The US Defence Intelligence Agency Director Lieutenant General Vincent R Stewart has said in his recent testimony to the US Senate Armed Services Committee that Pakistan’s military operation Zarb-e-Azb and Karachi operation have been successful in reducing violence in Pakistan: “Counter-insurgency operations…
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…
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…
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.
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Vladimir Putin has been Russia's dominant political figure since 2000 and Russia under him is reasserting its…
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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…
The recently held Afghan peace talks, in which senior officials from the Afghan government, Pakistan, China and the US participated called for restoration of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Whether, the talks would yield positive result or like…
Despite mixed signals from India, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif continues to follow a single track approach towards India. This is raising many raising many eye brows as to whether he is confronting failure of Indian approach towards Pakistan or reinforcing failure of…
THERE are three main challenges which Pakistan is facing during Operation Zarb-e-Azb: a) the militants who have survived the Operation Zarb-e-Azb and successfully escaped into Afghanistan. Resultantly, they are reorganising themselves with the funding of RAW and planning to re-launch their offence…