India-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Meet: The Hype and the Substance
admin India-Pakistan foreign minister-level talks, held recently in Islamabad (September 7-8, 2012) to review the bilateral process, were significant…
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Policy debates on strategies to end extremist violence frequently cite poverty as a root cause of support for…
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The private provision of security and military services challenges conventional assumptions about the roles of the nation state…
Read MoreArmy ‘excuses itself’ once again from providing security in LG polls
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army has once again excused itself from providing security outside “sensitive and most sensitive” polling…
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ABBAS NASIR, a former editor of Dawn, writes in Dawn about the drama unfolding in Pakistan of frequent…
Read MoreMilitary Establishment Wanted Shehbaz Sharif As PM In 2018, Claims Hamid Mir
Senior journalist Hamid Mir claimed that the establishment’s preference was to make Shehbaz Sharif prime minister in 2018,…
Read MoreThree C’s Of Anti-Establishment Politics In Pakistan
The year 2022 has been tumultuous for Pakistani politics. Only a year ago, PTI was one of the…
Read MoreWill the army really quit meddling in politics for good? Who will intervene with the intervenors? That surely is to ask for too much.
Abdul Moiz Jaferii The best historical perspectives offered in these pages about Pakistan read simultaneously as current affairs…
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