January 2012

The foreign policy of the present government does have internal political implications. The pro-establishment right wings in Pakistan, both in media and the political parties, have taken upon them to challenge every initiative the PPP government has taken so far. They have agitated PPP’s inherited alliance in war on terror and vehemently opposed its pursuits and gestures towards India. Prime …

Pakistan should have a vision of what it would like to achieve from other nations before reciprocating market access to them. Trade relations, like all other relations, are friend and foe oriented and are glued with the broader national interests of the country. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The …

‘It is not the wealth of a nation that builds roads, but the roads, that build the wealth of a nation.’ (John F. Kennedy) In the history of civilizations, each great power had made progress and successfully prolonged and strengthened their rule to the benefit of their subjects. Roman, British, Muslim Empires of Umayyad and Abbasid and in subcontinent Mughal …

No sane mind can deny this fact that for the stability, prosperity and development, establishment of long-lasting peace in the region, normalization between India and Pakistan is indispensable. The contested issues between both countries have led them to engage in an arms race to subdue each other, meet security dilemmas and to maintain deterrent capabilities. With an utter neglect towards …

Pakistan opted to evolve working relationship with some sections of the Afghan society and in order to achieve that, Pakistan did some maneuvers which were termed by some as Strategic Depth. When those maneuvers became militarized, then Pakistan received high degree of condemnation both at home and internationally, though Pakistan kept on denying it officially. General kiyani’s remarks that Pakistan …

At School of Political and International Relations, Quaid-I-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad. Under the auspices of Jahangir’s World Times (JWT) a Discussion Forum was organized at the School of Politics & International Relations in QAU, Islamabad. The discussion was chaired by Dr. Lubna Abid Ali the chairperson of the School of Politics & International Relations while Dr. Mehmood-ul-Hassan Butt, director student …

Ayaz Wazir Former Ambassador and Analyst Jahangir’s World Times: What are Pakistan’s long term and short term interests in Afghanistan and how Pakistan is pursuing these interests? Ayaz Wazir: Well, Pakistan’s interests are very deep in Afghanistan. We have the same tribes divided between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Both of us have strong bonds of relationship but at times some hiccups …

Masood Ahmad Khan Pak Ambassador to China China has adopted a policy of peaceful engagement with her neighbours for the last 30 years. This policy has helped China in its economic development. But the Chinese have kept one thing clear that they have remained firm on their principled stance whether on the question of Taiwan, North China Sea or any …

It is important that Pakistan, as a partner and an ally of US war on terror, is treated with dignity and sovereign equality. The Pak- US relationship will remain on a roller coaster unless the whole spectrum of Gen Musharraf’s written and unwritten arrangements with the US are revisited to draw new ‘terms of engagement’ in keeping with the State’s …

foreign policy makers are the ones who drive media attention towards certain foreign events, and even determine the way those events are being framed (manufacturing consent There is a great discussion about the relationship between media and foreign policy formulation. Many journalists, policy-makers and scholars argue that there really is little doubt that media profoundly affect the foreign policy process. …