Why Talking to the Taliban Is the Right Move CSS Current Affairs In 2012, while I was serving as senior adviser to the State Department special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, I met in Istanbul with a group of Iranian …
The Future of Democracy in South Asia Why Citizens Must Stay Vigilant (CSS Pakistan Affairs) On November 14, a fight broke out in the Sri Lankan Parliament. When the Speaker tried to call a vote, a group of MPs heckled him and rushed the …
Why the India-Pakistan Crisis Isn’t Likely to Turn Nuclear (CSS Pakistan Affairs) In May 1999, an Indian military patrol stumbled on several groups of Pakistani soldiers who had set up posts in Kargil, in the Indian-controlled section of the disputed …
A comprehensive analysis on War in Afghanistan- CSS Current Affairs Afghanistan has stayed less a homogenous state and more a montage of feuding ethnicities and warring tribes bound by strings of self-interest and foreign subservience. (CSS Current Affairs) Having written …
Will Sino-US Relations Drive Pak-US Relations? CSS International Relations A Brief History Since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, it has had a mixed relationship with the United States, encompassing several ups and downs over the decades. Pakistan came into being as …
Addition of Security Component to BRI – CSS Current Affairs China appears to be shifting gears in its multi-billion dollar Belt and Road initiative (BRI). Long projected as driven by economics and the benefit of infrastructure linkages, China appears to …
Pashtoon Tahafuz Movement: A rights movement or a new regional agenda Ahmed Khan, (not his original name) waits in his car behind a long line of other vehicles, for his turn to be checked. He can spot army soldiers with …
Is Karl Marx more relevant today? CSS General Knowledge The other day I stood at the grave of Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery in north London, wondering if he has anything say to us today, 200 years after his birth, …
Economic Survey Report for 17-18: CSS Pakistan Affairs The Finance Ministry of Pakistan has launched the Pakistan Economic Survey 2017-18, which claims that Pakistan has made great strides in reducing its macroeconomic vulnerability in the recent years and, achieved the …
Pakistan and India must follow North and South Korea: CSS General Knowledge Dressed in a black safari suit, The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un garnered media spotlight as he detached from his fellows and walked, with his traditional grace, to …