Afghanistan yesterday, today, tomorrow: Pak-US role (part one)
Pakistan and Afghanistan never enjoyed friendly relations since the latter didn’t accept the Durand Line as an international border and laid claims over Pashtun...
China in the Middle East: Stepping up to the plate
By defining Chinese characteristics as “seeking common ground while reserving differences,” a formula that implies conflict management rather than conflict resolution, Messrs. Sun and...
Neo-Bilateralism: A perspective on Pakistan’s foreign policy
Pakistan has long remained under the radars of the great powers as a courtesy of her geostrategic and geopolitical significance. Since its inception, Pakistan...
Will India-Pakistan LOC peace lead to Kashmir solution?
India and Pakistan have both announced to “strictly observe” the truce along the Line of Control and all other sectors “in the interest of...
Pakistan’s cotton sector: innovation and investment
|Shahid Sattar and Eman Ahmed Textile and apparel manufacturing not only serves as a creator of jobs, but also carves a sustainable path to industrialization,...
India’s Hybrid Warfare Against Pakistan: Challenges and Response
The term ‘hybrid warfare’ entered the strategic lexicon in the early 21st century despite having been practised in various forms for a long time....
Delayed US withdrawal necessary for peace in Afghanistan
We have learned from the past that without a complete political settlement among Afghan stakeholders and a division of power through free and fair...
Celebrating 70 Years of Pakistan-China Friendship
May 21, 1951, was a defining moment in the history of Pakistan. It is the day when Pakistan established formal diplomatic ties with the...
Kashmiris and their indomitable fighting spirit
A group of envoys visited the illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir State ostensibly to take first-hand account of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and...
What’s wrong with CSS; understanding power dynamics
The Cabinet Committee on Institutional Reforms has approved a proposal for renaming the existing Central Superior Services (CSS) as the Central Services of Pakistan...
Pak-China; an ironclad friendship growing stronger
On May 21, 1951, the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan entered into formal diplomatic relations. In the seven decades...
Pakistan’ role in saving Europe from fast-spreading communism
It’s a famous proverb that every rise has a fall. Across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean countries, from the rise of Aztec civilization and...