Asif Ezdi

Asif Ezdi

  • The Iran deal and South Asia

    Last month’s nuclear deal under which Iran agreed to very substantial curbs on its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of economic and...

  • A new language policy

    On July 10, the government informed the Supreme Court that it had issued an executive order for the replacement of English with Urdu as the...

  • In Musharraf’s footsteps

    The meeting on July 10 between Nawaz Sharif and Modi at Ufa on the sidelines of the SCO summit will go down as a major diplomatic retreat by...

  • Playing the honest broker

    The meeting brokered by Pakistan last Tuesday in Murree between representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban was the first one in which...

  • Saving the NGOs

    There are many reputable international non-governmental organisations established or funded by official and semi-official agencies of different...

  • The rise of the Indian Ocean rim

    Last Tuesday, the German Foreign Office hosted a conference in Berlin to discuss the competing interests of different international actors in the...

  • India’s problem with the economic corridor

    At a press conference on May 31 held to highlight the Modi government’s foreign policy achievements during its first year in power, Indian Foreign...

  • Parrikar’s admission

    Indian Defence Minister Parrikar’s remarks on an Indian news channel on May 21, that Delhi has a policy of “neutralising terrorists through...

  • Arrogance and trickery

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to China from May 14 to May 16 was the second top-level visit between the two countries since the...

  • India’s Chabahar gambit

    Last Wednesday, India and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop the Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman, not far from Gwadar, which...

  • Regional dynamics of the economic corridor

    Xi Jinping’s visit to Pakistan two weeks ago was the first to the country by a Chinese president since that of his predecessor Hu Jintao in 2006....

  • The Iran deal and us

    Almost a year and a half after the initial interim deal of November 2013, under which Iran agreed to roll back or freeze parts of its nuclear...

  • Pakistan’s Yemen dilemma

    For nearly two weeks now, the government has been agonising over its response to a Saudi request for Pakistan’s participation in a military...

  • Ending the gridlock on Musharraf’s trial

    There could hardly be a more open and shut case of treason than the one against Musharraf for his attempt to overthrow the constitution in November...

  • India’s string of pearls

    From March 10 to 14, Indian Prime Minister Modi made a much-publicised trip to three island states of the Indian Ocean – Seychelles, Mauritius and...

  • In all its ugliness

    The three-yearly election to the Senate, which had filled the air with revelations of corruption and vote-buying, ended somewhat tamely last week...

  • The climb-down

    Seven months after India abruptly called off foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan in a huff over a meeting of the Pakistan high commissioner...

  • Don’t play with the ballot

    Last week the Nawaz government announced two proposals which if adopted would practically complete the transformation of the Senate from an elected...

  • Misguided stance

    In my article last week , I suggested that in countering the ambitions of the Group of Four countries, to get permanent seats on the UN Security...

  • Threat to the UN’s universality

    Perhaps the greatest asset of the United Nations today, deeply flawed as its working and structure is in many ways, is the universality of its...