Premier Li Keqiang and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (center), Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov (second left), Tajik Prime Minister Kokhir Rasulzoda (second right),...
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China imprisons businesswoman in rail graft case
"China' crusade to root out corruption continues with the fourth conviction in the Liu controversy involving the railway ministry and misappropriated bidding on government...
The TTP Imbroglio: Staying with Al-Qaeda or Pledging Allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and Sham?
The rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), and its proclamation of Islamic Caliphate on Iraq and Syrian territories controlled by ISIS, has surprised even the jihadi...
Chain of terrorism
A Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) revenge strike was expected since the army launched the Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan on June 15. As the army focused increasingly on...
Death penalty cannot be scrapped without legislation
The Taliban terrorists attacked the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar on December 16, 2014, killing 142, including 132 children. The national tragedy united political actors,...
The Senate report on the CIA and torture: What you need to know
A 500-page American Senate Intelligence Committee report shed some light on the Bush administration's use of torture as a means to interrogate and extract information, and the...
Bringing back Balochistan
Balochistan appears to be caught up in a perennial state of crisis. The lingering Baloch separatist insurgency, organized crime patronized by powerful political elites, the...
Tackling Balochistan’s challenges
Power politics —led by the notorious Baloch ruling elite — again appears to have gripped the restive province of Balochistan. At a time when the Chief Minister’s Policy Reform...
Steel trap
Most of Pakistan’s state-owned corporations are in the red, and profusely bleeding. Even the Privatization Commission and Pakistan Cricket Board are living off the blood and...
Pakistan and the crucible of terror
Within days of the terrorist attacks on the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, Pakistan became an inseparable element in calculations about responding...
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