IN the darkest days of the conflict in Northern Ireland, there seemed to be no imaginable solution.... But in 1998 Tony Blair did secure a peace deal and even though that historic achievement is now threatened by Brexit, it nonetheless prompts the question: might a deal on another apparently irresolvable dispute — Kashmir — be possible too?... Two Pakistani leaders — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Pervez Musharraf — have considered making the sort of compromise that might have led to a breakthrough..

dilemma is summed up in Damansara MP Tony Pua’s Facebook post a day after Umno retracted its support for

One of the first things that Theresa May did after she unexpectedly became Prime Minister in the early summer of 2016 was to review a decision made by her predecessor, David Cameron, allowing Chinese state investment in a new British nuclear power plant. Her decision marked a distinct change from t

THE recent setback faced by the opposition in the Senate served as a telling reminder of its weakness even as it gears up to challenge the PTI government by its ‘long marches’ and PML-N and PPP leaders renew their willingness to cooperate with one another.... Despite this and its vociferous opposition to the State Bank autonomy bill it failed to block this in the Senate.... Even so the defeat suffered by the opposition showed it had mounted a half-hearted effort as eight independent senators,

PETALING JAYA: Manufacturing companies have emerged in the crosshairs of labour rights issues with ATA IMS Bhd being the latest to have fallen to environmental, social and governance( ESG) concerns after plantation and rubber glove companies recently. ATA shares plunged 30% to 82 sen apiece, its lowest since April 2020, on news that international home appliance maker Dyson Ltd had severed its ties with the Johor-based company over labour practices of the electronics manufacturing firm. The stock

Be it the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation( KMC), towns or the union committees, the problem is the same.... The decision to collect Municipal Utility Charges and Taxes( MUCT) in Karachi is yet to take any concrete shape.... The matter has landed in the Sindh High Court....

As the Russian economy declines, Vladimir Putin faces a classic choice between greater freedom and more repression In their classic work "Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy," recently translated into Russian for the first time, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson imagine a dictator makin

PAKISTAN’S new government will face old and persistent problems.... In fact, Pakistan can be perceived as being among the poorest countries.... It is true that, officially, it is bracketed with lower middle-income countries, but in terms of per capita income, its position is lower down....

Join our Whatsapp channelPakistan captain Mohammad Rizwan acknowledged a dilemma over the fifth

, ” Johnson said.... But Johnson’s lonely dilemma is being sharpened as the administration singles him