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Shahid Ilyas
Shahid Ilyas

The writer is a research officer at the Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad.

  • October 13, 2022

    Diplomacy: back on track?

    On their recent visit to the United States to attend the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister...

  • February 27, 2020

    What are we dealing with?

    India’s numerous public pronouncements that Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan belonged to it must not be ignored. Prime Minister...

  • September 15, 2018

    Pakistan: old vs new

    While the phrase New Pakistan is the catchword in present-day political discourse, rarely have we pondered over the salient features of ‘Old...

  • March 21, 2018

    From empires to nation-states

    Many of us tend to believe that the democratically strong and economically advanced countries of today – Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the...

  • February 03, 2018

    CPEC and regional challenges

    At no point in time should we forget that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is an essential part of President Xi’s ambitious Road and Belt...

  • January 14, 2018

    Narrowing the gulf

    In a recent visit to Beijing to attend a seminar, the earnestness of Chinese scholars to wish for Pakistan to come out of its multifarious troubles...