COVID-19
Lockdown Paradox
by: Haris Gazdar
Date: April 25, 2020
Analytics or Values Is there a trade-off between saving lives and saving livelihoods? Individuals make decisions about this more often than they might notice. There are too many hazardous occupations...
Special Feature | COVID-19
Health Advisory for Pakistan During COVID-19: Reducing Transmission of COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings
by: Dr. Hasan Naveed, Professor Christopher Liu
Date: April 17, 2020
Protecting healthcare workers and patients Advice to hospitals in Pakistan SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, is highly efficient in person-to-person transmission, and for a relatively low infective dose. It spreads by...
Troubling Times
Date: February 6, 2020
16 Days of Activism
Date: November 25, 2019
Asia Advisory
The Turkish Skirmish
by: Muhammad Amir Khan
Date: October 22, 2019
The Latest Turkey’s military operation in Syria came to a 120-hour pause after US Vice President Mike Pence, visited Ankara to discuss the ceasefire in a meeting with President Erdogan....
Asia Advisory
Trade and Tribulations
by: Arsalaan Nazir
Date: September 25, 2019
Are the United States and China engaged in a cold war lite? The shift in US-China relations towards contestation, rather than cooperation, has expanded. Many within the US administration increasingly...
Second Opinion
A Deal Too Far?
Date: September 19, 2019
After months of speculation about an impending peace deal between the US and the Taliban, the failure of the Trump administration to clinch a hard fought negotiated settlement has thrown...
Asia Advisory
Indo-Pak Tensions Cloud SCO Moot
Date: June 17, 2019
Heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries, including India and Pakistan, met in Bishkek for the 19th Leaders’ Summit on Friday. Despite speculation around the possibility of a more...
Asia Advisory
Beijing’s riposte to the Huawei ban
Date: June 10, 2019
In an escalating trade war, China has announced that it is looking to restrict exports of rare earth minerals to the United States. Rare earth minerals – there are 17...
Asia Advisory
Tensions in the Far East
Date: June 9, 2019
China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe has once again reiterated China’s policy of reunification with Taiwan. Speaking at the recently concluded Shangrila Dialogue, Wei Fenghe said that if any country stood...