Do you wonder why we cannot manage to create noble laureates, prominent economists, computer scientists, etc who can work for the prosperity of the country as Israel and some other countries have managed to create all of them?
Due to foreign assistance and external debt, Pakistan could not chart out its sovereign foreign policy which must have been based on the interest of her and her people. However, it remained under the influence of the US, IFIs, and other countries
Russia is afraid of Ukraine’s appetency to join NATO, which Moscow claims is a redline and concerned about the set up of NATO members near its border, which NATO members, as it assumes, will set military training centers that ultimately will give them a foothold in the region.
The repeated reference to “Indo-Pacific”, a policy frame promoted by the Trump administration, reflects the Biden administration’s continued outreach to the region and the way US foreign policy has been recast by China’s expanding influence.
Pakistan has been undergoing multifarious socio-politico-economic challenges since its inception, but the most hazardous of them is population explosion which can beget various economic...