Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Ahsan Iqbal, Daniyal Aziz, former chairman of National Reconstruction Bureau and others at the consultative workshop (Feb 19) on Social...
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New Politics and Civil Society in Asia: A Pakistani Perspective
A general overview of what happening around the developing world: what is new politics in democracies craving for change or those in democratic transition? And what are the...
CRSS ED Imtiaz Gul to advise UN Rapporteur on Drones
Ben Emmerson QC, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, has picked up Imtiaz Gul, the executive director of the independent Centre of Research and...
India-Pakistan Tensions: Brinkmanship?
The events that followed a series of controversial incidents on the Line of Control beginning on January 6 lead to an obvious conclusion: the ups and downs that the...
The Bara Tragedy
The inhumane killing of 18 tribesmen on January 15, 2013 in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas, should serve as a wakeup call for all the parties...
The Threat Lies Within
In its newly published warfare doctrine manual ¿Green Book– Pakistani military has added a new chapter titled ¿sub-conventional warfare–. The new addition suggests, that the...
Pakistan Security – 2012 Dance of death and destruction continues
The overall level of violence declined by almost 15 percent during 2012[1] across Pakistan.[2] Meanwhile, ethno-political violence in Karachi (Sindh), religio-political terrorism...
Terror vs. Terror: Drones fighting a war of ambiguity
With the war on terror stretching on to the next decade, the spate of drone strikes in FATA seems to see no end. The strikes continue with the implicit support of the Pakistani...
Audit 2012: Perspectives on Economy, Energy, Rule of Law and Democratization
Islamabad (December 28, 2012): Bad governance, mismanagement, deficit legal framework and lack of financial discipline are plunging the state deeper into the abyss. Present...
Bombs and Executions Rock Pakistan
Three bloody incidents involving at least 50 deaths within first ten days of 2012 underscore the perilous security conditions that still prevail in northwestern parts of...
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