There is a common perception that India and Bangladesh have good cordial relation.
Especially Awami League and its head "Sheikh Haseena Wajid" always present a rosy picture in this regard. But impartial observers do not agree with this idea. They think that it…
The change of government in India will have far-reaching global as well as regional implications. It is too early to speculate whether dynastic politics have become irrelevant in the South Asian political culture but it has been somehow challenged due to bad governance…
Amid hopes and fears, Afghan presidential elections held in the first week of April. The initial results showed Dr. Abdullah, of the three candidates, having a lead in the elections. Though these are not the final results, but Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, former…
On May 26, 2014, Narendra Modi took oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India. Ashish Nandi who interviewed Modi in the 1990s, wrote that “I still remember the cool, measured tone in which he elaborated a theory of cosmic conspiracy against…
National economy suffers from five perennial ills: deficit; debt; black economy; lack of capacity for capital growth and negative effects of population expansion. Budget 2014-15 makes an attempt to mitigate all five, though in varying degrees. Government presented the budget amid rising…
The international conference on “Pakistan-Bangladesh Relations: Managing Irritants and Finding Sustainable Solutions” which was scheduled to be held on 18 June 2014 has been postponed. Fresh dates will be announced later.
The Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), together with the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF), Germany’s Pakistan office in Islamabad, organized a two-day international conference on “Pakistan’s Strategic Environment: Post-2014” at Serena Hotel, Islamabad on 28-29 May 2014.
IPRI invited seven scholars one each from…
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Mr Abdul Basit was summoned to Islamabad to evaluate the impact of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s recent visit to India. Mr Basit had spent a lot of effort in preparing a favourable environment for the summit. However,…
۲۸اور ۲۹مئی کو اسلام آباد میں دو روزہ بین الاقوامی کانفرنس منعقد ہوئی ۔اس کا موضوع ’’پاکستان سٹریٹجک انوائرمنٹ۔۔۔پوسٹ ۲۰۱۴ ) تھا۔یہ کانفرنس ’’اسلام آباد پالیسی ریسرچ انسٹی ٹیوٹ‘‘ اور’’ ایچ ایس ایف ‘‘کے باہمی اشتراک سے ہوئی۔ اسلام آباد پالیسی ریسرچ…
بھارتی وزیرِ اعظم مودی کے حکومت سنبھالنے کے بعد دنیا بھر میں یہ قیاس آرائیاں کی جا رہی ہیں کہ وہ اپنے پڑوسی ممالک خصوصاً پاکستان کے ساتھ کس نوعیت کے تعلقات رکھنا چاہیں گے۔ان قیاس آرائیوں کی وجہ یہ ہے کہ…