National honor and prestige : PM,COAS must not meet Alice Wells
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | The American State Department has just announced that Alice Wells, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian...
How India wants to encircle Pakistan and why it will fail…
Jan Achakzai | The Trump Administration’s new strategy in Afghanistan envisaging partnership with India will likely raise security concerns for Pakistan. The US strategy anchored on...
The winners and losers in Trump’s Afghan strategy – III
M K Bhadrakumar | The tone and content of the statement issued in Islamabad on Thursday after the meeting of the National Security Committee, here, regarding President...
Trump unveiled an anti-CPEC strategy, not an Afghan one
Andrew Korybko | Trump recently announced his strategy for Afghanistan in a prime-time speech that was preceded by official announcements that the dispatch of approximately 4000...
Trump ‘New’ Afghanistan strategy is neither new, nor a strategy
Rupert Stone | It is a common feature of democratic politics that more a leader promises change, the more things will stay the same. Professions...
Pakistan’s security issues
James M. Dorsey | Remarks at ISAS Panel Discussion: Pakistan in challenging times, 25 August 2017. The facetious answer to the question, what security challenges Pakistan...
Old wine in a new bottle
Dr. Zafar Jaspal | President Donald Trump announced his belated Afghanistan strategy and also laid out his South Asian future plan on August 21, 2017. Realistically, there...
The winners and losers in Trump’s Afghan strategy – II
M K Bhadrakumar | (The first part is here.) CHINA China has paid high attention to the speech by US President Donald Trump on Monday outlining the way forward...
The winners and losers in Trump’s Afghan Strategy – 1
M K Bhadrakumar | India and China are the only two regional capitals that have commented on the US President Donald Trump’s speech on August 21...
President Trump’s speech and our reactions
Muhammad Ali Ehsan | My first impression after hearing President Trump’s speech was – does it serve our interest to be so diplomatically humiliated from...
Will Trump’s ‘new’ Afghan strategy be successful?
Nasir Azeem | The Foreign Policy of every state on the world map is always carved out to protect its national interests. But what is...
Unlike Trump, JFK didn’t bend the knee to US Establishment
Jacob G. Hornberger | Like President Trump, President Kennedy was subjected to the same type of pressure by the Pentagon and the CIA to engage in...