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India-Pakistan ties: Are there any realistic possibilities of reviving engagement?
Two interesting developments have taken place in recent weeks. Firstly, a report submitted by standing committee on External Affairs recommended the resumption of engagement...
Nuclear Deterrence Equation in South Asia: Chess vs. Chess
The supreme art of war is to subdue enemy without fighting: Sun Tzu
Deterrence equilibrium in South Asia serves as an assurance for peace and...
Trump’s Dilemma: Pakistan’s Improved Narrative is Imperative
The uneasy Pak-US ties since Donald Trump’s new Afghan Policy (21st August, 2017) suffered a new year set back when on Monday Trump accused...
Titbits from NSG Special Group Meeting in 2017
Membership of India and Pakistan in the Nuclear Suppliers Group is in cold storage and pending as of now evidenced by the special group...
Pakistani politics risk aggravating problems and heightening regional tension
Self-serving Pakistani politics threaten to aggravate the country’s myriad problems that have strained its relations with the United States and could heighten tension in...
Stop treating the Pakistan army with kid gloves
In recent days, all eyes have been on President Trump’s tweet on January 1, 2018 which sent out an unequivocal message, that it can...
Tweeting Away Friends and Allies
Schoolyard name calling by an American president might be unusual, it might be undiplomatic, it might even be childish, yet it had the world...
Is MEK/Jundullah The ISIS Of Tomorrow?
One would think that the United States would have learned by now, that it is never a good idea to arm terrorist groups in...
Pakistan, Afghanistan and China Trilateral Dialogue and implications for Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
The very first tweet of 2018 by the USA’s President Donald Trump was related to Pakistan in which he said that ‘The United States...
Extension of CPEC into a Tripartite Partnership or nowhere?
Authors: Hikmatullah& Wang Li
December 26, 2017, when jointly meeting the press with Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani of Afghanistan and Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif...