Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Ulugbek Rozilkulov visited Pakistan in Dec last year and held various meetings with high officials, including Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and President Mamnoon Hussain. During the meetings both sides stressed the need to make efforts to enhance cooperation in the economic and commercial fields and exploit the huge potential…
Introduction Had resource-rich Balochistan not been plagued by massive corruption and cronyism, the province would have been the most developed federating unit in the country. After NAB’s recent plea bargain with the former finance secretary, it seems that the entrenched corruption, nepotism and bad governance will continue to aggravate the economic depravity, political instability and…
With the Supreme Court (SC) holding almost daily hearings pertaining to the “Panama Leaks” beginning Nov 1, aspirations were high among all Pakistanis that a closure for the festering sore affecting the country’s well-being for nearly 8 months was imminent. Suddenly out of the blue the case was surprisingly adjourned till next year, a good…
With many internal and external challenges confronting the nation, the new COAS was plunged into a testing situation right from the word “go”. Stepping up his drive to isolate Pakistan diplomatically during the recent “Heart of Asia” Conference in Amritsar, Indian PM Modi’s venom for Pakistan was seen at its worst, he and Ashraf Ghani…
A new Army Chief would normally not warrant special media or public attention in most countries but in Pakistan the situation is a vastly different. The Washington Post says, “for the first time in 20 years, the most powerful official in Pakistan — a U.S. Cold War and anti-terrorism ally in which generals have often…
On the initiative of the Republic of Turkmenistan and direction of the President of Turkmenistan H.E. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov the first ever “Global Sustainable Transport Conference” was held on November 26-27, 2016 in Ashgabat. More than 50 countries participated in the conference and more than 40 deputy prime ministers and ministers of transport attended the conference and delivered…
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…
The contemporary pattern of non-proliferation politics and its South Asian direction has generated a debate on the growing Indian nuclear program along with New Delhi’s desire to secure full membership of Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG). In 2005, a state visit of the US to India added a new dimension in the South Asian arms race…
ContextAs President-elect Donald Trump puts together his cabinet that will shape the new American outlook, international actors are anxiously attempting to decipher what his presidency would mean for them, and meanwhile attempt to put a positive spin on it. Some are taking his election rhetoric and statements literally, but then he has little experience about…
Much has been written about how the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project will turn Pakistan’s fortunes around merely by being a transit for raw materials and energy resources to western China. There is the notion that Gwadar will become a ‘new Dubai’, a glimmering El Dorado on the shores of the Arabian Sea and the…
