Pakistan & Afghanistan / US General Seeks Pakistan’s Help to Defeat Afghan Terrorists
WASHINGTON: It is important to ‘enlist’ Pakistan for defeating terrorists in Afghanistan, says a senior US general nominated to head …
Read MorePakistan in the New Great Game | Ayaz Ahmed
The New Great Game introduced by Ahmed Rashid in the 1990s is centred on the Central Asian energy politics which …
Read MoreWhy Obama is Wrong About Pakistan | Munir Akram
Who wants peace in Pakistan? IN his final State of the Union address, US President Obama predicted a decade of …
Read MoreFuture of AfPak
Decision time With the other Sharif now in Washington, the AfPak part of US-Pakistan equation, at least, will be debated …
Read MoreAfghanistan: Moving Forward | Khalid Aziz
Pakistan’s adviser to the prime minister on foreign affairs stated recently that the time was not yet ripe for restarting …
Read MorePak-Afghan Drift
Different aims Ever since Afghanistan and Pakistan parted company they have continued to drift apart. This is making the task …
Read MorePak-Afghan Relations | Ali Ashraf Khan
THE worsening Pak-Afghan relations, that came down after a short interlude of cooperation in fighting terrorism and exchange of information, …
Read MoreNeed for Harmonious Focus on Pak-Afghan Bilateral Relations | Hashim Minhas
Internationally, it is widely agreed that the significance of cordial relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan for the regional stability and …
Read MoreAnalysis: Leaked Paper Reveals Origins of Obama’s AfPak Policy | Khurram Husain
A FRESHLY leaked paper reveals that many elements of what would later become President Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan were framed …
Read MoreAfghan Issue to Dominate White House Talks
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was accorded a red-carpet reception on arrival here yesterday for a three-day official visit to the …
Read MoreFiction and Facts Surrounding Pakistan! | K. Iqbal
Last week threw up a few fictional and factual settings impacting Pakistan in one way or the other. It will …
Read MorePakistan-US Ties may Sour Again Following Kunduz Allegations
ISLAMABAD: Ties between Islamabad and Washington could sour once again after US intelligence officials tried to implicate Pakistan in the …
Read MoreWay Forward in Pak-Afghan Ties | Malik M Ashraf
PAKISTAN’S friendly overtures toward the newly installed unity government in Afghanistan and the consequent interaction between the leaders of the …
Read MorePakistan is For Peace With Neighbours
SINCE coming to power Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been constantly sending signals to the neighbouring countries for building of …
Read MorePak-Afghan After Kunduz | Afrasiab Khattak
After the extremely deep involvement of the Pakistani state in Afghan “Jihad” in 1980s (subsequently recognized to be the largest …
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 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 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 …
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