NEW DELHI: Pakistan has become fertile ground for radicalisation and extremism, and the government’s move to enforce one education policy with a lot of focus on religion, will only deepen sectarian fissures and make it even more difficult to make the country ‘normal’. In this conversation on StratNewsGlobal, Prof. Ayesha Jalal of Tufts University, says […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In our special series, Pakistan: State of the Republic, Shuja Nawaz, Distinguished Fellow, South Asia Centre, Atlantic Council, Author of ‘Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within’ and ‘The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter U.S. Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Shuja […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In this, the first in our series on Pakistan featuring Pakistani voices, we look at democracy, the political parties and how both remain in thrall to the army. Over 70 years since its founding, Pakistan remains a country where the men in uniform dominate every aspect of life, appropriating the lion’s share of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As expected, the elections to the POK legislative assembly saw Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Pakistan win 25 of the 45 seats at stake (8 more seats are nominated). The PPP won 11 seats and the PML(N) 6. Farooq Haider of the PML(N), who was ‘prime minister’ until now, claimed that the entire election exercise “was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A bitter exchange between Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Connectivity Conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, underscored the difficulties of finding peace in that troubled country. Ghani warned that “10,000 jihadi fighters had come from Islamabad and other places to fight in Afghanistan last month.” He added that […]Read More
NEW DELHI: No more back channel talks with India, with that broadside, Pakistan’s national security adviser Moeed Yusuf appears to have dumped the gains from the recent thaw with India. Most notably, he has put into question the ceasefire on the Line of Control now a little over four months old. In this conversation on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan may continue to agitate about the ‘Kashmir issue’ but what is often overlooked is that key Pakistani figures have themselves disputed their claim on Kashmir. As former ambassador Dinkar P Srivastava points out in his recent book, Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control Islamabad’s uneasiness about Kashmir goes […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Despite statements from Qatari officials, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at a press conference has flat-out denied any back-channel talks are taking place. This comes a day after India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval proposed an action plan against Pakistan-based terrorist groups LeT and JeM at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting of […]Read More
New Delhi: Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan praised India, or more specifically Indian missions, for doing their job better than their Pakistani counterparts. In a virtual address to Pakistan’s envoys, the Pakistani PM recalled his own experience as an overseas Pakistani in the ‘80s and ‘90s and stated that the “attitude” of certain ambassadors was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: After a 10-hour vigil in March this year, British warship HMS Montrose that was on patrol in the Arabian Sea intercepted a dhow off Oman, leading to recovery of nearly three tonnes of heroin, crystal methamphetamine and hashish. The frigate had reported two back-to-back seizures in mid-February, confiscating a range of illegal narcotics […]Read More
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