Despite passing the 18th Constitutional Amendment and feeling itself secure of any threat to the parliamentary democracy, Pakistan has just escaped another accident of its democratic history. Despite passing the 18th Constitutional…
The July 28 judgement of the Supreme Court (SC) disqualifying the sitting Prime Minister of Pakistan still offers a challenge of reconciliation to all rational minds. The judgement, which is a…
Oh, the tangled webs we weave The judgement, which was supposed to be historic and which is now a public document, is being ridiculed both locally and internationally as a judgement issued…
Are we out of the woods yet? In Pakistan, civil-military relations are a reflection of the power struggle impregnating the body politic of Pakistan. Harmony in these relations might have benefitted Pakistan,…
“Though President Donald Trump has not finalised any policy on Afghanistan, it can be surmised that, in its essential detail, Trump’s prospective policy would be an extension of Obama’s Af-Pak strategy.” …
Croaked the raven: “do more”. To fathom the policy contours of Pak-US relations, especially when the conditions of relations are flowing from the US to Pakistan, the Kerry Lugar Berman Act of…
Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi has met US President Donald Trump, the first meeting after the latter won the presidential election in 2016. Modi was on a two-day visit (26 and…
Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi has met US President Donald Trump, the first meeting after the latter won the presidential election in 2016. Modi was on a two-day visit (26 and…
The ties grow tighter Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi has met US President Donald Trump, the first meeting after the latter won the presidential election in 2016. Modi was on a…
Revising our stance is a necessity Every year unfolds its own intricacies. The year 2017 seems to have ensnared Pakistan into six main foreign policy challenges. First, Pakistan is a victim of…
On June 5, a crisis at the diplomatic level suddenly surfaced in the Middle East (ME) when some countries severed their bilateral diplomatic, trade and travel relations with Qatar. The most prominent…
For the past ten years, comedy shows on television have secured their own cachets. These shows predicate mostly on politics, politicians and political events, though recently social personalities and social problems have…
Where does it go from here? The points where India finds itself in trouble are its usurpation of Kashmir and its callous treatment of Kashmiris, notwithstanding the politico-economic influence India has been…
“…there are signs indicating that British are fast losing the sense of differentiating between Muslims of one nationality and the other; they cluster all into one.” On May 22, Salman Abedi,…
The Middle East cauldron heats up Though the worst-case scenario has yet to appear in the Middle East (ME), events are hurtling towards a conflict having necessarily a sectarian overtone. Omens in…
Fingers crossed all around “Pakistan does not fully understand the Arab culture, which sprouts from the normative practices of nomadic tribes and which is replete with disputes and historical animosities mostly…
The Arab Spring of yesteryears sweeping across the Middle East (ME) made its first stop in Syria not because of the alacrity of the ruling regime of President Bashar al-Assad to reform…
