Opinion

Pakistanis watching the fortnightly OGRA announcement might reasonably ask when will the petrol prices come down to the prewar levels. The answer lies in arithmetic rather than in end of war declarati...

More than two millennia ago, long before the invention of the internet, smartphones, or social media, the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu warned that the greatest weapon in war was not force alone...

For decades, the confrontation in the Middle East was not characterized by open conflicts between nation-states, but instead by a continual, vague struggle carried out in the shadows. This method of c...

A single figure buried in SIPRI’s latest Yearbook warrants close attention: twelve nuclear warheads. For the first time since India’s nuclear tests, SIPRI has pointed out operational deployment of twe...

On 11th November 1918, in Compiègne Forest, the railway carriage belonging to the Supreme Allied Commander, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, served as the site where the German representatives signed the humil...

After the Second World War, the global powers took a daring step when they gathered at the Veterans Memorial Hall at San Francisco and came up with a liberal international order founded on cooperation...

The unrest that is currently being experienced in Iran, especially in its capital, may turn out to be one of the most dramatic in the modern history of this country, as the reports suggest that a grea...

When the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran in early 2026, the reverberations extended far beyond the immediate military theatre. The conflict has been the most significant conventional...

For much of the twentieth century and the early quarter of the twenty-first century, scholars of International Relations have understood global power distribution through the concept of polarity. In s...