PML-N has scored a convincing victory in the general elections, giving it a clear mandate to form the governments at the centre and Punjab. The elections have heralded the first ever smooth ...
Pakistan has had a chequered history, both internally and externally. Internally, political instability marked by periodic military rule has been the lot of the country. Of course, the incompetence ...
At the end of the Cold War and following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US emerged as the sole superpower. Because of its enormous economic and military power, the US loomed large like a ...
The global strategic scene is being transformed radically by the rapid growth of several economies of the East Asian region led by China, South Korea and several of the Asean member states. Now the ...
The ground-breaking ceremony of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline performed by the Presidents of the two countries on March 11 was the latest reminder of the vast potential that exists for ...
Pakistan’s recent decision to hand over the management of Gwadar Port to a Chinese company is a stark reminder of both the importance and the strength of Pakistan-China relations. The ...
“India’s grand strategy divides the world into three concentric circles. In the first, which encompasses the immediate neighbourhood, India has sought primacy and a veto over actions of ...
Education is the premium mobile or the engine of human progress and development. Economic and social progress in the modern knowledge-based world is inconceivable in a country that neglects the ...
After 65 years of Pakistan’s existence, the people are justifiably disillusioned with the performance of our rulers, be they civilian or military, democratic or undemocratic. All of them are ...
The most important objective of India’s regional strategy is to establish its hegemony in South Asia. Pakistan is the only country in the region, which is capable of thwarting the realisation ...
The liberal class and the Indophiles in Pakistan are the most vocal champions of the liberalisation of trade with India, irrespective of its consequences for Pakistan’s economy. On the other ...
It is said that a clever general in the face of an imminent defeat declares victory and orders retreat. The US plan for the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 is more in the ...
The emergence of China’s new leadership earlier this month is a momentous event, since it is not only the second largest economy in the world, but also a budding superpower of the 21st ...
The prevailing opinion in Pakistan is that after Obama’s re-election one would witness more of the same in Pakistan-US relations in the next few years. However, there is also the possibility ...
By now there is almost a national consensus that military interventions in the political process leading to the imposition of military governments on the people of Pakistan have been universally ...
A battle for the soul of Pakistan is raging in the country. Arrayed on one side are the forces of obscurantism, backwardness and intolerance, which would like to take Pakistan back to the medieval ...
It is a measure of the incompetence of our political leadership, particularly the present PPP-led government at the federal level, and the inability of our security establishment to learn from past ...
Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna’s recent visit to Pakistan was accompanied by the usual sound bites from both sides about their determination to continue the dialogue process for ...
Since the advent of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has been the target of sustained political, economic and military pressure by the West led primarily by the US and the UK. This is in marked ...
Fast moving economic, technological and strategic developments are rapidly transforming the global geopolitical scenario. China’s phenomenal economic growth combined with the rise of other ...
In a major security policy speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue at Singapore on June 2 this year, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta unveiled plans to shift the bulk of the US naval fleet to the Pacific by ...
The prospect of the Nato military withdrawal from Afghanistan, as envisaged in the Chicago Declaration issued in May 2012, raises important questions about the restoration of durable peace and ...
After protracted negotiations spanning over several months, Pakistan finally agreed on July 3 to reopen the Nato ground supply routes to and from Afghanistan. Instead of insisting upon an ...
Just when we conclude that we have reached the nadir of our fortunes as a nation, President Zardari and the coterie of the incompetent and the corrupt individuals around him make us realise that ...
The economic record of the present PPP-led federal government has been an unmitigated disaster. Most of the important economic indicators after more than four years of its rule are in a worse ...
The endgame in Afghanistan has started in right earnest. If there was any doubt about it in anybody’s mind, the recent Nato Conference in Chicago should have put it to rest. According to the ...
A sound foreign policy calculated to safeguard a country’s national interests must always be grounded in pragmatism. Leaders and policymakers can ignore this cardinal principle only at their ...
It was heartening that General Kayani in a conversation with correspondents on April 19 called for a comprehensive national security concept recognising the importance of development as its essential ...
Peace between Pakistan and India is a strategic imperative dictated by economic realities and the status of the two countries as de facto nuclear powers. Both Pakistan and India suffer from ...
The current crisis in Pakistan-US relations is caused by a clash of assumptions, expectations and interests of the two countries in their dealings with each other. Keeping in view Pakistan’s ...
Friday, 24 May, 2013
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