Pakistan and Qatar have signed a worth $16 billion deal of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) for a period of 15 years. Pakistan has been suffering through a severe energy crisis and the import of LNG from Qatar would be a positive step…
IPRI Newsletter for the Month of January 2016 has been issued.
For details, visit: IPRI Newsletter January 2016
IPRI One-day Conference
3 March 2016
بیرونی دنیا میں یوں تو اس بات کا پراپیگنڈہ کیا جاتا ہے کہ پاکستان میں تعلیمی شعبہ پر مذہبی انتہا پسند قابض ہیں مگر اس ضمن میں بھارت کی صورتحال تب عیاں ہوئی جب نیو یارک ٹائمز نے اپنی ستائیس جنوری کی…

While there in enough of attraction for the international players for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the uphill task has been to save it from the internal and external spoilers. Credit goes to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, so far he has…

President Obama headed to the Capitol to deliver his final State of the Union (SOTU) address on January 12, 2016. It is an American tradition that every year the US President addresses the nation about the existing state of affairs of the…

New Year began gloomily for Pakistan. Just when we thought that we had turned the corner in our successful fight against terrorism, a spate of terrorist attacks throughout the country shook us rather heavily. We were naïve to assume, that after the…

The Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) organized a review meeting on “Russia’s Revival: Opportunities and Limitations for Pakistan” in IPRI Conference Hall on December 11, 2015.
Introduction
Vladimir Putin has been Russia's dominant political figure since 2000 and Russia under him is reasserting its…

Introduction:
Seven Arab states border the Persian Gulf, namely Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). All Persian Gulf states are monarchies. All these Arab states have significant revenues from petroleum. However, the Gulf region has long…
Way Forward for KSA and Iran - Asiya Mahar
On Jan 02, 2016 Saudi Arabia executed 47 prisoners across the kingdom that were found of being associated with al-Qaeda and for carrying out series of attacks across the kingdom in 2003 and 2004.…