Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

The Non-Talks and after

Talks between the National Security Advisers of Pakistan and India have been called off. After a week of accusations and counter-accusations, we are told...

Pak-China trade: Importance of negotiating the FTA

KARACHI: Pakistan and China enjoy an all-weather friendship that has tested tribulations of geo-political and economic challenges. Pakistan was one of the three countries...

India, Pakistan blame each other for cancellation of talks

NEW DELHI — India and Pakistan blamed each other for the cancellation of talks between their national security advisers that were scheduled for this...

Pakistan lodges strong protest with Afghan Envoy over rocket attack

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday summoned Afghan Ambassador to its Foreign Office and lodged its protest over the cross-border rocket attack that martyred four Pakistani...

Planned high-level Pakistan, India talks falter over Kashmir

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s national security adviser said Saturday he was ready to travel to New Delhi for the first-ever direct talks with his Indian...

Afghanistan to revitalise ties with Pakistan: EU envoy

ISLAMABAD: European Union’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Franz-Michael Mellibin said on Friday that Afghan government was thinking about “revitalising” the process for normalisation with...

India objects to talks between Pakistan, Kashmir separatists

NEW DELHI — Talks between the top security advisers of archrivals India and Pakistan have hit several roadblocks over the contentious Kashmir region before...

All issues, including Kashmir, to figure in NSAs meeting: FO

ISLAMABAD: Undeterred by New Delhi’s objections, Pakistan’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Sartaj Aziz will be meeting Kashmiri leaders from the Indian Occupied Kashmir during...

‘Mirwaiz terms attempts to block travel for Pakistan reception as unfortunate’

WASHINGTON: Chairperson of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq, has termed as ‘unfortunate’ attempts by the Indian government to prevent...

No ‘formal agenda’ for NSA talks in Delhi

There will be no ‘formal agenda’ for the upcoming meeting between the national security advisers of Pakistan and India after the two hostile neighbours...

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