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As the incumbent governments, federal and provincial, reach the end of — unprecedented in the political history of Pakistan — their five-year tenure, the usual […]

John Kerry’s first overseas trip as US secretary of state has underlined a possible shift in Washington’s stand on one key regional issue: Syria. Kerry […]

For the first time in several years, some sparks of hope flew in negotiations between the P5+1 — the five permanent members of the UN […]

With electioneering in full swing, people’s attention is focused on the political transition that lies ahead in Pakistan. But the fate of the economy is […]

Travelling through Europe and the Middle East last week John Kerry may well have wondered if giving up his senate seat to become Secretary of […]

US President Barack Obama’s policy towards Iran has undergone subtle changes in his second term causing consternation in President Benjamin Netanyahu’s hawkish circle. Officially US […]

I have sometimes wondered whether I should retrain as a psychologist. I would love to get inside the mind of one man: the man who […]

With a divided US Senate approving Chuck Hagel as the secretary of defence, and Secretary of State John Kerry embarking on his first overseas visit […]

In 1970, Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik observed in Will the Soviet Union Survive until 1984? that “all totalitarian regimes grow old without realising it”. Amalrik […]