Opinion Editorials

CPEC continues rather augments to be of significant importance for Pakistan. The change of CPEC lead in Islamabad becomes of huge importance amid the economic implications of COVID-19 pandemic and regional geopolitical transition due to Afghanistan. According to the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report, the global economy probably shrank…

ISLAMABAD: Strategic relations between states play a critical role in strengthening economic ties, which have become all the more important for enhancing the standard of living of people and ensuring prosperity of nations. Keeping that in view, Pakistan and Russia are inching closer and their joint North-South Gas Pipeline project…

The once-in-a-century COVID-19 pandemic is still wreaking havoc, posing a great threat to the lives and health of people all over the world, and is a big challenge to global public health. In the face of this common crisis for mankind, the international community needs solidarity and cooperation more than…

SINCE being officially launched by President Xi in April 2015, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has attracted some $25 billion investment into Pakistan’s roads, ports, power plants and fibre optic cables. Given the power imbalance between China and Pakistan and also Beijing’s reputation for an unswerving focus on its own national interests,…

The Indian tales of libel and slander concerning Pakistan have always gotten off on the wrong foot. For India. Continuously holding Pakistan liable over unsubstantiated claims is a telltale sign of how the Indian media and government have been concocting propaganda against Pakistan. This very propaganda seems to be brewing…

Pakistan has a great geographical location and has been helping its neighbours and other friendly countries and contributing towards regional peace. The progress made by Pakistan before the USSR and Afghan war was tremendous and was among the top developing countries of the region in various fields. Our airline, railways,…

“LET China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world”. This remark attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte has been turned into a reality by the Chinese Communist Party that celebrated the 100th anniversary of its foundation this month. Over the past seven decades since taking over power through a revolution, the…

May 21, 1951, is the day when Pakistan and China joined hands for diplomatic and development collaboration. Pakistan was about four years old while China was just less than two. Then, China was satirically termed by the West as an “opium country” with a huge idle population. Meanwhile, Pakistan had…

ISLAMABAD: Gwadar, once a backward and destitute area, is emerging as a hub of connectivity and development. Multiple studies have established that after the completion of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route, Gwadar will be one of the most competitive connectivity hubs in the region and beyond. China, the Middle East,…

War is not an event. It is an economy. Countries like the US have reaped fortunes from it, leaving both destruction and devastation behind. With US troops leaving Afghanistan, the future of the country remains uncertain. It symbolizes that Afghanistan will be abandoned and left alone to an inevitable defeat…