by Imtiaz Gul In recent public appearances, including in an article, the Minister for Planning, Ahsan Iqbal, has likened Pakistan to an aircraft and spelt out the basic...
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Pakistan’s Counter-Terror Conundrum
by Imtiaz Gul Executive Director CRSS Imtiaz Gul takes a look at the dilemmas faced by Pakistan in counter radical ideology and violent extremism, labels five reasons for why...
China Considers Larger Role in Afghanistan Peace Process
To play a vital role for the peace talks with the Taliban, China must convince Pakistan to engage politically and economically with all the regional powers as, a stable...
CRSS China Watch – January 25, 2016
The Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal rejected the idea of incorporating adjustments in China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route. He...
Making Sense of the CPEC Controversy
The controversy around the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) seems far from subsiding. In recent developments, political parties from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and...
The Tragedy of India’s Caste System
The 2011 census in India showed the population of Indians belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as being over 25 per cent of the population. Of these, 16.6 per cent...
Fighting Terrorism: More DHAs, More Metros
Islamabad diary A nation at war? This is the biggest fiction of all. You wouldn’t guess this from Islamabad’s development priorities or the flyover craze in Lahore. Or from the...
Reforms in FATA: A Pragmatic Proposition or a Slippery Slope?
Down the Rabbit Hole In December 2006, the then military dictator General Pervez Musharraf convened a major gathering to discuss Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas...
CRSS China Watch – January 22, 2016
The recent terrorist attack at Bacha Khan University in Pakistan was strongly condemned by China, said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Hong Lei. China firmly opposes the...
Status of Minorities: strangers in their own land
by Zeeshan Salahuddin On Tuesday, January 19, a private research institute in Islamabad released their second report on minorities titled “State of Religious Freedoms in...
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