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Opposition quiz Pak govt on US claims of airspace use for Afghan ops ANI | Updated: May 25, 2021 01:15 IST Islamabad [Pakistan], May 25 (ANI): A few days after a Pentagon official said that Pakistan had allowed the US military to use the country's airspace to support its operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan's opposition on Monday asked Imran Khan government to explain to National Assembly about the remark made by US official on the "overflight" support. This issue came to light after David F. Helvey, Assistant Secretary of Defence for Indo-Pacific Affairs,...

Terms for peace April 2, 2021 As Pakistan lurches through its worst wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, talk of peace with India fuels a fresh round of speculation about prospects and obstacles in the path ahead. Peace, of course, is understood to be a broad public good in Pakistan among political and policy groups that take a long view of the region, especially given the high cost of conflict for two nuclear neighbours that have been at war four times since 1948, and at strategic loggerheads most of our postcolonial history. The first problem is that this view is not necessarily reflected beyon...

Recalibration of mutual interests The writer is a public policy analyst based in Lahore and be reached at [email protected] The American commitment to the Afghan war during president Obama’s administration rested on domestic politics. When the war was popular back home, he supported it, and when it became unpopular, he pushed for it to end. Thus, the Americans withdrew without any concern for the fate of Afghanistan or the region. According to political scientist Vali Nasr, “America has not won this war on the battlefield, nor has the country ended it at the negotiating table. America i...

Each mile of buried power lines. >> oh, my goodness. >> yeah, compared to 800,000 for a mile of above ground lines. so, it's, like, quite a price difference and infrastructure is expensive in the u.s. period, but it's very expensive if you bury it. the second question is, could we be governing the utilities better? should the regulators be exercising more power? should they be forcing money to come -- pg&e is a private utility. so should they be forcing, you know, shareholders to be spending more money on preparation, adaptation? they -- i think they could be certainly more money needs to be s...