Pakistan’s Geo-Economic Challenge (Part II) on January 27, 2022Emerging from geostrategic location, geopolitics kept on determining Pakistan’s trajectory, both regional and international. Now, Pakistan feels trammelled and trapped and yearns for a switchover to the path of geo-economics. On the external front, Pakistan failed to notice that international dynamics had changed after the end of the Cold War in 1991. For instance, in […]
Pakistan’s Geo-economic Challenge on January 20, 2022Stemming from geostrategic placement, geopolitics kept on dictating its terms to Pakistan, which has finally realized that it is lagging behind in development based on the economy. Pakistan remained infatuated with geo-politics, which it now intends to forsake. Pakistan’s cold war (1945-1991) engagement as a South Asian proxy to militate against the spread of communism […]
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Challenges in 2022 on January 12, 2022Though the year 2022 begins with some newly found fervor bordering on ambitions, it brings along certain challenges, especially related to Pakistan’s foreign policy. In this regard, three main challenges can be counted. The first challenge is that Pakistan is finding it difficult to balance its relations between the Afghan Taliban and the United States […]
Donald Blome’s “Mission Pakistan” on December 31, 2021On 14 December 2021, in a statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, United States (US) ambassador-designate to Pakistan, Donald Blome said that the relationship of the US with Pakistan remained extraordinarily consequential for the US’ core interests. Further, “Pakistan is pursuing expanded economic linkages with the United States as part of what it calls […]
Pakistan’s new strategic pivot: geo-economics on December 22, 2021On December 14, 2021, addressing the Margalla Dialogue Forum 2021 on “Foreign Policy Challenges of Future in changing Geopolitical Landscape,” a debate organized by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said, “Indeed, we live in times of uncertainty. The world order seems to be in a state of severe […]
Humanitarian Transactions for Afghanistan on December 14, 2021On 4 December 2021, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a press conference in Islamabad to announce that Pakistan would host a session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers on December 19 to sensitise the OIC to commit to offering economic assistance to Afghanistan for humanitarian purposes. The effort […]
Post-withdrawal US-Taliban talks on December 1, 2021On 23 November 2021, the State Department of the United States (US) announced through its spokesperson Ned Price that under the stewardship of Tom West, the new US Special Representative for Afghanistan, the US would send its delegation to Doha (Qatar) to spend two days on talks with the Taliban next week. The last formal […]
Pakistan’s Afghan Concern on November 23, 2021On November 17, 2021, UN Special Representative to Afghanistan Deborah Lyons held a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York and warned the international community of the impending humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan. Further, she urged the international community to find ways to extend financial support to the Afghans, who had been sandwiched between […]
Gaffes gripping Justice Nisar on April 4, 2018To err is human. This adage is the ultimate refuge of a human being. Commit a mistake and expect magnanimous forgiveness from a fellow human being. In the public domain, every error is a gaffe which makes Chief Justice Saqib Nisar more controversial with every passing day, especially after his recent judicial activism. On January […]
Cosying up to the judiciary on March 28, 2018Sycophancy is a curse practised conceitedly in Pakistan. On March 21, during a press conference in Islamabad, Sheikh Rasheed of Awami Muslim League beseeched Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar to impose judicial martial law for three months till the time the general elections take place. Such an unscrupulous statement was expected from none other than […]