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The bloodbath in Afghanistan continues unabated Global Village Space | The Afghan defense ministry said on Wednesday that at least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military base in southern Kandahar province. At least 13 soldiers were also wounded in the bloodbath...

West Bengal Is The Bottleneck Of India’s “Act East” Strategy Global Village Space | Andrew Korybko | New Delhi has sought in recent years to rebrand its “Look East” policy towards ASEAN as the muscular and invigorated “Act East” one which aims to most closely connect the subcontinent with the...

Trump’s rejection of a tyrannical system Global Village Space | Jacob G. Hornberger | Notwithstanding President Trump’s many faults, failures, and foibles, let’s give credit where credit is due. Last week a suspected member of Al Qaeda named Ali Charaf Damache was extradited to the United...

Punishing Pakistan in Afghanistan: US Befuddled Policy Global Village Space | While the history of Afghanistan is written in blood; it is also inked in flawed outlook and failed policies. Apart from Afghans’ internal paradoxes (discussed in my last analysis: “Afghanistan: A Graveyard of Empires...

The flaws in the master plan Global Village Space | Afrah Jamal | The master plan chalked out in a piece, ‘Calling Pakistan’s Bluff’ by Whitney Kassel and Philip Reiner in Foreign Affairs (14 July 2017) came laden with glaring flaws. And not just because it decided to present some decidedly...

The better salesman: Pakistan’s military Global Village Space | #Pakistanturns70 Pakistan and India both have been in an arms race for the past many decades. This arms race ranges from the latest weaponry to nuclear capabilities. In this world where economy matters more than military power...

US moves against Iran raise spectre of wider regional conflict Global Village Space | US President Donald J. Trump. in a step that could embolden Saudi Arabia to move ahead with plans to destabilize Iran, has instructed White House aides to give him the arguments for withholding certification...

India’s hybrid warfare in Pakistan Global Village Space | Sun Tzu once said that “supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting”. Hybrid warfare is all about engaging the enemy in all types of warfare from all the fronts simultaneously. The threats are multiple...

Trump’s dictatorial travel ban to North Korea Global Village Space | Jacob G. Hornberger | Last Friday, President Trump issued a decree-law that prohibits Americans from traveling to North Korea. His justification for infringing on one of the most fundamental rights of man — freedom of travel —...

US moves against Iran raise spectre of wider regional conflict Global Village Space | James M. Dorsey | US President Donald J. Trump. in a step that could embolden Saudi Arabia to move ahead with plans to destabilize Iran, has instructed White House aides to give him the arguments for...

US plan to (re)occupy Iraq faces resistance Global Village Space | M K Bhadrakumar | The US’s longstanding project to push for an independent Kurdistan in the oil-rich regions of northern Iraq and Syria in the downstream of the defeat of the ISIS has run into strong headwinds. This could have...

Sixty years of Pak-China friendship Global Village Space | ‘Tie Ge Men’ (Real Iron Brothers); that is how the Pak-China friendship is described. Pakistan was the first non-communist country to recognize the People’s Republic of China and established full diplomatic relations on May 21, 1951...

A coalition without Coalition Support Fund? Global Village Space | The Pentagon has decided to withhold a significant chunk of the allotted $900 million Coalition Support Fund(CSF) citing Pakistan’s inability to take down the Haqqani Network. The US believes that the militant outfit is impeding...

How the western media constructs false narratives? Global Village Space | What bothers me is not that we are unable to find the solution to our problems, what bothers me more is the fact that neoliberals are so utterly unaware of real structural issues that their attempts to sort out tangential...

Baluchistan: A province stripped of its due share Global Village Space | Baluchistan is at the heart of the conflict between the Pakistani government and Baluch nationalists who are demanding independence from Pakistan. This southwestern province is Pakistan’s largest and most natural...

Education: A privilege of the rich Global Village Space | We commit a big fallacy when we assume that our educational accomplishments are our individual achievements. We like to believe that we were born with a certain innate talent which makes us intellectually superior to all the rest. But...

The real owner of Avenfield Apartments: Hussain Nawaz or Maryam Safdar? Global Village Space | Panama Papers were released on 20th of April 2016 by International Consortium of Investigative Journalist (ICIJ). Now, the Panama Case has reached its culmination point. Amidst all the hue and cry...

Imran Khan’s buddies in the league of the lions! Global Village Space The Panama Case has entered its decisive phase and by the looks of things, the Sharif family is on the crutches. In Thursday’s proceedings, the three-member bench showed bewilderment at the documents presented by Salman Akram...

Violations will not be tolerated: Pakistan shows India Global Village Space | News Analysis | The Line of Control(LoC) is far from quiet as both Indian and Pakistani forces are trading fire galore. According to officials, a teenage boy and a man were killed and at least 13 others were injured...

Is slavery in U.S really that different than in North Korea? Global Village Space | Jacob G. Hornberger | Sometimes the mainstream media can be entertaining without intending to. A good example appeared yesterday in an article about slavery in the New York Times. The article, entitled “North...