by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2025 Real World News Diplomacy was the ticket for President Donald Trump this weekend as he hailed “great progress” in getting America a better trade deal with China while seeking peace between Indian and Pakistan and Russia and Ukraine. Trump wrote in a series of posts to Truth Social: China […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 7, 2025 A long smoldering fuse to wider conflict has reignited in the wake of a terrible terrorist attack killing 27 tourists in the mountainous Pahalgam region in disputed Kashmir. The Indian civilians were apparently targeted because of their Hindu religion. Since the unprovoked attacks in late […]
FPI / April 30, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Pakistan, a country of 255 million people that has nuclear weapons, is facing a major problem at its border with Afghanistan. Pakistan’s version of the CIA, the ISI, has reportedly been riddled with Taliban assets for years while China has increasingly replaced the United States as its strategic partner. […]
FPI / March 9, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 28 in Islamabad, Pakistan and China signed an agreement for China to begin assisting Pakistan with the selection and training of Pakistani astronauts to visit China’s manned space station. Treated with fanfare by the state media in both countries, the agreement, witnessed by Pakistan […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 23, 2024 Team Biden on Tuesday reiterated its call for a full and transparent investigation of “any claims of interference or fraud” in an election. What election? The Feb. 8 general election — in Pakistan. U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller called for an investigation when he was asked about explosive […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 18, 2024 Pakistan is politically on the brink again in the aftermath of fractious and inconclusive national parliamentary elections which ended with a wavering question mark hanging over this land of 241 million people like a political Damocles sword. Two former prime ministers, both of whom are […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 7, 2023 Thousands of illegals have been apprehended in San Miguel, Arizona since the beginning of the month, including a single group of 1,200 that surged over the border on Saturday alone, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents said. Most of the illegals are surrendering to Border Patrol in hopes of gaining […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 8, 2023 It’s been two years since the fall of Afghanistan. The tragic collapse of Kabul to the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban signaled the last sordid chapter in the Biden Administration’s appalling and shambolic “withdrawal” from America’s longest military commitment. But beyond the perceived American weakness and strategic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, June 16, 2023 Russia appears to have finally won secure access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, the goal it has pursued vigorously since the 17th Century: the old Great Game may be over, and the new begun. Russia’s inchoate, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2023 Violent protests erupted throughout Pakistan following the arrest on Tuesday of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, reports say. Khan was arrested by paramilitary forces at the High Court in the capital, Islamabad. He was detained on charges of corruption brought by the National Accountability Bureau, which he said were […]
