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Author: David Brewster, ANU China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative is carving out new pathways across the Eurasian continent, signifying Beijing’s ambitions to remake the world around it.  This project, if implemented, will fundamentally change China’s role and relationships in South Asia, perhaps in some ways that are not intended. In the Indian Ocean region, OBOR has two aspects. …

The sole super power under George W. Bush Junior duly assisted by his team of neocons declared the 21st century as the American century and for the realization of this ambition had designed a new world order (NWO). The NWO envisaged neo-colonizing the Middle East, capturing the world resources under the garb of global war on terror, and turning the …

By Asghar Soomro President-elect Donald Trump has announced he will leave his business empire to avoid perceived conflicts of interest but expecting the similar thing from our politicians would be a naive idea. On the contrary, our leaders announce jobs and contracts for party loyalists as soon as they take charge of the public office. So, in this context it …

‘Humans could drink the groundwater almost dry in parts of India, southern Europe and the US’ WASHINGTON: Groundwater resources could be depleted in the next few decades in dry areas of the world where people use lots of water for drinking and irrigating crops, researchers said on Thursday. The research was presented at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical …

By Babar Sattar There is a sinister narrative that is being aggressively marketed by prophets of doom these days. Its bottom line is that the heads of state institutions are puppets lacking free will, human agency and integrity and are incapable of making decisions honestly and objectively. A new industry is booming within our mainstream media backed by social media. …

By Amir Hussain Culture, like other key concepts of sociology, is a contested notion and therefore cannot be reduced to a homogenous set of practices. This piece will not discuss the sociological approaches of what the notion of culture entails. Instead, it is about how the popular notion of culture can be used as a force of social cohesion and …

By C.J. Polychroniou / Truthout The United States is rapidly declining on numerous fronts — collapsing infrastructure, a huge gap between haves and have-nots, stagnant wages, high infant mortality rates, the highest incarceration rate in the world — and it continues to be the only country in the advanced world without a universal health care system. Thus, questions about the …

By Murtaza Shibli Bahukutumbi Raman, a former spy master at the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) – India’s premier Indian spy agency created with a special focus on Pakistan –  in his book, ‘The Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane’ (2007), gloats over the creation of Bangladesh and calls it the finest hour in the history of RAW. Since then …

By Hussain H Zaidi The separation of East Pakistan on December 16, 1971 was the culmination of a long process spreading over two decades. It cannot be put down to the ambition or stubbornness of a single general, politician or political party. The federation of Pakistan, which came into being in 1947 had two remarkable features which contributed a lot …

BY: Sultan M Hali On the 15th Anniversary of China’s entry into WTO November 11, 2001, marked a red letter day in the history of China’s trade – nay, the world’s trade, commerce and economy, when Shi Guangsheng, the then Chinese Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, signed the protocol on China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in …