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Touqir Hussain
Touqir Hussain

  • September 14, 2024

    Making sense of US-China tensions

    Differences between the two, however, will not disappear and competition will remain intense

  • August 28, 2024

    Does America know the world?

    The US does not understand the world and does not seem to care

  • July 26, 2024

    Is this a democracy in decline?

    Democracy has been declining in America for decades, especially under the impact of money and media

  • May 28, 2024

    No, Modi is not a peacemaker

    Normalization, at least partially, will likely happen not long after the Indian elections

  • April 26, 2024

    What can Pakistan do for Kashmir?

    Kashmiris in Indian illegally occupied Kashmir protesting against the Indian occupation as the forces of India looked on. — AFP/FileKashmir is no...

  • December 20, 2023

    How nations succeed

    Many of us write articles from time to time suggesting that Pakistan learn from other countries how they achieved their miraculous success. China,...

  • November 08, 2023

    Normalizing ties with India

    Pakistani and Indian border security personnel hold flags of their country at the border. — AFP/File The question often comes up, especially...

  • October 11, 2023

    Which way lies the solution?

    I have never quite understood the fascination in the West, and among the liberal class everywhere else, to see the developing societies’ problems...

  • August 25, 2023

    The cipher without a conspiracy

    The politics of the cipher saga may no longer be newsworthy but the surrounding issues have a lasting place in Pakistan’s domestic dynamics and...

  • July 27, 2023

    Living dangerously

    The IMF has released the staff report listing stringent conditions for the latest standby agreement with Pakistan. Will Pakistan be able to comply?...

  • November 23, 2022

    An underwhelming foreign policy

    Has Pakistan fared well in coping with the whole new international relations environment that has been emerging over the past few decades and the...

  • September 21, 2022

    Some inconvenient truths

    Afghan spectators’ angry and violent reaction to the defeat by Pakistan at the Asia Cup has disappointed Pakistanis. Many feel outraged by the...

  • August 29, 2022

    Domestic foreign policy issues

    A country’s leadership is supposed to serve its economic and security interests, advance people’s wellbeing, and respond to their aspirations...

  • August 01, 2022

    Faulty assumptions

    The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior visiting research fellow at the National University of...

  • June 25, 2022

    Manufacturing a policy

    The eagerness of the US to start, provoke or engage in wars is well known but what is not commonly known or understood are the reasons. The Russian...

  • January 19, 2022

    A bridge from a bygone era

    The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior visiting research fellow at the National University of...

  • December 13, 2021

    Debating Pakistan’s future

    The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior visiting research fellow at the National University of...

  • September 18, 2021

    A bizarre foreign policy

    The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior visiting research fellow at the National University of...

  • August 14, 2021

    A real look at US-India relations

    The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior visiting research fellow at the National University of...

  • July 28, 2021

    Afghanistan policy: testing times

    Sadly, Afghanistan for a good part of its history has been at war with itself. Foreign powers have sometimes provoked these wars and sometimes...

  • July 05, 2021

    Making sense of US-China tensions

    Analogies are nearly always imperfect and often dangerous – especially historical ones. Tensions between the US and China are real but comparison...

  • December 24, 2020

    Stalemate continues

    With the ‘India Chronicles’ and revelations by Foreign Minister Qureshi that New Delhi could be planning a surgical strike, India-Pakistan...