Engaging India | Munir Akram
Feb 17,16
AFTER an initially ‘mature’ response to the attack on the Pathankot air force base, the Indian government has reverted to …
Read MoreWomen in the Police — Bumpy Road to Equality | Mohammad Ali Babakhel
Feb 17,16While South Asian women, over the years, have made an indelible mark in statecraft, surprisingly in the sphere of the …
Read MorePakistan’s Reconstructive Surgery | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
Feb 17,16Silent. Decaying. Smouldering. Hurting without much noise. That is how most South Asians spend their mortal lives. When it becomes …
Read MoreRealism on Summits | A.G. Noorani
Feb 17,16AFTER Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore on Dec 25, India and Pakistan have …
Read MorePolitical Economy of Taxation | Sakib Sherani
Feb 17,16IF a second marriage is dubbed a “triumph of hope over experience”, what should an eighth tax amnesty scheme be …
Read MoreWhat’s ‘P’ in CPEC?: Pakistan or Punjab | Abbas Nasir
Feb 17,16A keen businessman who has been hurt badly by his own miscalculations in the past, the prime minister seems to …
Read MorePakistan & India / Top Civil-Military Brass for Extending all-out Help to Delhi
Feb 17,16ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday reaffirmed commitment to cooperation with India for probe into the Pathankot terror attack and …
Read MoreGuess How Many Bombs America Dropped in 2015 | Micah Zenko
Feb 17,16The primary focus—meaning the commitment of personnel, resources, and senior leaders’ attention—of U.S. counter terrorism policies is the capture or …
Read MoreThe US Shouldn’t Take Sides in Ksa-Iran Tension | Fareed Zakaria
Feb 13,16Over the past two decades, the United States has approached the Middle East through its own conceptual frameworks: dictatorships vs …
Read MoreGood Governance and its Digital Dividend | Tariq Malik
Feb 13,16Good governance is a hot topic in Pakistan these days. Can a fragile state deliver good governance? Ranked eleventh on …
Read MoreIndia’s Secret Nuclear City | Yasir Hussain
Feb 13,16In her address to the UN General Assembly, India’s external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, reaffirmed her country’s support for non-discriminatory …
Read MoreHow Not to Make CPEC Controversial
Feb 13,16implementation of the CPEC as before. Chief Minister Khattak told media he was dissatisfied with answers to the 13 questions …
Read MoreWe Seem to be Moving From the Culture of Writing | Zubeida Mustafa
Feb 13,16CAROL Loomis, an American financial journalist, who retired in 2014 as senior editor of Fortune magazine, once wrote, “Writing itself …
Read MoreWomen are Also Vying for the Post of UN’s Next Chief | Shazia Rafi
Feb 13,16“HE won’t vote for you; he says he is looking for a secretary general, not a secretary,” Elsa Papademetriou fumed …
Read MoreWhy India Must Bring Expertise to Help Regional Stability | Jawed Naqvi
Feb 13,16The unsettling if confounding assault on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot came a day after Pakistan’s powerful military …
Read MoreUndermining National Interests | Malik Muhammad Ashraf
Feb 13,16Chief Minister KP Pervez Khattak, of late, has been trying to foment political controversy about implementation of CPEC, particularly the …
Read MoreThe Cost of National Security | Afiya Shehrbano
Feb 13,16udging by our media, we must be the most insecure country in the world. On a daily basis, there is …
Read MoreNational Debt: Facts From Fiction? | Dr Kamal Monnoo
Feb 13,16Last week at a CPEC road network’s inaugural ceremony in Baluchistan, the finance minister in his address was visibly angry …
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