by Engineer Arshad H. Abbasi CRSS Note: Pakistan plans to install about a dozen coal-fired power plants in the next three years or so. Their cumulative generation would be close...
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CPEC: teething problems
By Khaleeq Kiani IN APRIL of last year, Pakistan and China signed more than 50 agreements and memoranda of understanding to push forward around $46bn worth of a development...
Bilateral Security and Communication Concerns Addressed In CRSS-CAF Dialogue
Beijing, China: Participants of a bilateral China-Pakistan security dialogue on Friday agreed that improved communication strategies and transparency were central to successful,...
Lessons From Sri Lanka – II
by Imtiaz Gul Can development projects substitute political reconciliation? Rehabilitation, reform and reintegration of ex-combatants, and the return of internally displaced...
Any Judicial Reforms in Sight?
by Imtiaz Gul Pakistanis are great talkers. Charmers. Populists. High on complaints and diagnosis. Low on solutions — pro-active and reactive actions for course correction. The...
The Panama Papers: how the world’s rich and famous hide their money offshore
The hidden wealth of some of the world’s most prominent leaders, politicians and celebrities has been revealed by an unprecedented leak of millions of documents that show the...
The Drone War – March 2016
US drones and jets killed at least 150 people in Somalia - the highest death toll from a US strike yet recorded anywhere by the Bureau. An American airstrike killed 50 al Qaeda...
Black Sunday — Any Lessons?
by Imtiaz Gul On what we can call another Black Sunday, terrorists mowed down at least 72 innocent citizens and critically injured dozens of others in Lahore. And in Rawalpindi,...
Timeline of Deadliest Insurgent Attacks In Pakistan
by Harris Javaid At least 72 people have been killed and hundreds more injured by an explosion outside Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, where Christians celebrated Easter on...
Piety for profit
by Pervez Hoodbhoy THE other day I somehow wandered into an Islamabad store which specialises in Islamic honey. I was curious: how might it be different from, say, Australian...
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