Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi

Trump’s tariff policy weaves a trade war tapestry
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- April 17, 2025
UNFORTUNATELY, a new trade war is on the brink. The protectionist and anti-globalised tariffs, recently announced by President Trump “fundamentally change the international trading system”.…

PMIF is poised to boost our national economy
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- April 10, 2025
THE Pakistan Minerals Investment Forum (PMIF) aims to establish Pakistan as a major player in the global mining economy. It seeks to leverage Pakistan’s extensive…

Recalibrating Pak-US ties under Trump’s second term
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- April 3, 2025
RECENTLY, President Trump’s administration has tendered its gratitude to the Pakistan authorities’ regarding their current role of counter-terrorism in Afghanistan. Trump’s narrative regarding Pakistan suggests…

Jaishankar distorts histo-legal truth on Kashmir
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- March 27, 2025
INDIA’S Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s latest statement on Kashmir is India’s fascist attempt at distorting histo-legal truth on Kashmir. The Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) has condemned…

Deliberating amid ‘an epic counter-terrorism operation’
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- March 20, 2025
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that the current BLA’s planned terrorist attack on Jaffar Express passengers in Balochistan offers some thoughtful deliberations regarding our security policy to…

OIC endorses a multilateral reconstruction Gaza plan
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- March 13, 2025
LAST week, in response to President Trump’s unilateral Gaza’s occupation plan, the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) adopted a multilateral reconstruction plan in Gaza,…

India’s BrahMos misfire drew ‘blow to strategic stability’
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- March 6, 2025
THE accidental firing of an Indian BrahMos missile that crashed in Mian Channu, Pakistan, on March 9, 2022, posed a significant mortal danger to the…

Balakot strike: India’s false flag operation violating int’l law
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- February 27, 2025
SIX years ago, India launched a false flag operation at Balakot (KP) via an airstrike conducted on February 26, 2019, and attempted to throw dust…

Pak-BD ties: A shift from centrifugal to centripetal approach
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- February 20, 2025
REMARKABLY, Pakistan and Bangladesh undergo to experience a new phase in their bilateral relations, marked by a mutual agreement to closely collaborate for the progress…

Trump’s hybrid Middle East tapestries brew risks
- By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi
- February 13, 2025
RECENTLY, US President Donald Trump’s stunning announcement that if the 2. 2 million Gazans don’t evacuate the Strip, the US could take over the…







