A Surging Pakistan? | Dr Niaz Murtaza
GLOBAL reviews about Pakistan, eg by credit rating companies and Washington Post, have suddenly become rosier after years of gloomy …
Read MoreAbandoning Pan-Islamic Diplomacy | Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani tore down Pakistan’s hitherto Pan-Islamic ideology of diplomacy in a recent interview with BBC on the …
Read MoreState and Citizens | Malik Muhammad Ashraf
The responsibilities that the state needs to fulfill Providing health care and education are universally recognised as essential and basic …
Read MoreReforming the United Nations | Zahid Hussain
IT is indeed a seminal year for the United Nations as world leaders assemble for the annual General Assembly session …
Read MoreGovernance and Democracy | Ahmad Nazir Warraich
Every now and then we hear noises being made in favour of authoritarian form of government. Perhaps this is a …
Read MorePak-India Relations — Is There a way Forward? | Talat Masood
Once again, expectations were raised and quickly dashed when it became clear that there was no likelihood of a meeting …
Read MoreThe Interest Rate Conundrum! | Dr Kamal Monnoo
To spur investment and economic growth, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) dropped interest rate on September 12, 2015, by …
Read MorePolitical Ferment in the Muslim World | Shahid Javed Burki
The world of Islam is not a homogenous place, not even in the way religion is practised in its many …
Read MoreGhani Says Pak-Afghan Ties not Brotherly
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Monday that relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan were not brotherly but like a relationship …
Read MoreGeopolitical Importance: A Different Perspective | Lt Col Khalid Masood Khan (Retd)
Encyclopedia Britannica defines Geopolitics as, “analysis of the geographic influences on power relationships in international relations.” Traditionally, the geo-political importance …
Read MorePakistan and the United Nations | Masood Khan
THE United Nations is etched into Pakistan’s memory and psyche because of the Jammu and Kashmir issue. In January 1948, …
Read MoreKashmir Conflict & Indo-Pak Ties | Ali Ashraf Khan
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif talking to the media on way to the United States, where he is set to speak …
Read MoreIAEA praises Pakistan’s nuclear security record
ISLAMABAD: Director General (DG) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano praised Pakistan’s impressive nuclear security record spanning over four …
Read MoreSCO Membership – A Potential Trump Card for Pakistan | Zafar Bhutta
ISLAMABAD: The process of granting Pakistan full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) got under way in Ufa during …
Read MorePakistan Extending Training and Technical Support to Developing Countries: PM
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while addressing a high-level roundtable on South-South Cooperation at the United Nations (UN) on …
Read MoreThe Balochistan conundrum | Ali Ahsan
In his 1997 book “The Grand Chessboard,” former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski described the critical importance of Eurasia …
Read MorePak-Afghan Relations | Saleem A Sethi
Address issues, forget blame game The terrorist attack on Badaber air base has brought into focus both the internal and …
Read MoreUS-India declaration
THE hyphenated relationship is back, it appears. Pakistan-India, or India-Pakistan to much of the outside world, has at various points …
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