Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

Transformational change needed for progress: Ahsan Iqbal

Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal has said reforms were like oxygen for those countries wanted development. Addressing workshop on ‘Uplifting Public...

Pakistan doesn’t want to be part of arms race: Sartaj

Prime Minister’s Advisor on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, said on Sunday that Pakistan did not want to be part of an...

Joint defence strategies against terrorism

While there have been encouraging recent developments between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Pakistan is weary of India threatening to entrench relations of conflict and competition...

A step forward

The civilian leaderships of both countries will have to take a decision if they want a peaceful solution of Kashmir.   Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar...

Rise Gwadar

THE opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 provided the British with a much shorter route to access their colonial possessions in India. With...

Why is India not interested in talks with Pakistan?

“India is not expecting any dramatic results from foreign secretary S Jaishankar’s visit to Pakistan on Tuesday,” a report from the Press Trust of...

In the right direction

As of now, Pakistan-Afghan relations are currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation, manifest in Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s latest phone call to Prime Minister Nawaz...

Developing enduring relations with Afghanistan

A qualitative change is taking place in the nature of Pakistan-Afghanistan relationship. After years of undermining each other, both countries have realised the folly...

Visible and invisible

When things begin to happen too rapidly, it can give you goose bumps. It almost seems like we live in a new Pakistan, which...

Russian opening

WHEN Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov landed in Beijing earlier this month, he drove directly from the airport to meet his Indian counterpart Sushma...

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