Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – II )
In a talk at the National Defence College, Kissinger likened strategy to a chess game in which each player seeks to control the maximum number of squares on the chess…
India’s diplomatic success
“The Quartet will be a model for those who desire peace and prosperity and will provide evidence of the great opportunities lost through conflicts and squandered by blind extremism at…
Israel escalation puts new Gulf partners in diplomatic bind
The deadly escalation between Israel and the Palestinians has embarrassed Gulf states which forged ties with the Jewish state and put a strain on their Abraham Accords that were billed…
China’s leadership transition – I
China's National People's Congress (NPC) on March 5, 2018 approved President Xi Jinping's second five-year term in office. Earlier Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's historic reforms, had two five-year…
Pakistan’s diplomatic offensive
Whether one agrees with PM Imran Khan’s political philosophy or not, one just cannot disagree with what he said on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) during…
Diplomatic aspirations
On May 28, 1918 the first parliamentary democracy in the Muslim East – the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic – was founded, and July 9th,1919 was the day of the decree of…
On the diplomatic front
An important meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, representing 57 Muslim countries, was held at a time when two nuclear powers, Pakistan and India, were confronting with each other.…
Leadership matters
Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Justice and Development Party has once again won a new five-year term after securing absolute victory in the Turkish presidential elections. Initially due on November…
Saudi Arabia and Iran need Pakistani leadership
For several months, the official line from both civilian and military leaders in Pakistan has been that the country has turned the corner. Loadshedding is down, and might be reduced…
Business Leadership
As former President of Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as former Chairman of SITE Association of Industry and founder of a few bilateral fora, I often assess…
