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Sixth round of strategic dialogue held with China
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China agreed on Thursday on consolidating the existing “all-weather Pakistan-China strategic cooperative partnership” in political, economic, strategic and other areas.
The ballistic missile threat
In the second nuclear age, we have entered a new and dangerous phase of unchecked proliferation in which the missile competition between the major...
Taliban officially announce death of Mullah Omar
The Taliban has conceded Mullah Mohammad Omar, the one-eyed Afghan cleric who transformed a mob of 50 madrasa students into a national insurgency, is...
Second round of Pakistan-brokered peace talks postponed amid reports of Mullah Omar’s death
ISLAMABAD: The second round of crucial talks between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives has been postponed following reports of the death of Taliban...
Taliban Name Chief as Peace Talks Are Canceled
Planned peace talks were canceled between the Afghan government and the Taliban, which on Thursday confirmed the death of its founder and named a...
Mullah Muhammad Omar’s Life Ends With Little Clarity
WASHINGTON — In the winter of 2014, an Afghan with links to top Taliban leaders approached Afghanistan’s intelligence service with a startling tip: Mullah...
Taliban leader Omar’s tale reflects clashing agendas
In early 2011, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta confronted the president of Pakistan with a disturbing piece of intelligence. The spy agency had learned that...
One-day Seminar on “FATA: Stability, Integration and Reconstruction”
The
Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad
cordially invites you to a One-day Seminar
on
“FATA: Stability, Integration and Reconstruction”
on
August 4, 2015
at 1000-1530 hrs
Programme
Terror fight is a war for Pakistan’s survival: COAS
Islamabad: Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday called the ongoing war on terrorism a matter of ‘survival’ for Pakistan. “For the world, terrorism...
Taliban reconciliation not one-off exercise, says Fatemi
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan and Pakistan can take joint action against the Taliban groups who refuse to participate in the reconciliation process, says prime minister’s Special...