Tag: Pak-US relations

Cooperation is the only way forward With the memo commission rejecting the plea to record the statement of Mansoor Ijaz outside Pakistan and Ijaz refusing...

War outcomes can never be predicted one hundred percent and to make high and mighty claims of a definite victory in Afghanistan is turning...

Time for pragmatism Pak-US relations are too important an issue to be exploited for playing to the gallery. There is no doubt that the Nato...

Ignoring the external context for our internal turmoil In the last few days, a number of scenarios are being discussed in the media that could...

And increasingly so... Unwise foreign policy decisions have led to a situation where Pakistan’s relations with the US are all time low and the country...

Talking the walk 2012 opened on a hopeful note for the Af-Pak region leaving behind a difficult year punctuated by serious turmoil in Afghanistan and...

We’re not their only contact reference Is the centrality that Pakistan occupied in the ‘Great Endgame’ in Afghanistan on the wane? If one recalls the...

Ending the impasse benefits the both It is in the best interest of both the US and Pakistan to restore their relations which hit the...

"The fault is not in our stars" Times present are acute uncertainty. Pakistan is certainly in trouble, but the world is in even more trouble....

Things have to change The latest standoff between the United States and Pakistan was explosive. In recent history, hardly have we seen such damage being...

It’s in our own backyard "We are going to cut these soldiers into pieces one by one, and we will send these pieces to their...

The civilians at odds with the military On the face of it, the army doesn’t have to do a coup to topple this government. All...

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...

Hushed and unrushed You know what? The monkey returned. You remember the beautiful monkey I talked about last week and suggested that he should be...

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...

Discretion is the better part of valour Thank goodness the nationwide frenzy stirred by our super-patriotic but lazy anchors, members of establishment and others on...

On Pak-US relations While the proposals formulated at the ambassadors’ conference have yet to be taken to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security and then...