Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 22, 2025 In a ritual of near farcical folly, the UN General Assembly has elected fourteen new members to join the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. The otherwise low-key annual ballot raises political hypocrisy to a heightened level. These new Council members including countries like Angola, Egypt, Iraq, […]
FPI / October 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the 1970s China has assisted Pakistan’s nuclear weapon and nuclear missile buildup that could soon include intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) — according to the former Biden Administration that sanctioned involved Pakistani companies in December 2024. A Pakistani ICBM capability makes little sense in relation to […]
FPI / September 25, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Following a process that took “several months to finalize,” on Sept. 17, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed a “Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement” (SMDA) that extends Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent to Saudi Arabia. This pact […]
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 […]
