I can’t help recalling a book in a series on shikaar (hunting) by famous hunter of man-eating tigers Kenneth Anderson titled “The Tiger Roars“!  Why? Well the elections in Pakistan of course, in the Punjab province’s capital Lahore in constituency NA-120 (National Assembly-120! And because the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)s election symbol was a tiger and this political party’s closest rival …

By James M. Dorsey   In the three-month old Gulf crisis, nothing is too expensive or too down and dirty when it comes to buying influence, garnering soft power, and trying to win hearts and minds. It is a battle fought primarily by the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, the Gulf’s two megalomaniac states, on European soccer pitches, in the …