On the world stage of realpolitik, it was a defining year as US troops huddled to go back home in all uncertainty The year 2021 was a collage of hope and despair. Yet, it was a year of resilience. People across the

Public anxiety spiked as oil prices in Pakistan broke records multiple times over the last few weeks. The prices stand at the highest in the history of the country due to the devaluation of rupees and the high prices of crude oil

Islamabad nurses no regional designs. Its clout with China and Afghanistan should be taken as an asset in realpolitik. Mark Twain, the greatest American humorist, said, “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” Though he lived and died before World

The post-withdrawal era has posed opportunities and challenges at home and abroad alike. The revulsion-cum-revolution, though peaceful in essence, on Pakistan’s western frontiers and the Taliban set-up has pitched Pakistan in a leadership role in the region and beyond. For the first

Two decades of brinkmanship and a fallacious geopolitical strategy in Afghanistan have taught the United States one simple lesson; never police beyond its frontiers. But it would have been better if Washington had realised this bitter truth after its fiascos in Iraq,