After some speculation about whether or not it would be included in the list of invitees to attend the global Summit for Democracy, Islamabad’s...
After an extensive policy review, the Biden Administration has begun the process of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.Pakistan had hoped that...
It’s early days yet, but after a period of protracted turbulence, the India-Pakistan relationship seems to be steadying.This steadying has largely...
Will peace with India ever be possible? Before the ascent of Narendra Modi, there were certainly a greater number of optimists in Pakistan who...
How do states signal credibility and believability to their allies, adversaries and neutral fence-sitters? Given Pakistan’s recently prepared...
The writer is a PhD candidate at Yale.As the dust settles on a closely contested presidential election in Washington, many Pakistanis are wondering...
Pakistan still has a long way to go in the fight against Covid-19, with almost 20,000 confirmed cases, and doctors and hospitals facing a harrowing...
A lot has changed in the six months since India’s unilateral annexation of occupied Kashmir.In Pakistan, both the appetite for dialogue with India...
The PM’s efforts to make Kashmir a live issue on the diplomatic stage have seen a surge in his popularity at home. But two statements by Imran...
India’s election is over, and the BJP has won in a landslide that is nothing short of historic. The Opposition has been delivered a crushing...
There are two ways to assess Prime Minister Khan’s first state visit to Iran. The first is to view the trip as a desperate bid to repair a...
With the PTI’s saddle-adjustment over and a debt crisis averted, it may be worth refocusing attention onto the guardrails of our democracy.Will...
It’s been an uneasy year for democracy in Pakistan. If there is a takeaway, it is that politics at the grassroots level continues to be an unequal...
The momentary goodwill rendered by Pakistan’s offer to India to open the Kartarpur Corridor has evaporated, reaffirming some of the bilateral...
Much has been said and written about the government’s handling of violent extremism. Recent events have made two things expressly apparent.The...
The region is once again in the spotlight. The only good news is that, during the US secretary of state’s visit to Islamabad, the two sides...
After months of regional stalemate, two events in June offer a potential roadmap for achieving a working peace.The first was the Taliban’s...
The odds that the PML-N was going to be remembered for having contributed meaningfully to Pakistan’s foreign policy and reputation-building abroad...
The foreign minister’s decision to criticise the national security adviser for meeting the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan in Islamabad last...
In a recent report, ‘Are India-Pakistan peace talks worth a damn?’, strategic expert Ashley Tellis questioned the utility of...
