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The Ummah: The fresh princess of Bel Arabia and Muhammad Bin Salman Global Village Space | Haider Mehdi | King Salman, by elevating his son, the 31 years Mohammed Bin Salman, or MBS, as Crown Prince, may actually have signed MBS’s death warrant, leading to the downfall of the Al Saud regime...

Breaking inertia on Kashmir Global Village Space | Saleem Akhtar Malik | The 1965 war Kashmir is simmering with a brazen homegrown resistance movement against the Indian state. Since last year, Kashmir is back as the main issue which could potentially start a war between two nuclear-armed...

Economic ramifications of Gulf crisis Global Village Space | Myrah Qadeer Khan | Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt released coordinated statements, announcing breaking of diplomatic ties with the tiny-yet-wealthy peninsular nation of Qatar. They cut air, sea and land...

Ideological foundations and organizational structure of Islamic State Global Village Space | Nauman Sadiq | The fight against the much-dreaded ISIS is on with varying degrees of resolving and success.It becomes important to trace the ideological antecedents of this group. Since the beginning...

Prince Salman: An outlier in the conservative state Global Village Space | M. K. Bhadrakumar | The royal decree of June 21 by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman appointing his son Mohammed bin Salman as the Crown Prince and next in line to the throne is a watershed event in Middle East politics. Such a...

Jadhav makes clemency appeal to the COAS: What will be his fate? Global Village Space | News Analysis | Kulbushan Jadhav, the convicted Indian spy has appealed to COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa to overturn the death sentence awarded to him by a military court in April this year. “Commander...

Rising tension between Russia and NATO Global Village Space | News Analysis | A NATO F-16 fighter jet buzzed a plane carrying Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as it flew over the Baltic Sea, but was seen off by a Russian Sukhoi-27 military jet on Wednesday. The Baltic Sea has become an...

Can Pak-US ties be reconfigured amid hardened positions? Global Village Space | News Analysis | According to US officials, President Donald Trump’s administration appears ready to harden its approach toward Pakistan to crack down on Pakistan-based militants launching attacks in neighboring...

Ascendance of Prince Salman: Saudi Arabia’s rise or demise? Global Village Space | James M. Dorsey | Saudi King Salman’s appointment of his son, Mohammed bin Salman, as a crown prince at the expense of his nephew, Mohammed bin Nayef, could prove to be a mixed blessing for a kingdom in...

CPEC and Pakistan’s concerns: New policy for Chinese citizens Global Village Space | In the wake of the abduction and murder of two Chinese nationals in Pakistan, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar during a meeting on Wednesday made a policy decision to review the conditions and requirements for...

The three-way tug of war in Syria: Who are the important players? Global Village Space | Nauman Sadiq | In order to simplify the Syrian theater of proxy wars, it can be divided into three separate and distinct zones: the Syrian government-controlled areas, the regions administered by the...

Pakistan: Can only the Army provide freedom? Global Village Space | Dr. Farid A. Malik | On April 24, 1915, the combined forces of Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand attacked Gallipoli to topple the Caliphate in Istanbul. They were in for a surprise. General Mustafa Kamal Pasha and...

The key to peace in Afghanistan: Bringing all the regional players on the same page Global Village Space | Imtiaz Gul | The Trump administration plans to beef up its nearly 9000 troops with another 4,000 with the stated objective of training and assisting the Afghan security forces on the way...

“Anti-industry” policies of the government: Textile Association to protest Global Village Space | The textile industry is all set to stage countrywide demonstrations along with a special protest in front of National Assembly in Islamabad on July 7. The protests are said to be in reaction to...

The differing futures of Pakistan and China. Does Beijing get a bigger pie? Global Village Space | Saeed Afridi | The story of Pakistan, since its very incidental inception, has been one of talking about the imminent realization of its potential and latent, sometime erroneously termed dormant...

Mohammed bin Salman becomes the new Crown Prince: Expected divisions in the family? Global Village Space | Stephen Kalin and William Maclean | Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was elevated to Crown Prince on Wednesday, replacing his cousin in a sudden announcement that...

Gulf crisis: A new tale or a recap of the Southeast Asian story? Global Village Space | James M. Dorsey | Two competing visions of ensuring regime survival are battling it out in the Gulf. To Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the 2011 Arab popular revolts that toppled autocratic...

Washington’s good terrorists, bad Terrorists policy: Selling Satans as saviors Global Village Space | Nauman Sadiq | Karl Marx famously said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. The only difference between the Afghan jihad back in the ‘80s that spawned Islamic...

30 years after marriage, Indian women say their husbands’ names for the first time Global Village Space | In many parts of India, a woman will go to great lengths to avoid saying her husband’s name and even that of elder men in the family. Instead, she will use a pronoun or ‘father of my...

Help them if you can: Let us save the hapless patients Global Village Space | Dr. Anum Rahman | I am a doctor and every day I treat people suffering from life-threatening to common diseases. Occasionally, I fail to save someone from dying while many times, I am able to see my patients...