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Hussain H Zaidi
Hussain H Zaidi

The writer is a graduate from a western European university

  • July 18, 2026

    Why peace is elusive

    A man walks past a billboard near the media centre as delegations from...

  • July 04, 2026

    The Islamabad MoU

    A Pakistani Ranger walks past a billboard for the US-Iran peace talks in...

  • June 21, 2026

    State of the economy

    A representational image of budget written with chalk on a miniature...

  • June 13, 2026

    Are we still a unipolar world?

    A desk globe showing the map of the United States in this...

  • June 04, 2026

    The million-dollar question

    India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during an event at Hyderabad...

  • May 19, 2026

    Takeaways from the Xi-Trump Summit

    The scene as US President Donald Trump participates in events at the...

  • May 13, 2026

    Hindutva in West Bengal

    Bharatiya Janata Party activists hold party flags during a rally in...

  • May 04, 2026

    Is CSS no longer worth it?

    Federal Public Service Commission building is seen in this image. —...

  • March 12, 2026

    The regime change gambit

    A member of the Iranian police attends a pro-government rally in Tehran,...

  • March 03, 2026

    Russia-Ukraine: four years on

    The image displays the national flags of Ukraine and USA flying...

  • January 02, 2026

    Deconstructing PIA’s privatisation

    This picture released on February 9, 2023, shows Pakistan International...

  • December 23, 2025

    A bit of history

    A man holding flags of Pakistan and Bangladesh. — APP/File Relations...

  • December 02, 2025

    Carving out new provinces

    Quaid-e-Azam's tomb in Karachi. —TheNews/FileIf stories doing the...

  • November 01, 2025

    The rise and retreat of the TLP

    Saad Hussain Rizvi, leader of banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan , waves...

  • October 17, 2025

    It wasn’t just bad choices

    The representational image shows Pakistan Army soldiers standing alert...

  • October 02, 2025

    The revolution that made a superpower

    Representational image shows people enjoying their time on a hill...

  • September 25, 2025

    What does the pact mean?

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...

  • September 18, 2025

    Let the specialists plan

    A man wades through a flooded street during heavy monsoon rains in...

  • September 12, 2025

    Not sweeter than honey

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks with Russian President Vladimir...

  • September 04, 2025

    An alternative to the West?

    Chinese President Xi Jinping poses with member states of the Shanghai...

  • August 15, 2025

    When Congress lost an opportunity

    Pakistani and Indian soldiers take part in the flag lowering ceremony at...

  • August 07, 2025

    Is 19pc tariff a good deal?

    US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on tariffs, in...

  • December 30, 2024

    BB and the art of realpolitik

    Benazir Bhutto, like Indra Gandhi in neighbouring India, did not have to start from scratch

  • November 24, 2024

    Deja vu in East Asia?

    During WWII, Japan’s economy and national morale were plummeted by its doomed alliance with Germany

  • October 29, 2024

    Seniority sidelined

    In parliamentary system, which is in vogue in Pakistan, in theory executive is creation of legislature

  • October 23, 2024

    Geo-economics over geo-politics

    Napoleon once said: “The foreign policy of a country is determined by its geography”

  • October 17, 2024

    The media and the spectacle

    Media not only presents facts but also shapes perspective from which facts are seen and interpreted

  • October 07, 2024

    China at 75 – and beyond

    Two classic validations of the Yin-Yang philosophy are the ascendency of capitalism in the 20th century

  • October 02, 2024

    Age is not just a number

    Decision rests on two variables: increasing life expectancy and growing share of old people in population

  • September 24, 2024

    Our national soap opera

    Pakistani politics is full of twists and turns like a smash-hit soap opera

  • September 15, 2024

    Paradox of depopulation

    The higher relative size of young population, the greater the supply of workforce and less the spending on old age and post-retirement benefits

  • September 08, 2024

    The EU’s Chinese dilemma

    The more the Beijing-Washington relations slide and the more the Chinese economy and market expand, the more intensity the dilemma assumes

  • September 04, 2024

    Afghanistan’s moral dilemma

    After taking over in 2021, Afghan Taliban had announced they would rule country according to Shariah.

  • August 25, 2024

    Downsizing is not the answer

    Cabinet committee on institutional reforms has proposed to cut some 150,000 positions in the federal government

  • August 16, 2024

    Personal, not principled

    If politics is the art of deception, Khan stands above his rivals head and shoulder

  • August 03, 2024

    A tale of two Indias

    India trumpets its secular credentials, but minorities are put to death on slightest suspicion of eating beef

  • July 27, 2024

    Quotas may not be the perfect answer

    Protesters allege that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid is playing a double game

  • July 21, 2024

    The power of the cult

    The only antidote to a powerful cult is its followers’ disenchantment with it

  • July 14, 2024

    The ‘change’ in Iran

    After winning election, Pezeshkian promised that his victory would usher in a new chapter in the country’s history

  • July 08, 2024

    A land of ‘bholas’

    Deceased were part of a massive gathering assembled to listen to the wise words of a ‘holy man’