Raja Shahzeb Khan

WHEN Operation Epic Fury began, widespread concerns the US was stumbling into another quagmire were unfounded. Instead of occupying an entire nation like Iraq and…

JUST days after a family of tourists were swept away by flood waters in a scenic resort in Swat Valley of Khyber province, Pakistan experienced…

THE ceasefire between Israel and Iran, tenuous as it is, is holding. So does that mean the state of war between the two nations is…

  THE nuclear menace is rearing its head once again. First, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gave rise to fears of both countries’ nuclear reactors being…

PAHALGAM is on course to be India’s 9-11, or rather, 9-11 for the Kashmir region. Because we must remember that the 26/11 Mumbai attack was…

ISRAEL’S war has expanded on all fronts. For a whole year, a determined offensive turned Gaza into ruins. But the September 17th pager blasts marked…

ASIA is in the grip of record heat. It began in April in the east, with historic heatwaves in places like the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand,…

AT a recent alternative energy exhibit in Islamabad, I noticed a glaring absence of micro-hydropower technology. Even during the conference, when someone inquired about it,…

All eyes are on the horrific humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza as a result of the biggest Palestinian-Israeli war yet. From the very beginning, fears…

Whereas Iran gets the discredit of causing escalation between Pakistan and Iran on January 16, 2024, Pakistan gets the credit of de-escalation from the forum…