Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

A Test for Nawaz Sharif

His US visit will set the tone for Pakistan-US relations Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is on a visit to the United States at a time...

Nawaz’s second US trip

A futile agenda? In what is clearly a preemptive move to set the tone of discussions with PM Nawaz Sharif during his visit to the...

Pakistan-Iran relations

The socio-religious dimension The reason for my harping on the pressing need for improvement of Pakistan’s relations with Iran goes beyond political and economic interests...

Region of constant turmoil

It seems that secular nationalism is fast evaporating from the deserts of the Middle East. Along with that, the moderate middle is also shrinking...

Road to Tehran

It is not important from where you start to reach out to the ‘enemy’ other, from Tehran or Washington. What is important is the...

Pakistan-India relations: Why normalisation remains elusive?

Carved out as independent states out of the British Indian empire 66 years back, the Muslim-majority Pakistan and the Hindu-majority India still remain adversaries....

The Pakistan-Japan Ties

Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minoru Kiuchi, visited Pakistan on 11-12 September. He met with Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security...

Japan’s Response to Crisis in Syria

Not toeing the American line, but against chemical weapons There is a further bumpy road ahead in the Middle East. Libya was totally devastated by...

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