Where the fortune lies on September 24, 2018New York is once again in frenzy. Entourages of governments’ top brass from around the world along with NGOs and civil society activists have descended and are choking the city’s already packed streets. The new UN General Assembly session began last week. The General Debate session, where the high and mighty, deliver speeches will run […]
The essential fight on September 19, 2018The removal of Professor Atif Mian — the revered Princeton economist — from the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) is an odious indictment of Pakistan at multiple levels. For one, the majority of the otherwise raging TV anchors and their panelists were at pains to wiggle out of its causes and effects. Euphemisms were abundant and […]
The state of international law today and Pakistan on May 22, 2018If international law, in short, is the set of rules that countries follow in dealing with each other, these are trying times. While conflicts have increased three fold in recent years, two recent events could not have set the stage better for the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) formal debates on ‘upholding of international law’ […]
Finding our footing on January 19, 2018All three latest US statements by its Centcom Commander, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, signify continued engagement with Pakistan. But by no means is there any certainty about what the US policy will entail. Business as usual cannot be an option for us. More disparaging than […]