India’s Failed Strategy in Kashmir: CSS Pakistan Affairs Guns have slipped back into holsters and diplomats behind their desks; the Samjhauta or “Concord” Express has resumed its reassuring bi-weekly chug connecting Lahore Junction and Old Delhi Station. Relations between India and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Is Indus Water Treaty being Violated by India? CSS Pakistan Affairs The government of Pakistan has asked the World Bank for a meeting in Washington, DC for talks on the country’s ongoing water dispute with India. This latest demand is …
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 …
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 …