AS the end of the drawdown of international forces approaches in Afghanistan, concerns are mounting about its potential impact on regional stability. Afghanistan is at the threshold of the transformation decade. There is well-placed optimism in the air that ensuring the success of political,…
Status of sole super power gives the United States (US) a unique advantage of being the neighbor of every nation in the world. This exclusiveness has both positive as well as negative inferences. States around the world expect the US to solve…
Introduction
A two-day international conference on “Emerging Security Order in Asia Pacific and its Impact on South Asia” were organized by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) on November 17-18, 2015 at Marriott Hotel, Islamabad.…
Australia-India uranium deal is a marked shift to the Australian principled policy of supplying uranium to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) signatory countries. India despite being a non-NPT state would be the recipient of Australian uranium. Initially, Indian request for uranium sale was…
پانچ جنوری کو دنیا بھر میں یومِ ’’ حق خود ارادیت‘‘ کشمیر کے طور پر منایا جاتا ہے کیونکہ 1949 میں اسی دن اقوام متحدہ کی سلامتی کونسل نے اتفاق رائے سے یہ قرار داد منظور کی تھی کہ کشمیری عوام کو…
Introduction
China is part of South Asian geopolitical dynamic. The bilateral political and economic context dominates India and China’s cooperation. Both countries have been named as countries with the high potential for growth in the next 50 years in a BRICS (Brazil, Russia,…
As Pakistan and India gear up to resume talks under the renamed ‘Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue’ to discuss all issues, Indian side is striving to wriggle out of the albatross that it grew out of its fictional and unsustainable anti-Pakistan rhetoric. Sway in…
یہ بات کسی سے مخفی نہیں کہ پاکستان کی تاریخ میں سولہ دسمبر سیاہ ترین دن کی حیثیت اختیار کر چکا ہے کیونکہ 44 برس قبل بھارت کی کھلی جارحیت کے نتیجے میں وطن عزیز کو دو لخت کر دیا گیا تھا…
Fifth ministerial conference of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process (HOA) was an interesting event; it could be termed as a success. Process envisages an agenda for regional cooperation in the ‘Heart of Asia’ by placing Afghanistan at its centre and engaging its…
دنیا بھر میں دس دسمبر کو انسانی حقوق کے عالمی دن کے طور پر منایا جاتا ہے ۔ اسی پس منظر میں ماہرین کی رائے ہے کہ یوں تو دنیا کے ہر ملک میں انسانی حقوق کی خلاف ورزیوں کا سلسلہ کسی…