Mr Wang Yi, State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China, explicitly mentioned that China desires to build sustainable partnerships with Muslim Ummah. While attending the OIC meeting in Islamabad, he said that China was looking for a mutually beneficial and respectable partnership. It is not the first time that China has expressed its desire to […]
PM’s Visit to China: Time to Deliver
The joint statement after the visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to China explicitly explains the depth and strength of the bilateral relationship between Pakistan and China. Both countries showed a strong resolve to work together and protect the core interests of each other. Pakistan reiterated its commitment to the core interests of China, including […]
National Security Policy: Gap Analysis
National Security Policy of Pakistan (NSPP) is a good attempt of the government to come up with a vision and policy to tackle present and future challenges. The new framework of security is quite comprehensive and elaborative in many aspects. The government must be appreciated that it has broadened the concept of security and tried […]
Celebrating 20 Years of SCO
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) started with a low profile but was extremely focused on the goals and objectives. Since the inception of the organisation, the SCO is adhering to the principles of respect, trust and win-win cooperation. The principles led to the successful execution of plans and achievement of the most urgent objective, including border […]
FATF Choosing to be Unfair
There is an old story of a man with a long beard. He lived in a village where somehow his neighbours did not like him. They all wanted to expel him from the village. However, they could not find any valid excuse. One day, a genius came up with a genius idea. He assured villagers […]
Of farmers and middlemen
The middleman is an evil and responsible for all ills of agriculture and farmers’ miseries. This is the prevailing narrative in government circles these days. We can find many government officials and advisors, busy preaching the need to eliminate the role of middleman. It is good that the government has realised middleman are the exploitative […]
China-USA conflict and role of military-industrial complex
President Trump came into power by championing the anti-China rhetoric. Trump administration launched a multifaceted war to squeeze and contain China. They used all tools including human rights, democracy and debt trap to achieve the objective. Hong Kong and Xinjian were targeted, and a malevolent campaign was run. The sane voices started to raise concerns, […]
Geo-Politics, China and Pakistan
President Xi speech at UN can be summarized around three key messages, 1) world needs a fair and dignity-based system, 2) no more bullying and 3) Human has common future. China’s international relation policy is revolving around these key areas. China is refining its’ approach to martialize the dream of fair and equality-based system without […]
Securitization of economy
Economic security is a fascinating and mesmerizing terminology. It influences the minds and dictate the policy discourse and decision making at individual and national level. The notion of economic security is part of literature and policy from unknown times, but with different angle and perspective. The concept always kept well-being of people at the center. […]
Pakistan-China 70 years of growing together
Pakistan-China relationship cannot be understood by applying conventional theories or conceptual frameworks of diplomacy and international relation. The relationship is unique, wide-ranging and encompasses all fields of life. It is based on two inimitable ingredients, love and care, which are scarce commodities in international relation. It is not mere statement, history is full of events […]