Pakistan Navy in Ghana: Orchestrating Goodwill Gesture
Ubaid Ahmed
Pakistan’s ‘Look Africa’ policy to extend its impressions in Africa is a marvel step. Pakistan has had profoundly established, memorable and enthusiastic bond with African countries which dates...
Statement of Sardar Masood Khan, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, at the ...
The OIC Independent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) published a comprehensive and seminal report in March 2017 on the human rights situation in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. We...
The Kashmir Catastrophe
Brian Cloughley
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the U.S. President Donald Trump have much in common, not least, the extensive use of Twitter to communicate their thoughts, policies and...
Beyond the UN Blitz on Kashmir
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan was a man on a mission in his maiden appearance at the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA), last month. As unprecedented as...
Why the Doha Peace Process Must Resume?
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
In his customary style, the U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter and suspended the Doha peace process between the U.S. and the Afghan Taliban. Despite the...
Militarized Hindu Nationalism & Sino-Pakistan Options
Rabia Akhtar
Do ideas or beliefs play a role in state’s maneuvers in the international system? As a realist, I believe that states are inherently rational and are not guided...
CPEC, J&K and Ladakh: Chaos Revisited
Hassan F. Virk
Most of China’s neighboring countries have either been turbulent or economically weak and that makes them dependent on the regional hegemon. China’s one-size-fits-all message to the neighbors...
Pak-U.S. Relations: Looking Beyond Afghanistan
A View from Islamabad
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
In 2018, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan articulated his vision of seeing Pak-U.S. ties as dignified, and based on mutual trust, respect, and...
A Foot in the Door
A View from Islamabad
Khalid Banuri
The persistent ebb and flow in Pakistan’s bilateral relations with the United States has almost been a constant. From close contacts at the leadership level...
Mr. Khan Goes to Washington
A View from Washington
Elizabeth Threlkeld
As the dust settles following Imran Khan’s first U.S. visit as Pakistan’s Prime Minister, reviews of the trip are decidedly mixed. While Khan likened his...
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