Syed Ali Zia Jaffery One of the biggest foreign policy challenges for Prime Minister Imran Khan since his assumption of power last August has been Pakistan’s Middle East policy. The predicament was and is to navigate fissures within the GCC countries, and those between Riyadh and Tehran. Over the past nine months, Pakistan has reconfigured […]
Salma Shaheen Twitter has been very instrumental in escalating and de-escalating tensions during the Pulwama Crisis of 2019 between India and Pakistan which started after a young Kashmiri attacked Indian paramilitary forces resulting in death of 40 Central Reserve Police (CRPF) soldiers on February 14, 2019. Politicians in both countries effectively communicated their emotions, resolve […]
Qadir Khan Yousafzai The genesis of the Islamic State (ISIS), the world’s wealthiest and the strongest terrorist group, is traced back to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. When Al-Qaeda formed its Iraq chapter, it provided a platform based on financial benefits to martial but jobless soldiers of the Saddam era. In 2004, another […]
Khalid Banuri A substantial amount of opinions and reflections has been made in print and electronic media about the incidents that took place in South Asia during the last two months, triggered by the Pulwama attack in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), in which 40 personnel of Indian para-military force were killed through a suicide […]
Zulfqar Khan and Ahmad Khan The peculiar nature of bilateral relations between the United States and China in space is the triggering point of a space security trilemma in South Asia. The spillover effect of a misperception-misunderstanding dynamic between the United States and China in outer space has brought strategic transformation between the bilateral relations […]
Taimur Malik Pakistan and India came close to a war once again at the end of February 2019; a war that would have led to suffering, destruction and economic distress on both sides of the border. There are perhaps many reasons for the ongoing conflict between the two neighboring states, mistrust is certainly one of […]
H.E. Mr. Nicolae GOIA is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to Pakistan. Since taking over his ambassadorial responsibilities in Pakistan in 2016, Mr. Nicolae has been instrumental in working towards strengthening Pak-Romanian relations with special emphasis on education, culture and trade. Pakistan Politico discussed with him the evolving dynamics of Pak-Romanian and Pak-EU relations […]
Andrew Korybko The Valdai Club, Russia’s most prestigious think tank, published a thought-provoking and visionary piece on Russian-Pakistani relations in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack and the latest round of Indo-Pak hostilities that it provoked. One of the most profound geopolitical consequences of the Pulwama attack and the latest round of Indo-Pak hostilities that […]
Mosharraf Zaidi Almost a month after the mini war that began with India’s invasion of Pakistan through an attempted attack in Balakot district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, there is still a substantial amount of confusion in India about what happened. How did an Indian Mi17V5 helicopter go down at 10:10 am, the day after the Balakot […]
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery The induction of nuclear weapons in South Asia has given primacy to the concept of deterrence in the strategic discourse between arch-rivals, India and Pakistan. Bilateral deterrence between the South Asian dyad has, over the course of two decades, stood the test of crises, including the recent spat following the attack […]
