukrainian-Saudi relations has come to an end. The past year’s high-speed, turbulent pace was dictated by a complex set of internal and external factors affecting the agendas of each country, which neither had ever experienced b...
Farha and the story of the Palestinian collaborator
On December 1, 2022, Netflix released the film Farha, Darin Sallam’s first full-length feature and Jordan’s entry into the Oscars. Like many diaspora Palestinians and our allies, I rushed to watch it, and I loved it. The film is based on...
‘He led by example, and left a living legacy’
Born in 1920, orphaned at 2, brought up by a remarkable young widowed mother who kept her late husband’s business running, mentored by his older brother (Abdul Hameed), young Mohammed Said, after his initial schooling, studied and trained in Un...
Good show by Green Shirts against Kiwis
Cricket is the most popular sport in Pakistan and it gains added significance when there is home series at home ground. The latest back-to-back home cricket series i.e. against England and New Zealand are cases in point. The matches of both these ser...
Sino-Pak ties and CPEC project
There is no denying the game-changer mega China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was victim of undue snags and delays during the previous PTI regime. However, it is welcome to see that the current coalition government is pay due attention to t...
Syria’s stakeholders divided over Turkiye rapprochement
Throughout the past decade, Turkish foreign policy has gone through crucial predicaments. The crisis at its doorstep, in Syria, has been the main reason for this. The Syrian crisis has had several implications for Turkiye on different levels: Worseni...
