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 MORECOVID-19 has taken the world by a storm. With the first case emerging on 26th February 2020, Pakistan has recorded more than 630,000 cases and 13,000 deaths. Pakistan was able to respond quickly due to the nationwide early lockdown, travel bans and the introduction of The National Action Plan for ‘The CoronaVirus Disease (COVID-19) Pakistan’,
READ MOREThe Western World has come to appreciate why, “may you live in interesting times” is a Chinese curse. The world is experiencing a dramatic shift in its geo-political and geo-economic order, under the influence of China, to which the West refers to as a “disorder”. The question of concern is whether this evolution is an
READ MOREThe road to development has never been an easy one to journey on. It is an inevitable journey on which every country must embark in order to have a brighter, healthier and a greater future, and Pakistan is no exception. But to succeed, Pakistan must secure its greatest asset: its economy but its economy is
READ MOREPakistani policymakers have hinted towards a shift in Islamabad’s foreign policy paradigm in the recently concluded Islamabad Security Dialogue, a shift from a predominantly geostrategic policy to a geo-economics one. Pakistan wants to be at the center of an East-West connection in South Asia and its new outlook is based on achieving sustainable economic and
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
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