Can the PM help?
A mediatory role for Pakistan in the US-Iran conflict could be advantageous for various reasons.
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Twenty reflections for 2020
It is well said that a nation of sheep begets a government of wolves.
Whatever it takes
Aug 5 has transformed Kashmir from a longer-term diplomatic challenge to an existential challenge for Pakistan.
The Kartarpur factor
What is to be done? Pakistan needs to keep its nerve. It has to clean up its act on all fronts.
Modi’s final solution
Is the crisis moving towards escalation or de-escalation? The next few days are critical.
Meeting POTUS
The prime minister will meet the president of the United States on July 22.
Modi won. Has India?
As a lunatic mainstream ideology Hindutva will degrade India’s future.
Global climate jihad
There is not just an emerging anxiety. There is a developing panic over the prospect of climate calamity.
Nobel Peace Prize anyone?
If the PM succeeds in satisfying FATF’s demands it will deprive India of its main narrative against Pakistan.
Pakistan foreign policy 101
Powerful vested interests define the national interest and make foreign policy. What is to be done?
Civil-military relations
The longer-term costs of deviations and dilutions of democratic governance are massive.
Promises to keep
Imran Khan remains popular. But many of his supporters are beginning to ask questions.
‘Straight as a jalebi’
A sensible and far-sighted Pakistan policy could significantly assist a time-lined Afghan settlement.
The Kashmir challenge
Armed struggle and resistance against illegal military occupation and repression are not terror.
Condemned to succeed
The Chinese dream is unfolding. The American dream is fading. What can a Pakistani dream mean?
Pakistan’s finest years?
Among Imran Khan’s challenges some will be just very tough. Others will be existential.
A class act
Yes, there have been other great Pakistani diplomats. But Jamsheed was among the very finest.
Elections and movements
Democracy is a political state of being whereas the path to it is political movement.
Triangular cold war
What are the implications of a new cold war for Pakistan?
Embarrassments & isolations
Only Pakistan can isolate itself — and it has done so repeatedly.