Mohammad Jamil

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was reflective of aspirations of people of Pakistan and Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control. He stated: “Pakistan fully supports the demand of the Kashmiri people for self-determination, as promised to them by several Security Council resolutions. The people of […]

The death toll in ongoing unrest in Kashmir has reached 87 after the pellet-riddled body of an 11-year-old was found in Srinagar on Saturday. Reportedly, the boy was injured in clashes between protesters and security forces in Harwan on Friday; he had gone missing immediately after the clashes. More than 40 people were injured in […]

Turkey’s relations with the US were already strained due to latter’s support for the Syrian Kurdish militia groups known as the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which are closely linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Turkey views the YPG as terrorists, and has many a time asked America to stop pampering and supporting them, but […]

Afghanistan is already in the throes of a multidimensional civil war, and with the rift between the partners of the Unity Government and intensified Taliban attacks, the country is adrift to more uncertainty, chaos and anarchy. In an August 11 speech in Kabul, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah had criticised President Ashraf Ghani for taking unilateral […]

Addressing a press conference at the conclusion of the 8th SAARC Finance Ministers Meeting, Ishaq Dar said, “Several mechanisms had been established to deepen the economic integration of the SAARC region. We are now moving from the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) to the South Asian Economic Union.” However despite vows and claims, trade […]

The recent bloodshed in the Indian-occupied Kashmir has received wide coverage in international as well as domestic Indian media, and condemned by a cross section of people. Even the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the US have advised India to stop violence and resolve the issue through dialogue. It means they recognise the Kashmir […]

The purpose of this discourse is to examine civil-military relationship in Pakistan, and to understand how it works in other countries. There are no two opinions that every organ of the state should work within the parameters outlined in the constitution, as overstepping into others’ domains in the name of activism — be it judiciary, […]

Pakistan faces major challenges of income, gender, health and educational inequalities in extreme forms. Over 25 million school-age children are estimated to be out of school; more than 3.7 million of our labour force is unemployed; and about half of total population is victim of food insecurity. Since quality of life is directly linked to […]

Since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, the Durand Line remains a contentious issue between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and is said to be the main reason for strained relations between the two countries. Afghanistan calls it the Durand Line after the British diplomat Sir Mortimer Durand under whose watch the demarcation was done following a treaty between […]

The failed coup in Turkey was not the coup in the real sense of the term, as it was planned by a section of the military, and the chain of command — the chiefs of army, air force and navy — was not involved in it. Apart from that, there are many reasons for the […]