Whatever the outcome Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s protest, has been beneficial to Pakistan in multiple ways. The sneaky Maulana clearly seems to have miscalculated in depending on unflinching support by PML-N, ANP and PPP. All of them successfully filled the political landscape with a skewed and misleading narrative – that a few generals, reportedly unhappy with […]
India’s hypocritical ‘exceptionalism’, and Geopolitics
The Indian media has begun peddling a new negative narrative centred on Turkey. And as usual , though unsurprisingly, they are trying to club both Turkey and Pakistan in this discourse. In a rather blatantly worded as well as out of context insinuation on both Muslim countries, an Indian online publication Swarajya Mag, for instance, […]
Beware of looming Trump Tweet on Afghanistan!
Following release of three Indian engineers in exchange for key Taliban leaders immediately after the Islamabad trilateral contacts – US, Taliban and Pakistan early this month, should we expect another tweet-jolt on Afghanistan within next few days? Addressing a public rally at Minneapolis late last week President Donald Trump dropped the strongest hint yet he […]
Pakistan: sandwiched between conflicting US-China narratives
As China basks in celebrations around its existence for 70 years, it continues to draw lots of positive and negative attention in the West in particular. Most European and American media as well as intellectuals and academics in recent months have mostly painted China in grey, if not black – when talking of its western […]
Pakistani and Chinese establishments
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is China’s real establishment. It works with the military discipline but thinks the civilian way. It is the engine that has kept the ship i.e China afloat, steered by self-less leaders of immaculate integrity – from Chairman Mao to Deng Xiaoping to President Xi Jinping. An abiding commitment to […]
Afghanistan: is it time for harvesting peace?
Zalmay Khalilzad, the US special envoy, is anxious to translate his president’s desire for the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan through a deal as soon as possible. War-wary Taliban are also eager, so it seems, to strike a deal. At the same time, President Ashraf Ghani has also jumped into the fray raising questions as to […]
Credibility of P5 on Trial
By revoking the special status of Kashmir, India has plunged entire south Asia into a new crisis. It has imposed curfew in Kashmir and put nearly all Kashmiri leaders under house arrest. The entire valley of Kashmir is and cut off t from the rest of the world. Literally no tele or road communication with […]
Elitist architecture of privileges: who will take the first step?
Pakistan’s current narrative – both by top civilian and military leadership – rests on anti-corruption, good governance and structural reforms; the overall objective, one would assume, is the abolition of hefty privileges that previous rulers wrote for themselves into the statute books. On multiple occasions, both Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Chief of Army […]
Post ICJ Opportunity: Why Pakistan can build on it?
The case of Kulboshan Jadhav at the International Court of Justice was essentially not about the triumph or loss of either Pakistan or India. It was more about proving that India used a serving Hindu naval officer as a Muslim agent for creating and supporting terror networks to create mayhem and instability. Pakistan built its […]
Humiliation at arbitration courts
Pakistan suffered another humiliation when the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) granted a massive $5.976 billion (Rs 944.21 billion) compensation to Tethyan Copper, a joint venture between Chile’s Antofagasta Plc (ANTO.L) and Canada’s Barrick Gold (ABX.TO) for the unilateral termination of its Reko Diq, Balochistan, mineral exploration contract. This includes a $4.08 […]