Pak Affairs

The story of an intense competition to shape the future of Asia. Pakistan and Iran have cordial and fraternal bilateral relations besides being the neighbours. Both countries have embarked on ambitious plans to establish economic, trade and transport contacts with Afghanistan, Central Asian states and beyond, to create leverage in the region. Construction of Gwadar Port was necessitated due to …

If there are any two nations with enriched common interests overriding the gruesome perpetuated animosity cluster, those are Pakistan and India. What went wrong with these poverty-stricken emerging nations that they could not cleanse glued hatred of the past and fear of the unknown future? The problem rests with breaking from the past and opening up new avenues for creative …

AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROTECTION OF PAKISTAN ORDINANCE AND THE INVESTIGATION FOR FAIR TRIAL ACT The Investigation for Fair Trial Act, 2013 The Investigation for Fair Trial Act, 2013 was formally assented to by the President of Pakistan on 20th February, 2013 after its approval from the National Assembly and the Senate of Pakistan. The law is conceptually progressive as …

The third Nuclear Security Summit was held on March 24-25, 2014, at The Hague, Netherlands, whereby 53 countries showed their commitment to effectively control illegal proliferation of nuclear and radioactive materials. This summit was in line with the previous two held in Washington DC (2010), and Seoul (2012) to safeguard the world against nuclear terrorism. Let’s analyse the objectives of …

Foreign policy of a nation is always predicated on where you want to go as a sovereign and independent state. This is the basic determinant of a country’s foreign policy. In our case, at the time of our independence, like Alice in Wonderland, we did not know which way to go and this turned out to be the first dilemma …

There is a crucial connection between means and ends in the projection of global influence. For instance, the Suez Canal, which opened in 1869, acted as a tool of empire for the great powers of the nineteenth century. The building of a canal through the Sinai Peninsula not only made trade and empire in Asia faster by avoiding the Cape …

An epitome of ineptness, apathy and soullessness. ‘The Thar TragedyIn a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.’ This is ineptness and apathy at its height. It is necessary to understand that the children who died in Thar did not perish just because of the …

Civil Service is primarily a body of professional administrators as opposed to politicians. They are permanent and skilled, and are paid for their services. The term does not include defence personnel, politicians, judiciary or those who work in an honorary capacity. The history of civil service can be traced back to ancient China, Egypt and, in our context, the British …

Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Finance, Ishaq Dar, at a news conference, proudly announced that the ‘difficult period’ for the economy was over and that the prices of all items ‘from onions to the dollar’ has declined which would have a major positive impact on the domestic rate of inflation. The indicator used to express his optimism was the declining greenback. …

Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali while presenting ‘though half-baked’ Pakistan’s first-ever ‘National Security Policy’ (NSP) in National Assembly on February 26, vowed to inanimate the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) and to establish a National Intelligence Directorate (NID) under its umbrella to counter the menace of terrorism and militancy. The PM approved the establishment of NID ‘having the coordination …