alzebindiaNov 3, 20222 min readPakistan and China to extend CPEC to AfghanistanPakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is in China on an official visit and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. This was...
alzebindiaOct 20, 20227 min readCan India ever forgive or trust China? 60 years of 1962 Indo-China war: An overwhelming majority of Indians don’t think India can trust China. At the same time, a big majority thinks they won’t boycott Made in...
alzebindiaOct 19, 20222 min readIs FATF poised to overlook Pakistan’s support to terrorists?The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will decide this week whether Pakistan should be kept in its “grey list” for further...
alzebindiaOct 18, 20223 min readWhy the Taliban Still Love Suicide Bombing The group is normalizing death and despair in the IslamicSoon after they seized control of Kabul in mid-August, the Taliban paraded their Istish-haadi (“seeking martyrdom”) or suicide bomber...
alzebindiaOct 17, 20222 min readWill Pakistan get off the ‘grey list’? FATF plenary meeting to decide this weekDays before the last FATF plenary meeting in June, a Pakistani court convicted LeT operative Sajid Mir on charges of terror financing....
alzebindiaOct 6, 20225 min readThe Chinese Communist Party’s Ride-or-Die MomentAt its upcoming congress, the party will triple down on a leader whose policies are proving increasingly self-defeating. Xi Jinping, the...
alzebindiaOct 6, 20222 min readPakistan Backstabs Russia, Pakistan Routing Arms & Ammo To KyivAmid the Russia-Ukraine war, Islamabad has supplied weapons and ammunition manufactured in Pakistan for Ukraine's use in the ongoing...
alzebindiaOct 4, 20225 min readHow China and its allies pool resources to target overseas dissidentsThe Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Interpol are commonly used to pursue political opponents overseas. Authoritarian regimes...
alzebindiaOct 3, 20224 min readDRAGON: Is it burdening poor countries with unsustainable debt?China has faced criticism for its lending practices to poorer countries, accused of leaving them struggling to repay debts and therefore...
alzebindiaSep 29, 20224 min readFor Russia, China is neither a 'big bad wolf' nor a 'fairy godmother' but perhaps 'Rumpelstiltskin' This month, while the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit was being held, the Global Times, an English-language Chinese...
alzebindiaSep 27, 20222 min readUN Questions Taliban Claims of Good Security, Governance in AfghanistanThe United Nations warned Tuesday that de facto Taliban authorities are failing in their claims of security and good governance in...
alzebindiaSep 27, 20225 min readUyghurs Genocide: And the Culprit Is—XiJinping New evidence conclusively proves that the President personally planned the anti-Uyghur campaign in all details. The President of China...
alzebindiaOct 7, 20212 min readPakistani military exposed in Pandora Papers :Taha SiddiquiThe names of at least eight former Pakistani military officials and their family members have been named in the latest set of documents...
alzebindiaOct 7, 20215 min read‘Barriers to Girls’ Education in Naya PakistanPakistan was described as "among the world’s worst performing countries in education,” at the 2015 Oslo Summit on Education and...
alzebindiaOct 5, 20217 min readISLAMIST RADICALISM IN PAKISTANWhile religious radicalism in Pakistan is strongly associated with General Zia, and is often believed to be a remnant of the Cold War...