Dr. Imran Khalid

Imran Khalid is a freelance columnist on international relations based in Karachi, Pakistan.

Bridging Divides: U.S.-China Climate Talks Signal Hope for Global Collaboration

In a pivotal moment for global climate action, Liu Zhenmin, China's envoy on climate change, and John Podesta, the senior adviser to the US...

The Xi-biden Summit Is Expected to Bring Positivity to Sino-US Ties

In a significant development for Sino-US relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to meet with his US counterpart, President Joe Biden, in San...

The BRI: Balancing Sustainable Development

Ever since 2013 when China launched its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), some Western powers, driven by misplaced apprehensions, have been persistently fueling a...

Age, Legal Woes and Biden’s Presidential Ambitions

With the US presidential election looming just a year ahead, Democrats find themselves in a disconcerting predicament. Recent polls have sent ripples of concern...

Biden Is Slipping Into a Quagmire

In a matter of days, things have suddenly taken a very ugly turn for US President Joe Biden. His political career, it appears, has...

Pelosi’s Diplomatic Ventures to Salvage Democrats in the Midterm Polls

Why Nancy Pelosi, the US House Speaker, has embarked upon a series of jetting into hotspots one after another – Kyiv, Taipei and now...

The Ukraine Imbroglio

After half a year of launching blitzkrieg invasion of Ukraine, Russia now ostensibly appears to be, as per majority of the Western analysts, sinking...

Will Trump Survive the New Controversies Over the Raid?

Not surprisingly, being the epitome of neo-populist movement of this millennium, former US President Donald Trump is embroiled in another series of controversies. Recently...

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The New Power Centers of Sports Diplomacy: Cities, Capital, and Code

If power in sport now lives in city halls, boardrooms, and algorithms—not stadiums—how will the U.S. wield cities, capital, and code as it hosts the world’s biggest events over the next decade?

Four Years On, Ukraine’s War Still Refuses to End

Four years on, Ukraine’s war drags across 1,200 km, cities in ruins and millions displaced. Russia entrenched, Kyiv defiant, the West divided—how long can a war of attrition outlast political will before exhaustion decides the peace?

How Timor-Leste Uses Tourism to Cement Its ASEAN Role

After joining ASEAN in 2025, Timor-Leste is leveraging sustainable, high-value tourism to boost soft power, diversify beyond oil, and cement its regional role—positioning itself as Southeast Asia’s next authentic frontier, not its next mass market.

How Far is Cuba From a Total Collapse?

How close is Cuba to collapse? Energy strangulation, fading allies, and Trump’s oil squeeze after Venezuela’s shift have left Havana isolated and rationing. For the first time in decades, the regime’s survival feels uncertain.

The Maghreb’s New Architecture: Beyond the Myth of the Algerian Pillar

Madrid 2026 wasn’t diplomacy—it was redesign. Washington moves past Algeria’s veto politics, backs Morocco’s autonomy plan, and seeds a Tunis-Rabat axis built on energy sovereignty, phosphates, and geo-economic integration. The Maghreb’s balance is shifting.