Gwadar in Pakistani Balochistan and Chahbahar in Iranian Balochistan are located almost at the mouth of the Gulf of Hormuz through which pass 35 per cent of the world’s seaborne...
Mustafa Malik
Detoxification of Pak-Afghan Narratives
Whenever Afghans, Indians and Pakistanis meet, most of them usually trade stereotypes about one another. They regurgitate cliched narratives and often get bogged down in...
What Awaits Pakistan’s Strongman in Washington?
The Pakistani Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif’s Washington visit comes at an extremely critical moment of regional realignments in the neighbourhood. It coincides with an...
Bihar Elections — Mind your Own Business, Pakistan
Bihar has spoken. A thumping rejection of the Modi doctrine. Should Pakistanis rejoice? Not really. Let the non- BJP Indians relish what seems to be a combination of Nitish...
102 Madrassas Sealed for Stoking Sectarianism
The interior ministry told lawmakers on Wednesday that it has sealed 102 Islamic seminaries for fanning extremism. Moreover, it has also frozen Rs1 billion in funds of proscribed...
Afghan Civil Society Delegates meet prominent Pakistani Experts from Media and Development Sector
As part of the interactions with the broader civil society of Pakistan within the framework of ‘Beyond Boundaries-Track II initiative”, the Afghan Civil Society delegation met...
FIRST MEETING OF PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN CIVIL SOCIETY GROUP CONCLUDES IN ISLAMABAD
Pakistan wants its relations with Afghanistan to be based on equality and reciprocity; without peace and stability in Afghanistan, there cannot be peace and stability in...
Demystifying Kashmir
The Kashmir issue is typically cast as a "territorial dispute" between two belligerent and well-armed powers in South Asia. But there is much more to the story than that....
A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India
AT SIX O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING of February 26, 2010, Major Mitali Madhumita was awakened by the ringing of her mobile phone. Mitali, a 35-year-old Indian army officer from Orissa,...
India’s Arundhati Roy Returns National Award
Renowned South Asian writer Arundhati Roy returned on Thursday her National Award for Best Screenplay, which she won in 1989. Returning her award, the Booker Prize winner said...
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