Tag: Foreign policy

On the Envoys Conference

What was missed out? Never was a meeting of Pakistani Ambassadors, an otherwise routine affair, given so much publicity as the one held earlier this...

Not without an apology

How to bring relations back on track? In the 10-year US-led ‘war on terror’ there has been repeated criticism in Pakistan about its objectives and...

Nato attacks

One incident; many perspectives Over the past two weeks, the sizeable community of analysts in this country has been grappling with the question as to...

We kiss and we make up!

The bad Pak-US romance The US is here in Afghanistan till at least 2014. If (for the sake of argument) Pakistan’s blocking of the NATO...

Who played a double game?

Recently, a crispy article ‘Calling Pakistan’s boycott bluff’ by Jennifer Rowland appeared in the Foreign Policy magazine, a piece holding intruded perceptions. To Jennifer...

Rumour mill overdrive

US birdies all around The readers will recall that last week I mentioned an analyst Spengler’s article in connection with American plans for the region...

The climax and the casualty

Something had to give On the surface, Memogate came as much a surprise to the government of Pakistan as that of the US. However, the...