Irritants in Pakistan-US Relations: Way Forward
Pakistan would seem to be a natural partner for the United States. But as Pakistani diplomats and scholars assert in this new volume, the relationship between the two countries has underperformed its potential. They argue that the…
"South Asia is the region where tidal waves of geostrategy and geoeconomics collide."
- General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, NI (M)
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), Joint Staff Headquarters, Pakistan
South Asia, the fulcrum of geoeconomic cross…
Through CPEC, South Asia would cease to be a region of conflict,
and become a region of cooperation.
– Mr Ahsan Iqbal,
Federal Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control,
Government of Pakistan
Security has now become sine qua non for development. This is especially true…
Most millennials may not remember what or even who exactly and why the war in Afghanistan even began. But those who have fought in the region, live in (and around) its continually tested, re-configured horizons can probably never forget.
The papers, thought…
It is a sad and ironic reality that when one talks of global peace as the ultimate objective nowadays, one is left rather perplexed because regardless of what world leaders and policymakers may say, it is not the end-all anymore even though…
While there is increasing and alarming political divisiveness in many countries and between many people, Pakistan has opted to go the other way along with an unexpected champion of neo-globalism - People’s Republic of China - a country which has morphed from…
The Asia Pacific region has undergone fundamental changes in its organisation, security order, and power structure in the post-Cold War era. The region has become a powerhouse of global economic and geopolitical transformation as part of Asian ascendance in comparison to the…
Afghanistan is a country at the crossroads of change. Change, that can either take it out of its past and present existential crisis towards wholeness; or push it towards abysmal chaos. What the country and its people need more than anything else…
To say that policy formulation is complex is an understatement. Not only is it complex and ‘messy’, it also needs to fit into local, national, regional and often, even international contexts. This collection of papers and essays brings together the perspectives of…
Since the middle of the second half of the 20th century, the world has been witnessing a knowledge revolution where creation, diffusion and utilisation of knowledge — especially higher and technical — has gained prominence while impacting all spheres of human activity…