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The coerced dictated definitions: Who are terrorists and freedom fighters? Global Village Space | Muhammad Feyyaz | Qatar is in the eye of a storm, and sectarian blocks have deepened as never before. Indeed, geopolitically, the whole edifice of real politicking is homed on to ensure the...

Growing regional cooperation: Will the USA be driven out of South Asia? Global Village Space | Anam Sheikh | The twenty-first-century international relations are going to be multi-polar, where not one but many actors will be shaping the world order. The present wave of regionalization to...

Qatar: Another reason for the rift between NATO allies? Global Village Space | Mehmet Ersoy | On Wednesday, June 7, the Turkish media wrote that Parliament voted to deploy 5,000 troops in the Turkish military base in Qatar – Ankara’s only base in the Middle East. Doha is believed to be...

US intrusion in Syria: Killing government forces in the name of “self-defense” Global Village Space | Daniel McAdams | The United States has carried out strikes against the Syrian forces. Two such strikes were carried out last week as the Syrian government-allied forces had been attempting to...

Diplomatic breakdown in the Gulf: Is Trump the only one to be blamed? Global Village Space | Nasir Azeem | The diplomatic and political rifts between the Arab nations is nothing new. The Gulf States have been fighting over a variety of issues for many years and it seems they would continue...

Gulf crisis: Is Saudi Arabia the only bad guy here? Global Village Space | James M. Dorsey | A Saudi and UAE-led campaign to force Qatar to halt its support for Islamists and militants is little else than a struggle to establish a Saudi-dominated regional order in the Middle East and North...

The 4th generation war: Who is running away with the show? Global Village Space | Saleem Akhtar Malik | After President Trump’s recent tour of Saudi Arabia and Israel, the Middle East is ablaze with accusations and counter-accusations. The geopolitical alignments which had been evolving in...

ISIS being pushed back in Syria: Is the end of the war near? Global Village Space | Sophie Mangal | Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continues the offensive from eastern Homs to the city of Deir ez-Zor. According to the military correspondents of Inside Syria Media Center, some progress has been made in...

2018 elections drawing close: Is Pakistan ready to accept a democratic government? Global Village Space | Dr. Farid A. Malik | October 27, 1958, is etched in my memory when as a five-year-old I stood on the Mall Road holding my father’s hand to receive Khan Qayyum Khan – the Muslim League...

Ashraf Ghani’s outburst: How should Pakistan handle the situation? Global Village Space | Imtiaz Gul | Political temperatures spiked to unprecedented levels with a May 31 terrorist attack in Kabul that has left about 150 people dead. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani gave out this figure in his...

Political elites of Pakistan: Promoting or subverting democracy? Global Village Space | M. Q. Yaaser | Paragraph 124 of Supreme Court’s decision on the Panama Case stated the following: “Some provisions of article 62 of the constitution certainly contain some strong moral overtones but those...

Added conflicts and proxies: Redefining the Middle Eastern alliances Global Village Space | Samson Simon Sharif | For over the past hundred years, West Asia has been the theater of conflicts and proxies. Most countries in the conflict did so due to history, dynasties, and religion that attract...

PML-N’s ‘interesting’ rule: Have the 2018 elections already been lost? Global Village Space | Shaukat Qadir | In the Chinese language, if you say, “May you live in interesting times”; it’s a curse. Pakistan seems to have spent its life in ‘interesting times’. The uncertainty has been more or...

British and Middle Eastern Monarchy: Acceptable vs the unacceptable Global Village Space | Jovaria Naseem | Monarchy is one of the oldest forms of government. The word “Monarch” comes from the Greek word monárkhēs which means absolute ruler or one single ruler. Currently, there are 27...

The Middle East conundrum: What is the safe passage for Pakistan? Global Village Space | Ghulam Mustafa | Mired in its Afghan Policy quagmire, reeling from Trump led Saudi Arabian stunning uppercut and Panama JIT, Pakistan appears to have been left way behind in the past tense of rapidly...

Identifying the common enemy: Is Trump missing a chance to mend ties with Iran? Global Village Space | News Analysis | Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei has said that the attack on the Iranian Parliament and shrine of the revolutionary Ayatullah Khomeini carried out by the Islamic State will...

Defying global pressure: North Korea fires new land-to-ship missiles Global Village Space | Ju-min Park and Soyoung Kim | Seoul – North Korea fired what appeared to be several land-to-ship missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a day after the South postponed...

Saudi-UAE-Qatar crisis: Will the US’ mediation bear fruit? Global Village Space | News Analysis | The noise of Saudi-led Qatar boycott is reverberating in the region and beyond as the need for mediation and protection is being felt. The country under the hammer, Qatar, has shown defiance and...

Ashraf Ghani’s blame game continues: What are Pakistan’s options? Global Village Space | Imtiaz Gul | Ashraf Ghani’s charged Pakistan-focused speech before the Kabul Process Summit on June 6 in the presence of a Pakistani delegation left quite a few foreign delegates wondering as to what the...

Tehran attacks: Is the US-Saudi-Israel team getting ahead of Iran? Global Village Space | M. K. Bhadrakumar | Even by American standards, the White House statement on the terrorist attacks in Tehran on Wednesday will stand out as a new threshold in the US’ doublespeak on terrorism. Tehran has...