Turkey’s hour of reckoning in Syria
ahmed sabirDuring a Pentagon briefing last weekend, Secretary of Defence James Mattis dropped a bombshell by innocuously slipping in that the US military intends to set up a string of observation…
The world must finally give us Rohingya a say in our fate
By Mohammed Sheikh Anwar By now, the world is well aware of the horrors experienced by Myanmar's Rohingya minority over the past two years. Starting on Aug. 25, 2017, the…
Players and their Interests
By Siakat Bhattchariyya Application of Game Theory to predict the nature of Xi-Trump upcoming meeting outcome which is set to occur by the sidelines of the G-20 meeting. If Wall…
Texas is about to create OPEC’s worst nightmare
By Javier Blas An infestation of dots, thousands of them, represent oil wells in the Permian basin of West Texas and a slice of New Mexico. In less than a…
Scientists say mysterious “Oumuamua” object could be an alien spacecraft
Harvard researchers raise the possibility that it's a probe sent by extraterrestrials By David Freeman Maybe it's an alien spacecraft. Scientists have been puzzling over Oumuamua ever since the mysterious…
World’s first quantum ‘compass’
That uses atoms instead of satellites to navigate could make sat-nav obsolete The accelerometer overcomes many of the issues of traditional GPS systems, such as blockages from tall buildings or…
A united front against extremism
By Talat Masood This was not the first time that the common citizen of Pakistan felt helpless and hostage to a group of religious parties that rejects the verdict of…
What is India hiding in Kashmir?
By : Syed Ali Geelani “Human rights violations in Kashmir perpetrated by Indian army with legal immunity dwarf in scale the violations that provoked international humanitarian action in other international…
India – Pakistan relations Nuclear doctrine, militarization and security dynamics of the Indian Ocean region
By : Anum A. Khan According to Cold War notion of strategic stability, deterrence will prevail if both countries have second strike capability due to the concept of Mutually Assured…
Surgical strike – the Indian fiction
By M Haroon Aslam “I've got a plan so cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel” this Blackadder quote is so relevant to the…