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CPEC — Beginning of a new era

BY Ali Sukhanvar Propaganda and disinformation  It is also a fact that for the last many years Indian agents are trying their best to misguide the people of Balochistan that the government of Pakistan is exploiting their natural resources  The truth is the truth though most of the time it is bitter but there must be a clear difference between …

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THE STRONGMAN PROBLEM, FROM MODI TO TRUMP

At eight o’clock in the evening on November 8th, India Standard Time, just hours before American voters shocked the world by electing Donald Trump as their next President, Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, went on television to address his country’s more than a billion citizens. At midnight, Modi proclaimed, all of India’s five-hundred-rupee and thousand-rupee notes, worth about …

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Review of 7th NFC Award

The 7th NFC Award was signed by its members on the 30th of December, 2009. It became effective in 2010-11 after the Presidential Order No. 5 of 2010, during the tenure of the last PPP government. Initially, the Award was valid for a period of five years up to 2014-15. It has since been extended on an ad hoc basis …

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U.S. – Russia Relations in 2017

The direction of U.S.-Russian relations during the early part of the Trump administration will depend on how (and if) the new President is willing to moderate the positions he laid out during the campaign. If past is prelude, it is likely President Trump’s Russia policies will become somewhat more moderate (meaning less favorable to Russia) than his stump rhetoric. This …

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Fact Sheet: the Indus Waters Treaty 1960 and the World Bank

Origins of the Treaty: The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 after nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan with the help of the World Bank, which is also a signatory. The negotiations were the initiative of former World Bank President Eugene Black. Seen as one of the most successful international treaties, it has survived frequent tensions, including …

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Why Kashmir is at the heart of Indus Waters Treaty dispute

Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty Water remained, however, a tendentious issue in relation to Kashmir. When Nehru visited Karachi in September 1960 to sign the Indus Waters Treaty with Ayub Khan, the two leaders also held lengthy discussions about other questions. According to Indian diplomatic reports, the atmosphere of the talks was “informal and friendly”. Discussions ranged over travel …

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U.S., Russia: A History of Containment

One of the United States’ greatest geopolitical imperatives is to prevent the rise of regional hegemons with the ability to challenge it. Russia’s historical dominance of Eurasia, the Soviet Union’s rise as a superpower after World War II and its resulting political, economic and military rivalry with the United States have long made Russia a target of Washington’s actions abroad. …

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How To Salvage U.S.-Russia Relations: One Expert’s Take

For all of Trump’s praise for Putin during the election campaign, there is still no coherent line on how the incoming Republican administration plans to deal with Russia.  Rex Tillerson, Trump’s pick to head the State Department, said last week that Russia “poses a danger” to the U.S.  Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, James Mattis, went further, naming Russia …

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Globalization Is the Way Forward

This year’s World Economic Forum is celebrated as an exclusive gathering of the world’s politicians, business moguls and opinion leaders.  They were assembled to share their ideas for a better global economy. Conferences like these are a talking shop where mindsets are influenced, policies refined, promises made, deals agreed and opportunities realised.  The venue for this important conference is Davos, …

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