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 …
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 …
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 …
Partition of India: Gandhi’s Role – CSS Pakistan Affairs When the All-India Muslim League was established in Dhaka in 1906 by leading Muslim figures from around the country, India had just begun to slowly transition to self-rule from the British Raj. From …
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, …
Highlights of Economic Survey of Pakistan 2017-18 Following are the highlights of the Pakistan Economic Survey for the year 2017-18 unveiled by Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance Miftah Ismail here on Thursday. – The country’s Gross Domestic Product recorded 13-year …
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 …
Asian Majorities acting like Insecure Minorities- CSS Pakistan Affairs IT IS an unlikely weapon: a scuffed but sturdy Samsonite briefcase, sitting on a desk in a big house in a spacious garden in a prosperous suburb of Colombo, the capital …