Nuclear Pakistan: Bolstering Strategic Stability in South Asia By Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
28 May 1998 saw the birth of the seventh nuclear-weapon-state when Pakistan decided to respond to India’s nuclear tests carried …
Read MoreHope For Peace | Editorial
The state of relations between Pakistan and India is so poor right now that any sign of progress in the …
Read MoreTime to Recalibrate Pak-US Ties By Sultan M Hali
Washington still needs Islamabad Pak-US ties have been like a roller coaster — tumultuous, tempestuous and alternating between highs and …
Read MoreTwists And Turns Aside, NA Completes its Five-Year Term By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in the country’s chequered parliamentary history, the third National Assembly in a row managed to …
Read MoreNuclear Mainstreaming By Yasir Hussain
The Western academic community agrees that, had India not detonated its nuclear devices, it would have been almost impossible for …
Read MoreOversight: Caretaker Prime Ministers Over The Years
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Leader of the Opposition Khurshid Shah on Monday named former chief justice of Pakistan …
Read MorePakistan’s Aspirations From The Upcoming SCO Summit By Muhammad Asif Noor
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s 18th Summit of Heads of States is just around the corner in Qingdao, the host city in …
Read MoreUS Trade War or Recipe For Disaster By Rashid A Mughal
OVER 1,100 leading economists sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging the president to reverse course on recent trade …
Read MorePak-India Peace | Editorial
THE relative rarity in recent times of good news on the Pakistan-India front makes it all the more welcome when …
Read MoreImpact of the US’ Exit From the Iran Nuclear Deal By Sonia Naz
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed in 2015 between P5+1 (US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany) …
Read MoreWorld Bank Disappoints Pakistan By Iqbal Khan
THE Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) is a profoundly important international agreement that provides an essential cooperative framework for India and …
Read MorePerception and Misperception on the Korean Peninsula By Robert Jervis and Mira Rapp-Hooper
North Korea has all but completed its quest for nuclear weapons. It has demonstrated its ability to produce boosted-fission bombs …
Read MoreSyria And Disarmament | Editorial
The international community is up in arms over disarmament. Or, to be more precise, Britain and the US are more …
Read MoreNuclear Supplier Group’s Upcoming Plenary By Beenish Altaf
With the approaching of the twenty-eighth Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), an elite nuclear cartel to control …
Read MorePakistan, India Agree to Restore LoC Ceasefire By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD: In a rare positive development, Pakistan and India agreed on Tuesday to restore ceaseÂfire on the Line of Control …
Read MoreDigital Pakistan | Editorial
OVER a year since it was first floated, the federal cabinet approved the Ministry of Information Technology’s ‘Digital Pakistan’ policy …
Read MoreSCO and Pakistan By Zamir Ahmed Awan
THE Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), created in Shanghai, China, on June 15, 2001, is a political, economic, and security organisation …
Read MoreNuclear Pakistan – The Way Forward By Ambassador Tariq Osman Hyder
Twenty years on after Pakistan was compelled on 28 May 1998 to demonstrate its nuclear capability it continues to evoke …
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