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Desperate quest for Afghan peace

Optimistic reports on COAS’ Kabul talks The maiden one day visit of the COAS to Kabul on Sunday at Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s invitation started well enough with a one-on-one meeting which was termed<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/10/02/desperate-quest-for-afghan-peace/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Oct 2, 2017
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Interior Minister versus the Rangers

Can the Prime Minister thread the needle? On Monday Nawaz Sharif appeared before an accountability court for a second time to face charges in three graft cases prepared by NAB against hi

Oct 2, 2017
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Foreign minister and foreign office

Same page?  Typical of the foreign office to play down the Islamic State (IS) threat in Pakistan the same day police prevented a possible disaster in Karachi by killing five IS militants

Oct 1, 2017
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Sharifs, PML-N and democracy

The future  The shift from “Why did they disqualify me?” to “I know why they disqualified me” didn’t just betray a subtle, though significant, shift in Nawaz’s posture, it al

Oct 1, 2017
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Brittle rupee again

It will fall Barely a year since IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) was wrapped up, the rupee is simply unable to maintain its artificially bloated position in the face of steadily declinin

Oct 1, 2017
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Safe Haven of another kind

Fear of rupee devaluation drives investors into dollar territory Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, despite his indictment, may be stubbornly resisting resignation, but his policies are already beginnin

Sep 30, 2017
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Talks with Afghanistan

What is required is flexibility and diplomatic finesse The way to Pak-Afghan reconciliation is heavily mined. There are historical roadblocks like the Durand Line and the presence of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/09/30/talks-with-afghanistan/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sep 30, 2017
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The opposition leader slot

Politics and bedfellows PTI cajoling MQM, and the latter gleefully hosting the former in Karachi, would have been an outright impossibility not too long ago. But eating one’s words for pers

Sep 28, 2017
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Nawaz’s defiance

Divorced from reality?  There was nothing new, really, in Nawaz Sharif’s much anticipated press conference. And despite making more or less the same speech since the GT Road long drive

Sep 27, 2017
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Verbal wars and a howler

Indo-Pak hostility sizzles at UN forum International delegates at global and regional forums must be fed up of the perpetual Indo-Pak animosity which inevitably spills over in these conferences, drawing media and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/09/27/verbal-wars-and-a-howler/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sep 27, 2017