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Critiquing Evans and Krasner on Pakistan

By Ahmad Imran
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The relations between Pakistan and the United States (US) are a topic of much speculation and conjecture. This is an effort to analyze the “dialectics within the ivory towers of the global status quo.” Continue reading

Can Someone Stop this Carnage?

By Saeed Qureshi
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During the past few weeks, scores of precious lives have perished in Karachi in the so called target killing. Continue reading

Zardari must grab the initiative

By Farhan Bokhari

As Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari prepares to join other global leaders Continue reading

Is Turkey a model Muslim nation?

By Murat Onur

When members of Nato gather at a summit in Chicago today, the issue of possible alliance intervention in Syria is bound to come up — with the Turkish prime minister perhaps pushing the discussion.
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Political Islamists arouse suspicion

By Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

In the business world it is said that there is no such thing as a merger, there is only a takeover: the stronger party amongst the two ultimately ends up in power. Continue reading

The whiff of 1969

By:M J Akbar

There is a straight connect between the knee and the tongue: Through the jerk. When a political knee jerks, it smashes into your chin, cuts your tongue and produces garble that you can regret in the luxury of time. Continue reading

Reality check

By:Arif Nizami

Suddenly it has dawned upon our policymakers, civilian and khaki, that it is time to ‘move on’ beyond Salala. Continue reading

A passage to Afghanistan

By Arif Ansar

Most of the debate on evaluating the resolution of NATO Afghan supply lines in Pakistan has been confined to matters related to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the status of reconciliation with Taliban. Continue reading

Sleepless in Siachen

By Dr Niaz Murtaza

India-Pakistan politics often resembles the theatre of the bizarre as both sides fight to exceed the absurdities of the other side. Nowhere is this senseless competition more vividly displayed than in the Siachen dispute, whose genesis goes back several decades. Continue reading

Afghan pride at risk

A.G Noorani

THE Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement between Afghanistan and the United States, which Presidents Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai signed at Kabul on May 2, follows established precedent in its main objective but is unprecedented in the intrusive powers it confers on the powerful partner.
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