Articles by Maleeha Lodhi
IN a recent television interview, Rana Sanaullah said the government was considering raising the voting age to 25 as part of its deliberations on moving the 28th constitutional amendment. He explained...
THE summit meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping produced no surprises. The pomp and ceremony during the visit were as expected. The summit was more about optics than outcome...
THE answer to the question whether the UN is irrelevant today is yes and no. Yes, because if the Middle East crisis triggered by the US-Israeli attack on Iran is a test of relevance, then the UN has f...
IT is becoming increasingly uncertain how long the Iran war, now in its third month, will last. Until recently, it seemed American and Iranian interests aligned in wanting to avoid a protracted confli...
HOPES that the visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to Pakistan would lead to the resumption of direct talks between the US and Iran did not materialise. The White House had announced it w...
WHICHEVER way the Iran war ends, its consequences will be felt for a long time to come. Its security, economic and diplomatic fallout has global implications. This will urge countries to reshape polic...
EVEN though talks in Islamabad between the US and Iran did not produce a deal, that they happened at all after five weeks of war was itself significant. There was no breakthrough but also no breakdown...
RARE earth and critical minerals are the newest arena of competition between the big powers. While China dominates the global supply of these minerals, the US is trying to catch up by rushing to strik...
CANADIAN Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos was one of the clearest enunciations of the strategic adjustment countries, especially middle powers, need to make when faced with a bullying su...
IN launching the second phase of his peace plan for Gaza, President Donald Trump announced a complex four-tier governance framework with Palestinians given no representation in the top three tiers and...
