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Of sit-ins and rallies: the politics on the roads Global Village Space | Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is all in readiness for his excursion to Lahore on the historic Grand Trunk Road. The bomb blast in Lahore on Monday compelled N League stalwarts in Shahbaz Sharif and Chaudhary Nisar to...

Nawaz Sharif’s GT Road Yatra and his confrontational politics Global Village Space | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will begin a journey from Islamabad to Lahore today after being ousted by 5 member bench of Supreme Court in the infamous Panama Case. This yatra indicates that Mr. Sharif has...

Figuring out the Kennedy assassination part 2 Global Village Space | Jacob G. Hornberger | The official story of the Kennedy assassination is that he was killed by a former U.S. Marine, lone-nut, communist assassin named Lee Harvey Oswald. The big problem, however, is that the official story...

Modi revisits Iran ties Global Village Space | M K Bhadrakumar | The decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to depute the minister of transport Nitin Gadkari to represent India at the inaugural ceremony of Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani in his second term is a most appropriate, timely and...

Dissecting Kabul’s “do more” demand. Global Village Space | Diwan Rayan | The demand by the Afghan government that Pakistan should go after the Afghan Taliban, might seem simple on the face of it, but actually, it is mired in complexity. Pakistan is facing the heat all around for the last four...

Remember the hero of Lakshmipur: Major Tufail! Global Village Space | On the eve of independence, Jinnah had declared that the future relations between India and Pakistan would be like those between the U.S. and Canada. While replying to a foreign correspondent, he talked about a local Monroe...

Nawaz Sharif: A dictator in disguise Global Village Space | Ahad Tariq | The world witnessed a smooth democratic transition in Pakistan’s Prime Minister Office when Shahid Khaqan Abbasi of Pakistan Muslim League (N) was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan in an oath taking ceremony...

New Afghan Policy – Implications for Pakistan Global Village Space | Dr. Muhammad Ali Ehsan | Pakistan is eagerly awaiting the announcement of the Trump administration’s new Afghan policy – likely to be made public shortly. It is being feared that it may not be Pakistan friendly. Will the...

Sinners judging Sinners for Sinning differently Global Village Space | Nawal Amjad | Decades and may be centuries have been spent in trying to draw a line of distinction or differentiation between Law and Morality, but in Pakistan – as in most cases: The case’s the opposite. When the ‘Dynasty...

Figuring out the Kennedy assassination part 1 Global Village Space | Jacob G. Hornberger | The Washington Post and Politico recently published two articles entitled “President Trump, Give Us the Full Story on the JFK Assassination” and “How the CIA Came to Doubt the Official Story of JFK’s...

The Kurdish Kaleidoscope Global Village Space| Andrew Korybko | The Kurdish “nation” is as diverse as the colors of a kaleidoscope and stands little chance at ever coming together into a unified political entity, but that hasn’t stopped some external powers from trying to bring this about in...

PPP will play the “elder brother, younger brother” game ! Global Village Space | M. Q. Yaaser | There are three motives which push voters to vote; Hope, Hate, and Fear. Same were the factors which caused Donald J. Trump’s win on November 9th, 2016. The hate created against Hillary was...

Israel and the gimmickry of geopolitics Global Village Space | Joseph Davis | There are signs that the war in Syria may be winding down. The Trump administration has “shifted its policies in Syria away from arming and aiding Salafist/jihadist terrorist fighters and is now allying exclusively...

Russia-China-India triangle – then and now Global Village Space | M K Bhadrakumar | The South China Morning Post jogged our memory by retrieving from the archives of the Wilson Centre in Washington the transcript of a conversation between the then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and the Chinese...

Gulf media wars produce losers, no winners Global Village Space | James M. Dorsey | Feuding Gulf states that have pumped millions of dollars into public diplomacy appear to have done better in damaging the reputations of their detractors than in polishing their own tarnished images. Qatar...

Nawaz Sharif and the Supreme Court’s decision Global Village Space | In an informal conversation with journalists on Saturday, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that though he has a lot to say about the circumstances surrounding his ouster, he wishes to remain silent for now. He was...

The Afghan quagmire Global Village Space | The Afghan Taliban on Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) patrol north of Kabul that the United States military said killed one service person. US military spokesman, said one person died...

GVS exclusive! Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman meeting with Imran Khan? Global Village Space | Folks, what you’re about to read may sound surreal but I assure you, this is a true story. Esteemed political commentator and TV anchor, Dr. Moeed Pirzada, and yours truly – while on an excursion to Nathia...

GVS exclusive interview with Imran Khan; his vision and his priorities. GVS had the good fortune of getting an opportunity to interview Imran Khan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf. Election season has for all intents and purposes kicked off and we decided that it would be wise to ask the PTI...

93,000 Pakistani soldiers did not surrender in 1971 because….? Global Village Space | Dr. Junaid Ahmad | December 16, 1971, was an ominous day for Pakistan because the Pakistani army’s scattered divisions sandwiched between an internal insurgency supported by Indian war machine and Indian army...