On January 5, 2015 the Pakistan Parliament in a joint session of both Houses (Senate and National Assembly) passed 21st Amendment to the constitution of Pakistan, establishing...
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Pakistan raising special force to protect Chinese experts
The government is secretly raising a high-profile force comprising some 1,000 personnel with the help of Pakistan Army to provide fool-proof security cover to the Chinese experts...
Chinese conglomerate SUMEC connects Pakistan’s first megawatt-level PV plant to the Grid
The 1.25 MW PV plant covers 16,000 m2, and the abundant sunshine in the area will produce 1,745,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of solar power annually, SUMEC emphasizes. Solar power...
Drone Strikes, International Law and Implications for Pakistan
Drone strike kills five in North Waziristan Nine suspected militants killed in drone strike near Pak-Afghan border. Such screaming headlines in Pakistani newspapers or TV...
Caught NAPping
There is an upper limit to what this government can accomplish, intellectually, ideologically and operationally On December 16, Pakistan as we knew it seemed to have changed....
Changing Global Alliances
New alliances are taking shape in the international politics. America’s role of sole superpower has been challenged on many fronts from Middle East to Ukraine to China becoming...
Media, Free Speech and Consequences
Pakistan in its quest to exterminate every kind of extremism, terrorism and hatred from within its borders is formulating policies one after other to reach a conclusive solution....
Pakistan’s apathetic rulers
It may be unfair to characterise Pakistan as melting and burning from within. Dubbing it a dysfunctional state may also be an overstatement. But the current governance and the...
China Confirms Pakistan Nuclear Projects
Top official confirms extent of the growing Sino-Pakistan nuclear link. A Chinese official publicly confirmed Monday that Beijing is involved in at least six nuclear power...
Governance and Pak-China relations
Bad governance, the hallmark of the PML-N administration, continues to cause problems to the government and the country. Three projects started with the Chinese participation...
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