These days President Ashraf Ghani is busy in useless pursuits. He has taken his anti-Pakistan rhetoric to new heights by threatening to shut the Afghan transit route for Pakistani exports to Central Asia if Islamabad does not allow Afghan traders to use…
The Pakistan-India relations are once again touching the lowest levels of threshold specifically after the allegations poured by India against Pakistan regarding the Uri attack. Situation for both countries was already critical with the recent happenings of vehemence in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK).…
THE SAARC Conference was held from August 2-4, 2016 in Islamabad on the sidelines of which the 7th SAARC Home Ministers meeting also took place on August 4, 2016. The meeting was taking place in a conducive and friendly environment when suddenly…
Pakistan last month signed the Memorandum of Obligations (MoOs) at the SCO Summit in Tashkent to obtain the full membership of Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The process of granting full membership of SCO to Pakistan got underway in Ufa during Prime Minister Nawaz…
Pak-US relationship has always been an interesting subject. Has anyone seen the sole super power getting too much frustrated by any single country? That is Pakistan. The dilemma for Pakistan gets multiplying day by day as “do more” shadow is not prepared…
In changing regional dynamics, one most talked and discussed is the Indo-US Strategic Partnership. With the inter-regional overlapping occurring at a critical point, we see India and the Unites States outlining the vast scope and depth of the present and planned Indo-US…
The US Defence Intelligence Agency Director Lieutenant General Vincent R Stewart has said in his recent testimony to the US Senate Armed Services Committee that Pakistan’s military operation Zarb-e-Azb and Karachi operation have been successful in reducing violence in Pakistan: “Counter-insurgency operations…
The Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) organized a review meeting on “Russia’s Revival: Opportunities and Limitations for Pakistan” in IPRI Conference Hall on December 11, 2015.
Introduction
Vladimir Putin has been Russia's dominant political figure since 2000 and Russia under him is reasserting its…
ALL of South Asia is now facing a challenge of climate change that is potentially catastrophic. This climate change threatens to slow the region’s economic growth, depress standards of living, increase the threat of devastation and death, and possibly even aggravate intra-regional…
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…