The Annual General Meeting of the KCFR members was held physically at 11:00 am on Saturday 30th July 2022 at Defense Club, DHA Phase 2, Karachi. Following attended: S. No. Name Designation Physical/Virtual 01. Lt. Gen (R) Moinuddin Haider Chief Election Commissioner Physically 02. Mr. Ikram Shegal Chairman Physically 03. Mr. Javed Ashraf Hussain Vice Chairman…
Pakistan has opted to launch another outreach effort to improve relations with its two unpredictable neighbours India and Afghanistan. However, this sort of diplomatic impatience is not likely to work. What needs attention is identification of fault lines which come back in circles to haunt each such effort by Pakistan, and then try to rectify…
Excluding rarities, the Palestine policy of successive US administrations have been erratic, ambiguous and, may be mischievous, aimed at maintaining status quo. No serious efforts have been made to reconcile the operational level contradictions of this policy. Though halfhearted diplomatic efforts were launched with pomp and show by most of the administrations, these were crookedly…
During his June 2015 visit to Bangladesh, Modi made a startling confession of an otherwise known reality that Bangladesh came into being largely due to Indian covert support to separatist elements and overt military aggression. India has never reconciled to the reality of creation of Pakistan. Irrespective of the party in power, there has been…
Yes, one may argue whether two to three feet taller boundary wall could have prevented the attack, but one can’t deny the fact that this low and dilapidated boundary wall is a symbolic representative of our overall national counter terrorism effort and the attitude of those responsible to prevent such attacks. Training Institutions, like the…
Donald Trump’s victory has caught the World by its throat, and in all likelihood, we are in for interesting times. The first post-election Trump-Obama summit showed a grim looking Obama trying to put up a brave face. Every analyst is busy in separating Donald J Trump’s electoral rhetoric into pursuable and abandon-able categories. However, his…
The failures of Afghanistan’s dysfunctional government are phenomenal. So called decade of transitions is marred by corruption and inefficiency. President Ashraf Ghani is busy in useless pursuits, recently he took his anti-Pakistan rhetoric to new heights by threatening to shut the Afghan transit route for Pakistani exports to Central Asia if Islamabad does not allow…
While Indian political and military leadership is busy eating its words pertaining to surgical strikes, Pakistan’s response to escalation by India has been prudent and systemic. Starting from initial response by the foreign office and ISPR, Pakistani leadership utilized the last week in firming up its response. The week started with a meeting of all…
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the focus of attention for the people of Pakistan because of its rich and far-reaching benefits. CPEC is part of China’s strategic ‘One-Belt, One Road’ initiative, known as OBOR, which talks about connecting about 64 countries in three continents. “The OBOR will be the largest economic belt in human…
August 14-15 were celebrated by Pakistan and India as respective independence days— the tenor of celebrations was as if both are rejoicing independence from each other rather than from the colonial master—Britain. This time Pakistan had dedicated its independence day to the ongoing freedom struggle in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). And to re-rail the process…
