While Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi share Nobel Peace prize for the year, their countries are engaged in a sort of ‘small-scale war’ in the UN acknowledged disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Hopefully, the two laureates would put together…
Pakistan-India- US Relations
Col (R) Muhammad Hanif
Since 1947 Pakistan--India relations are marred by outstanding bilateral issues including the Kashmir dispute which are yet to be resolved. After Shimla Agreement signed in 1972 both countries have not been able to address these…
Introduction
“Many of the wars of the 20th century were about oil, but wars of the 21st century will be over water”, said Dr Isamil Serageldin, former Vice President of the World Bank. Water is surpassing oil as the world’s scarcest…
The well wishers of Pakistan-India relations were expecting that the recent exchanges of fire on the LOC and the verbal exchanges through media would be curbed during Foreign Secretary level talks scheduled in Islamabad on 25th August, 2014. All these expectations were…
Recent decision of the Indian government to ask United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to vacate its office in New Delhi has evoked severe criticism. “Closing down the UN observers’ office in New Delhi is a glaring example…
سبھی جانتے ہیں کہ مقبوضہ کشمیر میں بھارتی ریاستی دہشتگردی جاری ہے۔اسی پس منظر میں ۱۹ جولائی کو ہرسال دنیا بھر کے کشمیری اور تمام انسان دوست حلقے\"یوم الحاقِ پاکستان\"کے طورپرمناتے ہیں۔ کیونکہ ۱۹۴۷ میں اسی روز کشمیر کے سبھی طبقات کی…
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…
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,…
Post Event Report
Conference on “Revisiting Kashmir Policy”
One day Conference on ‘Revisiting Kashmir Policy’ was organized by Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) on January 30, 2014. Following are the proceedings of the conference.
Ambassador Sohail Ameen, President IPRI, in his welcome…
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…