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A national compact for 2025

THE new year starts with the country facing multiple challenges that need to be met in a politically calm environment. The complex nature of overlapping challenges and the fact that…

National security policy needs revisit

This is the second of a two-part series detailing the 2020 National Security Policy’s (NSP) ill-advised focus on economic diplomacy – ill-advised as the world moves from unipolarity to multipolairty.…

The policies will continue

With Mr Trump’s election as US president, there is one big question right now about democracy and rule of law worldwide. Will they weaken? At first glance, the answer is…

Trump’s economic nationalism

Right-wing populist Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 US presidential election is expected to fuel a resurgence of economic nationalism in the US. The 21st century has witnessed a…

We need sensible policies

In March 2001, as federal minister of science and technology, I approached then-president Musharraf with three proposals. The first was to extend the continental shelf of Pakistan from its limits…

The national fiscal pact

A new important piece in the legal domain of Pakistan’s public finance management system is the National Fiscal Pact (NFP), which reportedly all four provinces have now signed onto. The…

Two candidates, two foreign policies

The United States of America is in a tight presidential election. And tight elections are usually hard to predict. Yet one outcome is evident. Whoever wins, the country will remain…

India and transnational terrorism

The Indian government and Indian media have sharply reacted to allegations made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his foreign minister, and the Canadian police chief. The allegations are that…

For nationalisation

THE ‘caretaker’ government (read: the security establishment and its lackeys) has embarked on yet another ideological offensive about the incredible benefits of privatisation under the guise of the Special Invest­ment…

Afghan refugees & international law

AFGHAN refugees came to Pakistan more than four decades ago and since then Pakistan has played the role of an admirable host in every possible way. However, before further continuing…