July 14, 2015 marked a historic day that witnessed the signing of a landmark deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme. The breakthrough was reached after 20 months of talks between Tehran and the P5+1 states – U.S., Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany. The breakthrough has been welcomed widely, but Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …
Guest Lecturer: Hartmut Elsenhans, a German Professor at Area Study Centre, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Date and venue: April 15, 2014, IPRI Conference Hall Introduction Extremist political movements including Islamic political movements are irreversible and not a new phenomenon. It dates back to early 19th century when trends were open to fascism and to Christian …
Islamabad should introspect as to who advised distancing from Riyadh and Abu Dhabi; and hold them accountable Saudi Arabia and Pakistan can never afford to be at odds with each other. This is the balance-sheet of their geoeconomics and fraternity. Irrespective of the fact that they differ on numerous policy wavelengths in the regional and …
Saudi Arabia and UAE are Pakistan’s wings in Midleast Read More »
The killing of more than 250 people in Easter bombings in Sri Lanka speaks about the growing threat of transnational terrorism. Initially, Sri Lankan government held the National Thowheed Jamath (NJT) responsible for the attacks. But as events followed, it was claimed that the local group (who pledged allegiance to the Caliphate) has the support …
Keynote: H.E Jauhar Saleem, Pakistan Ambassador to Italy From CE.S.I, Rome Andrea Margelletti Chairman of Ce.S.I. – Centre for International Studies. Prof. Margelletti has been Strategic Advisor to the Italian Minister of Defense from March 2012 to May 2018. Since 2017 his support to the Italian Minister of Defense has been focused on the NATO …
IPRI Webinars Series IPRI-CE.S.I: “Assessing Current Situation in Afghanistan” Read More »
Two decades of brinkmanship and a fallacious geopolitical strategy in Afghanistan have taught the United States one simple lesson; never police beyond its frontiers. But it would have been better if Washington had realised this bitter truth after its fiascos in Iraq, and in Iran too before the 1979 revolution. Military interventions are loathed in …
The least that Ebrahim Raisi should do is to curtail the powers of the unelected strata, reform the financial sector, and open up the great Persian civilisation to the outside world Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi has a much tougher task than his predecessors, as he has assumed office at a crisscrossed time of regional …
Iranians are tired of status quo – they deserve change Read More »
Afghanistan sits at the crossroads of all energy, trade and transit corridors in an era of geo-economics Afghans are witnessing a déjà vu. History is repeating itself. The country is once again exploding, and this time despite a relatively peaceful change of guard. The Taliban, nonetheless, are in a fix, as centrifugal forces are posing them …
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