After drumming up war hysteria for several days, India’s top brass has taken the route of de-escalation, manifest in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words on September 24...
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Daesh, Haqqanis and Sanctuaries
Abandoning a project in which the United States and its partners have invested 15 years, billions upon billions of dollars, and thousands of lives with no acceptable outcome in...
Multiplicity of opinions and ideas is crucial for growth and progress: Dutch Political Affairs Sec
As a child, I was fortunate that I was always able to engage my teachers and explore a range of concepts and questions because critical thinking was encouraged. This is...
Surgical Strikes and The Doval Doctrine
Internally, the Indian security forces seem to be set on a kill-maim-blind-disable campaign in Kashmir. Externally, New Delhi has embarked on a...
Indian Factor in Afghanistan
For the past 10 years or so, India has been fishing in the troubled waters of Afghanistan for a central role and to marginalize Pakistan in the final settlement of the Afghan...
Surgical Strikes Post-Uri?
The writer heads the independent Centre for Research and Security Studies, Islamabad and is author of Pakistan: Pivot of Hizbut Tahrir’s Global Caliphate Within hours of...
Responding to a Dangerous Time
Following joint analysis has been penned by Pakistan's three former foreign secretaries Inam ul Haq, Riaz Hussain Khokhar, Riaz Mohammad Khan, and Mahmud Durrani, retired...
Flawed approach to Pakistan
THERE are several choices that Pakistan has made over the decades that have contributed to regional problems and there continue to be areas where official rhetoric and policies...
Misunderstanding Afghanistan
Pakistanis, no matter what their political inclination may be, rarely consider Afghanistan a sovereign set of people. There are the right-wingers for whom Afghanistan is a...
It takes Two to Tango
Before looking at the future of the current thaw, let us rewind to the tumultuous year of 1999. In February that year, Atal Behari Vajpayee became the first Indian prime minister...
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