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Come in, Kim. Join the club Global Village Space | M K Bhadrakumar | According to US officials, North Korea’s ICBMs are capable of hitting any part of the United States. These North Koreans are an incredible lot, isn’t it? With all the sanctions in the world tying them down, they still managed...

Pulling the plug on Afghanistan Global Village Space | Ikram Sehgal | Recent reports coming out of Washington suggest that the proposal by US National Security Adviser (NSA) Mr. MacMaster for a moderate rise in the number of US troops or their private security company substitutes has been...

Playing with Fire: Trump’s Iran policy risks cloning North Korea Global Village Space | James M. Dorsey | As US President Donald J. Trump gropes with a set of bad options for responding to North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear and ballistic missiles program, he risks creating a similar...

Indian propaganda trying to save Nawaz’s skin Global Village Space | Dr. Shahbaz Shabbir Gill | Indian media’s recent public expression of affection for Nawaz Sharif is quite uncharacteristic of its typical hostile treatment towards Pakistani government. The Supreme Court’s verdict against...

Of Gulalai and Articles 62/63: PML-N’s new strategy to disqualify... Global Village Space | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Ayesha Gulalai announced her exit from the party on Tuesday after she hurled some scathing allegations against party chairman Imran Khan and other top party members...

Prime Minister Azad Kashmir offends millions of Kashmiris Global Village Space | Why did PM AJK go out of the way to support Nawaz? It is not a secret that the party in power in Islamabad influences elections in AJK and hand picks the Prime Minister. When PPP was in power, it won elections in...

Imran celebrates and looks to surge ahead Global Village Space | Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan warned former President Asif Zardari, the nominated interim prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and premier in-waiting Shahbaz Sharif of the hammer of accountability. Khan...

The interim prime minister; no stranger to corruption charges Global Village Space | Minister of Petroleum and Natural resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been appointed interim prime minister while Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the chosen successor to his ousted brother’s office, is...

End of Charter of Democracy? Global Village Space | Dr. Muhammad Ali Ehsan | Arriving on the heels of 70th independence day of this country, the judgment by the Supreme Court on the “Panama gate scandal” has hopefully changed and turned the ways politics will now be conducted in this country...

Fear of third intifada brings Israel and Arab together! Global Village Space | James M. Dorsey | A web of formal and informal Israeli-Arab relations and common fears of renewed popular uprisings that could threaten regimes and benefit Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood facilitated...

Countering Sharif’s apologists Global Village Space | Farah Adeed | The Supreme Court of Pakistan has finally disqualified Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the third time elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif landed in hot waters in 2015 when Panama Papers exposed many ‘leaders...

Nawaz’s disqualification: Will Pakistan descend into chaos? Global Village Space | M K Bhadrakumar | The Pakistani scenario, following the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has three important dimensions. One, will Pakistan descend into violence and chaos? The answer is a resounding...

Fear of third intifada brings Israel and Arab together! Global Village Space | James M. Dorsey | A web of formal and informal Israeli-Arab relations and common fears of renewed popular uprisings that could threaten regimes and benefit Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood facilitated...

India’s China war circa 2017? Global Village Space | Ikram Sehgal | A month or so ago, Indian troops trespassed and forcibly halted China extending a border road through Donglang plateau (called Doklam by India) at a junction between China, Sikkim (annexed by India) and Bhutan. Sourabh Gupta...

Stop the Fear Mongering – Nawaz Sharif’s Disqualification Is Great... Global Village Space | Andrew Korybko | The voices alleging that the Prime Minister’s disqualification would lead to pandemonium in Pakistan were wrong – to the contrary, his removal has politically stabilized the South...

Panama verdict: Victory in a two-dimensional war Global Village Space| Jawad Falak | The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from his post after an investigative panel alleged his family’s wealth was far above their earnings in a scathing corruption...

Killing and dying for minerals Global Village Space Jacob G. Hornberger | “President Trump, searching for a reason to keep the United States in Afghanistan after 16 years of war, has latched on to a prospect that tantalized previous administrations”-New York Times Americans might soon have a...

It is check and mate for Israel in Golan Heights Global Village Space | M K Bhadrakumar | Israel has suffered a big setback in the Syrian conflict with the deployment of Russian military police in the safe zone being established in southwestern Syria near the Golan Heights. The Russian Defence...

Will tomorrow be the D-Day in Operation Panama? Global Village Space| The Panama leaks case is about to reach its much-awaited climax. The entire nation is now impatiently looking towards the honorable Supreme Court for accountability of the Sharif family which has been accused of money...

Not in my name protests: evolution in the anti-Hindutva struggle Global Village Space | Jawad Falak | On June 22, with Rs 1,500 in his pocket, Junaid Khan, the fifth of Saira and Jalaluddin’s seven children, left home in Khandawali village of Haryana’s Ballabhgarh district with elder brother...