Navigating U.S. Pressure to Curtail Relations with Iran
- Blog, National Security
- November 15, 2024
Can India and Pakistan reach the stage of negotiating on key long-standing issues between both states in light of Pakistan’s aggressive India-centric foreign policy? Prime Minister Imran Khan in his inaugural speech in 2018, highlighted that Pakistan’s foreign policy priority is to improve its relations with its neighbors. However, India has rejected all attempts by
READ MOREThe Afghan Peace Process stands at a very precarious moment and carries a high risk of collapsing. The Afghan Peace Talks has made little progress since the first round of the intra-Afghan Dialogue in Doha on September 2020. The Doha Deal has been in large unable to stop the violence in the country. Furthermore, the
READ MOREIs making the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) autonomous likely to strengthen the dwindling economic security of Pakistan? The Federal Government has proposed to grant the SBP with absolute autonomy. Accordingly, a draft bill has been introduced i.e. the State Bank of Pakistan Amendment Bill, 2021 before the National Assembly. The amendment to the central
READ MOREIn 2008, Biden in a meeting with Hamid Karzai, the then President of Afghanistan claimed that Pakistan was 50 times more important than Afghanistan to the United States regional interest. However, whether the Biden Administration’s foreign policy in the context of Pakistan will be a continuation of that under the Obama and Trump Administration still
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