America owes Russia a big apology for the embarrassing case of bumbling CIA spy Ryan Fogel caught red-handed in Moscow trying to recruit a Russian agent. Shame on the US. Whatever happened to ...
The vicious Syrian civil war has put the world’s two biggest nuclear powers on a collision course over a small Levantine nation of no strategic interest to Washington. This cannot be allowed to ...
While the US beats the war drums over North Korea and Iran’s long-ranged nuclear armed missiles - which they don’t even possess - Washington remains curiously silent about the arrival of ...
Korea, wrote the famed German expert on geopolitics, Baron Haushofer, a century ago, was one of the world’s five most strategic areas. So it remains today, as China, Russia, Japan and the US ...
The intensifying war of words between North Korea, the US and ally South Korea could ignite a major conflict. The likely trigger would be a small clash at sea, in the air, or along the Demilitarised ...
The United States and the two feuding Koreas could blunder into a real war unless both Pyongyang and Washington cease provoking one another.Last week, two nuclear-capable US B-2 stealth bombers flew ...
“Realising they will never be a world power, the Cypriots have decided to settle for being a world nuisance.”– George Mikes, Hungarian writerCyprus is a big pain in the neck for one ...
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War. In October 2002, I wrote a cover-story about Iraq for the first issue of American Conservative magazine entitled “The March to ...
Secretary of Defence is the second most important and the toughest job in the US government after President. Since the 9/11 attacks, USA’s foreign policy has become highly militarised. ...
Are we about to be vaporised by North Korea’s nuclear weapons? Given all the hysteria this week over its third underground nuclear test, one would certainly think so. In reality, we are not ...
On January 30, a Chinese Jiangwei II-class frigate entered the disputed waters around the Senkaku Islands, a cluster of uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea claimed by China as the Diaoyu Islands. ...
The Mideast is stumbling into one of its most dangerous crises in decades. I’m just back from the region - and as an old Mideast hand, I am very worried.This region is always tense, but right ...
The bloody attack on an Algerian gas installation and France’s invasion of Mali are the result of troubles that have been brewing for years - we simply have not been paying attention.The ...
Confused over the surging violence in Mali and now Algeria? Trying to find Mali on the map? War, as the great Roman historian Tacitus wrote, teaches geography. This week’s new lesson is West ...
Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the frightful Algerian Independence War, French President François Hollande did the right thing last Thursday by recognising the ...
The wicked 19th century American cynic, Ambrose Bierce, defined diplomacy in his “Devil’s Dictionary” as “the patriotic art of lying for one’s country.”True ...
The US has lost one war and is fast losing a second, yet what really upsets Americans seems to be a scandal; beautiful female general groupies; US brass in Tampa, Florida, living like potentates; the ...
It’s an ill wind that blows no good,” goes an old sailor’s saying. Meaning: some profit even from ill fortune.Hurricane Sandy (a silly name for a monster storm that killed at least ...
The black, sinister-looking Soviet SS-4 intermediate-ranged missile on display at Havana’s La Cabana fortress looks old, roughly finished, and rather primitive. But this missile, and 41 others ...
Welcome Mali, our newest crisis! Open your maps. Mali is a huge, arid nation extending from the Sahara Desert and Algeria’s border in the north to the steamy south along the Niger River. Most ...
Chinese and Japanese vessels prowl menacingly in the sea around the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, as Beijing and Tokyo exchange threats. A few wrong moves could spark a clash between the two ...
The British used to call it the “cost of Empire:” occasional attacks on Her Majesty’s troops and legations by enraged, sword and spear-wielding natives. Imperial troops would ...
Elephants are one of nature’s supremely beautiful and most majestic creations. Africa’s elephants are rapidly being slaughtered to extinction because of Asia’s lust for ivory. We ...
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Conference in Tehran brought nostalgic memories of the Cold War and world-bestriding leaders like Nasser, Castro, Nkrumah, and Sukarno. However, most of them were ...
Watching the storm-battered Republican convention at Tampa, Florida, does not reinforce faith in democracy or the Grand Old Party (GOP). American political conventions traditionally mix backroom ...
I was visiting Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States when the phone on his desk rang. “The hot line,” he said. “Sorry, I have to take this call.” As he listened, ...
The embattled regime of Bashar Al-Assad just managed to shoot itself in both feet, provide ammunition to Syria’s enemies, and give them yet another excuse to intervene in its raging civil war. ...
Jamaica’s Port Royal used to be called the wickedest city on earth. During the 1600s, it was a favourite lair for pirates, buccaneers like Henry Morgan, cutthroats, and assorted ...
The ghost of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is rising from his grave to haunt Israel and the Americans. A devastating investigation by Qatar’s Al-Jazeera has found mounting evidence that ...
The US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, says that the major portion of US naval power will shift to the Pacific by 2020, as part of the Pentagon’s new “pivot to Asia” strategy. ...
Thursday, 23 May, 2013
May 18, 2013PML-N warns PM Khoso crossing limits
May 19, 2013, 7:37 pmAltaf Hussain slams PTI leader's murder
May 20, 2013, 12:14 pmPTI will hold protest demo in Karachi on Monday: Imran
May 17, 2013Recount strips Ch Nisar of PP-7 victory
May 17, 2013Hizbul commander warns Nawaz Sharif over India
May 19, 2013Mush should ‘fly out’ of Pakistan
