Qamar Bashir

For nearly half a century following the Second World War, the Soviet Union stood as the United States’ principal strategic adversary. The Cold War divided…

One defining feature of President Xi Jinping’s leadership has been his emphasis on discipline, merit and accountability. Soon after taking office in 2012, he launched…

Seventy-five years ago, on May 21, 1951, Pakistan became one of the earliest countries to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. Few…

There are moments in history when nations rise not through conquest, but through restraint; not through power projection, but through wisdom, patience, and credibility. Today,…

As the Middle East trembles under the roar of fighter jets, the flash of missiles, and the collapse of cities into dust, a parallel story…

There is an old maritime warning that when a ship begins to sink, the first to flee are those who once thrived aboard it, and…

The war now unfolding between Iran on one side and the United States and Israel on the other did not begin merely as a confrontation…

In every war there is the battlefield that the world can see—and another that remains invisible. The Iran war has revealed both. Missiles streak across…

This war may be presented as a fight over nuclear fear, missiles, or regime behavior, but beneath the headlines lies a far larger strategic contest:…

The decision to plunge the United States into a direct confrontation with Iran—taken at the urging and strategic direction of Israel—has triggered a chain of…