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Ambassador Asif Durrani acknowledges the Pak Government’s shortcomings in handling the Afghanistan situation and underscores a reality check for Islamabad’s foreign policy Pakistan’s Special Representative on Afghanistan, Ambassador Asif Durrani, conceded the grave reality of the Pakistani

As the current Gaza conflict continues to inflict pain and suffering in Gaza and beyond, most world leaders are primarily focused on achieving what they

Bhopinder Singh When Afghan Captain, Hashmatullah Shahidi hit the winning runs against Pakistan in the ongoing Cricket World Cup match, all of Afghanistan erupted in a rare moment of joy and a forgotten sense of achievement. It celebrated its much-deserved success as it always does, with lots of gunfire and raw emotions. As a senior

Through a simple cricket game, Afghanistan demonstrated its indefatigable spirit, resilience, and pride to stand up for itself it has surely won many hearts When Afghan Captain, Hashmatullah Shahidi hit the winning runs against Pakistan in the ongoing Cricket World Cup match, all of Afghanistan

In an article, M M Naravane premises that India does not have ‘strategic depth’ against China, tacitly suggesting that if a country has neither strategic depth nor a friendly neighbour, then it should “create this depth by occupying territories”.

Cyprus has been a bone of contention for a thousand years, and the division of the island, which occupies a strategic position in the Eastern Mediterranean, is an open sore that remains unhealed.

Seemingly, living in denial is a Pakistani specialty, considering the defiant front that it continues to put up in the face of unprecedented socio-economic desperation, societal implosion and a civil-war-like situation when conflated with the reality in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan etc. Even Pakistan‘s ostensible ‘backyard‘ and progeny in the form of Afghan Taliban is up in arms against it, while the sectarian dissonance with a Shi‘ite Iran is a permanent problem

The principal aim of the TTP is to overthrow the existing Pakistani government by violence and establish a theocratic state

The terror groups, once supported by the Pakistan establishment, have become its nemesis, compounding its myriad problems Bhopinder Singh In Pakistan, religion not only offers a collective identity, and sovereign rationality, but this existential underpinning also affords to flirt creatively with religion as a distinct state activity. Such a fixation with religiosity has bred

Bhopinder Singh The socio-economic-security crisis in Pakistan is unprecedented with the official annualized inflation soaring upwards of 35%, and the severe ‘corrective’ measures insisted on by the International Monetary Fund, yet to kick in. Estimated two million jobs have evaporated in just one year. Coming on the back of the Covid pandemic-related misery and