Recently, President Xi Jinping made two high-profile visits to Asian countries—Pakistan and Indonesia—which is indicative of China’s push for regional outreach, from East Asia to West Asia. While in Islamabad, Xi unveiled China’s biggest aid and investment package for a single country. And while in Jakarta he had a detailed meeting with Myanmar President U…
Economic sustainability and political stability were the two main issues in the recently held presidential elections 2015 in the Republic of Uzbekistan. The voters rightly elected Islam Karimov for his miraculous socio-economic achievements in the past years. National security, societal harmony, continuation of financial and banking reforms also remained under serious consideration of the voters….
US Presidential Elections 2015 will be held on March 29, 2015 in the Republic of Uzbekistan. Politics and economics are different but interconnected disciplines. Both are interdependent and interrelated in their utilities, scopes and productivities. Political stability is must for achieving the desired goals of macroeconomic sustainability. Their ideal combination leads the ways of further…
2014 ended and 2015 began with a sour note in the context of Pakistan-India relations. Two Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed on December 31, 2014 due to indiscriminate firing by Indian border guards. On January 02, Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Mr. Sartaj Aziz addressed a letter to the…
Ours is the age of globalization 3.0 where commercial diplomacy plays very important role in achieving the desired goals of socio-economic development. Rigorous commercial diplomacy promotes trade & commerce activities, speeds-up bilateral trade volumes and widens-up the scope of joint ventures and accelerates the inflows of foreign direct investments (FDIs). Pakistan and Qatar are also…
United Arab Emirates is one of the hottest tourist’s attraction destinations not only in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Middle East and North Africa (MENA) but also in the world. The success of its tourism and travel industry has further diversified its macro-economy. According to official figures (2013-14) its contribution to the GDP is more…
While Pakistan was busy in mitigating the hardship of flood victims, with the military playing an overwhelming role in rescue operations, Afghanistan was able to put behind its electoral crisis and come up with an improvised government structure for its stalled political transition. The presence of President Mamnoon Hussain during President Ashraf Ghani’s inaugural ceremony…
Elections, political system and democracy are the modern trinity of human survival, human rights, freedom of expression, socio-economic prosperity, national production and people’s prosperity. It is the easiest and smoothest way for power sharing and gross-root participation. It provides political stability and economic sustainability and stands for political wisdom and hope for betterment. It transforms…
The Republic of Uzbekistan, land of light, human wisdom and the custodian of ancient civilization has successfully surpassed all the hardships and achieved high standards of economic growth, social development, political participation and above all democratization process in the country. Its journey has now reached the shores of stability and sustainability; the sky is the…
Nearly six years on, the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement remains a controversial arrangement. As America, the leading proponent of nuclear non-proliferation (NPT) entered into Agreement 123 with a non NPT state, it threw-up a whole range of irreconcilables. Of these, one is India’s relationship with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). Additional Protocol between India and…
