We often forget that a significant proportion of refugees who now knock on the door of Europe are Afghans. Between January and December 2015, they were 200,000 to seek asylum in one of the EU countries. 6 times more than in 2014.…
2016 began with a dangerous rekindling of the Cold War that has existed for some time between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Given that this tension between the two states is in part fuelling the intensity of the wars in Yemen and Syria,…
Relatively little is being said about it in the French media because Afghanistan has been forgotten due to the crisis in Syria, and because Westerners are not, this time, on the frontline, but the inter-Afghan peace process is striving, with difficulty, to…
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It is difficult to imagine a case where Europeans, Americans and Russians can so easily agree on Afghanistan. At least as much, if not more, than the West, the Kremlin is concerned about the weakness of the Afghan state and the terrorist…
China's Economic Engagement in the Middle East
China’s President Xi Jinping last month visited key states of the Middle East. During meeting with King Salman, President Xi agreed on closer strategic cooperation between Riyadh and Beijing. In Cairo, Xi and Egypt’s President signed…
Since the middle of the second half of the 20th century, the world has been witnessing a knowledge revolution where creation, diffusion and utilisation of knowledge — especially higher and technical — has gained prominence while impacting all spheres of human activity…
The Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) has published a book titled “Building Knowledge-Based Economy in Pakistan: Learning from Best Practices.”
The book is available at IPRI office.
To get a copy of this book, you may…
انسان دوست حلقوں نے رائے ظاہر کی ہے کہ یوں تو دنیا کے سبھی ملکوں میں انسانی حقوق کی پا مالیوں کا سلسلہ کسی نہ کسی طور جاری ہے اور کسی بھی ملک کی صورتحال کو مثالی قرار دینا غالباً ممکن نہیں…
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…