Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

Delhi-bound Samjhota sent back to Lahore from border

LAHORE: All passengers of Samjhota Express returned to the Lahore railway station on Thursday after having remained stranded at Wagah for about seven hours...

The key to solving the puzzle of Afghanistan is Pakistan

Recent setbacks in Afghanistan — from the fall of Kunduz to the errant U.S. bombing of a hospital in that city — again raise...

World acknowledges Pak economic stability: Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday that the world has acknowledged the economic stability of Pakistan as the economic managers are committed...

It is vital to keep abreast of global changes, says COAS

RAWALPINDI: The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), General Raheel Sharif, on Wednesday emphasised the need for cadets to remain abreast about the latest...

Obama apologises to MSF for Kunduz air strike

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologised to Doctors without Borders (MSF) for a deadly US air strike on an Afghan hospital, as...

Weapons of war

RECENTLY, the Federation of American Scientists reported that the Indian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile project is intensifying nuclear competition between India and China. The ICBM...

ISPR rejects involvement of Pak security officials in Kunduz

RAWALPINDI: A spokesman of ISPR has strongly rejected a media report appearing in a section of the Afghan press regarding the involvement of Pakistani...

China to build four submarines in Karachi

ISLAMABAD: China will build in Karachi four of eight submarines that it is selling to Pakistan. Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer Hussain told...

Pakistan’s Afghan predicament

THE fall of Kunduz seems to have set in motion a domino effect with the Afghan Taliban forces threatening to overrun the other neighbouring...

The U.S. cannot afford to forget Afghanistan and Pakistan

Last weekend’s deadly attack on an international hospital in Afghanistan was a reminder of the terrible war that grinds on there, with Afghan civilians...

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