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...
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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...
Quadrilateral Coordination Group: Roadmap to Reconciliation
Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and the US met in Kabul on January 18 for the 2nd Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) meeting to devise a roadmap for peace in Afghanistan. The...
State of Minorities in Pakistan
Violence against religious minorities in Pakistan has seen a considerable rise in recent years. Non-Muslims constitute about three percent of Pakistan’s estimated population of...
CRSS China Watch – January 21, 2016
Pak-China Trade Swells from $9.3b To $11.8b In One Year Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that China is the most reliable friend, has always stood with Pakistan...
PIA too likely to land in Chinese Hands
State Minister for Privatisation Mohammad Zubair said on Tuesday that the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) would be on sale in the next one to two months whereas marketing process of...
The Mystery of Radicalisation
Intelligentsia in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation countries has miserably failed in offering genuine diagnoses and recipes for contemporary issues, such as religious...
CRSS China Watch – January 19, 2016
The Senate Special Committee on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor steered a meeting over the alleged irregularities in the contract. The meeting was presided by its convener...
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