With only one and a half year left in the scheduled pull out of the US and Nato troops from Afghanistan, there is no concrete evidence available to suggest that the Afghan government is ready for the switch over and that its newly established forces had acquired the capability to ensure peace and ...

A strange malady has gripped the higher policymaking circles in Islamabad. There is no sense of urgency in resolving overwhelmingly important issues like the question of resetting the US-Pakistan relations. Nor are there effective solutions of the breakdown of law and order in Balochistan and the ...