Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

  • The Indo-Pacific pivot

    The Indo-Pacific pivot

    There is no real difference on this subject between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

  • In the words of Chomsky

    In the words of Chomsky

    For an individual to be counted among such guides is to achieve greatest honor of being servant of mankind

  • Chomsky: a savant nonpareil

    Chomsky: a savant nonpareil

    US linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, pictured here in 2018, has been discharged from hospital in Brazil. — AFP File There is much...

  • The Thucydides trap reimagined

    The Thucydides trap reimagined

    Geo-economics has emerged from geopolitics as the key driver of international politics and international economics today

  • Breaking the chain of corruption: Part – II

    Breaking the chain of corruption: Part – II

    These are some Yew quotes that should be of interest to all Pakistanis who recognize corruption as a deadly poison for their country

  • Breaking the chain of corruption —  Part – I

    Breaking the chain of corruption — Part – I

    Representational image.— APP FileAnti-corruption measures can only have cumulative success if they are part and parcel of good governance. In the...

  • Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – III )

    Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – III )

    Pakistan’s policies, whether external or domestic have, by and large, been an extended series of short-term policies that never add up to a...

  • Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – II )

    Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – II )

    Dr Kissinger is no less lucid and illuminating in his book, ‘On China’, where he contrasts Western concept of strategy and statecraft with its...

  • Strategic leadership and statecraft  — Part I

    Strategic leadership and statecraft — Part I

    Pakistan today barely pretends to be a democracy

  • Stabilizing the economy

    Stabilizing the economy

    Mueen Afzal mentioned two economists whose writings have fundamentally influenced thinking on development economics

  • The people have stood up

    The people have stood up

    While true heroes of this epic are people of Pakistan tenacity, courage and conviction of Imran Khan must be acknowledged and saluted

  • A long and graceful life

    A long and graceful life

    He was indeed a polymath, a person whose excellence spans a whole spectrum of fields

  • Things that did not happen

    History is what has happened or is happening. But sometimes it is what does not happen. So, the other day I had a meeting with Imran Khan that never...

  • Climate, world order and Pakistan - Part II

    By 2050 Pakistan will have at least 350 million people. Its military and elite dominated political paradigm, neo-feudal attitudes, budgetary...

  • Climate, world order and Pakistan - Part I

    Pakistan today is in such a state where only historically unprecedented actions on a historically unprecedented scale can ensure its survival. This...

  • Stark reflections

    The Pakistan Movement by and large could have delivered on the hopes of most of the Muslims of undivided India even if they were not able to be part...

  • A country betrayed

    Sehbaye yaqeen dar kash wa az dair-e-gumaan khez/ Az khwab-e-giran, khwab-e-giran, khwab-e-giran khez – Allama IqbalAn entity – whether a...

  • A shared Nobel Peace Prize?

    The writer is a former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan.On February 25, 2021 the joint statement of...

  • Compromise or catastrophe?

    The writer is a former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan.In memory of Zainul Abedin, whom I got to...