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 …
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 …
An Alternative to Two-State Solution of Palestine Issue- CSS General Knowledge A.B. Yehoshua, one of Israel’s staunchest fighters for the two-state solution, lays out a proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian partnership On the third day of the Six-Day War, when the …
Is Pakistan loosing battle for its soul? CSS Pakistan Affairs This story perhaps describes best what’s happening in Pakistan today A grandfather tells his grandson there are two wolves inside us, always at war with each other. One is a …
Seven Decades of Pakistan- CSS Pakistan Affairs August 14, 2017, marked the 70th independence anniversary of Pakistan. The seven decades of its existence can be compared to a roller-coaster ride. The country is considered to be an epitome of unpredictability, …
Pakistan’s Critical role in New Cold War- CSS Current Affairs Afghanistan, no doubt, was what brought Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif to Moscow on a ‘working visit’ on February 20. This was Asif’s second meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov …