Tag: Relations

Inefficient infrastructure, militaristic apprehensions impeding Indo-Pak ties: Dr. Kumar

India-Pakistan relations are much bigger than the trade and commerce between the two neighbouring country, but inefficient infrastructure and militaristic concerns on both sides...

Signs of a thaw

About time too The over two month long tension between Pakistan and the US seems to be easing now. Domestic and American media reports indicate...

The Afghanistan factor

Last year was terrible for Pak-US relations which are in a state of free fall since a US contractor, Raymond Davis, gunned down two...

Gilani hits back at ‘conspirators’

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani hit back on Wednesday at the ‘conspirators’ who took the memogate controversy to the Supreme Court, saying an incumbent...

‘Interests matter most in int’l relations’

Former foreign minister and ambassador Abdul Sattar has said that ‘interests’ are permanent while ‘friendship’ is not so in the relations between states. Delivering his...

Pakistan-US relations heading towards thaw

Ice seems to have started melting between the United States and Pakistan, with positive signals coming from both sides suggesting that their relations would...

Establish the baseline

Use the legal to underpin other responses Pakistan is out of the Bonn conference. Shamsi airbase is to be vacated. NATO supply lines have been...

The devil we know…

In recent years, the Pak-US relationship has never been an easy one. The bonhomie that the brass of both countries displayed in public only...

Pakistan’s sovereignty

Once again, the NATO showed hooliganism to Pakistan. Its two helicopters on Saturday opened fired on Pak-Afghan border, claiming 26 Pakistani soldiers’ lives and...

Civil-military relations

Who pulls the levers? Like Prime Minister Gilani, Hina Rabbani Khar has also confirmed that a high level committee would soon start investigating the Memogate...

Indo-Pak relations

Pakistan-India relations have always been the victim of oscillations between short-lived periods of euphoria and raised expectations followed by long intervals marked by disappointment,...

Sino-Pak Relations

To counter the U.S domination in the region, it is important that we continue to strengthen our bond with China. And, of course the...

The superpower embrace

In my article last week, I had tried to draw a distinction between the previous partnerships between Pakistan and the US and the one...

Deteriorating US-Pak relations cast shadow over kse

The continuing global crisis and stern messages from US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton overshadowed the impressive corporate results. The exceptional results of POL...

Experts hint at improved Pak-US relations post Hillary visit

With the deadlock still persisting, tension between the US and Pakistan would certainly reduce after the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,...

Pakistan keen to take India dialogue forward

Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal Thursday called on Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and discussed the issues of bilateral relations. The foreign minister said that...

Abandoned children

Once upon a time a man called America enticed a woman called Pakistan, promising all kinds of things that Lotharios always do. The giddy...