Self-serving priorities
While our politicians protect their personal interests they show zero concern for even limiting the economy's slowdown, let alone reversing it, as portrayed by the ongoing slide in exports, inward…
Sustainable development
Asia and the Pacific are recognised for their leadership in global output, trade and development. The region has a new opportunity to lead on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
The death of classical music
Ustad Fateh Ali Khan of the Patiala gharana died on Jan 4. Classical music in Pakistan died earlier. Nothing epitomises that more than the headline on a leading news website:…
Pakistan’s strategic ally versus US?
China, there is almost a countrywide consensus in Pakistan, is an all weather friend while we continue to try to sustain an increasingly fractious transactional relationship with the United States.…
Chabahar port
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Iranian President Hasan Rouhani met last Monday in Tehran to sign an agreement to kick-start the development of Chabahar port…
Will the US be Trump-ed?
A recent Pew Research Center (PEW) survey finds the American people divided and uncertain, having mixed views about how assertive a role the US should play internationally. With sharp differences…
Political battling vs national interests
This trend is an about-turn, though not by the US, and proves how in the past the US forced European countries to pursue fundamentally wrong strategies. While it proves yet…
Realignments
Geo-political and economic dynamics are undergoing a major transformation-perhaps the most dramatic one since the end of the World War II which witnessed the emergence of United States of America…
FTAs: Help or hindrance?
With the single-minded national focus on the live discussions going on all through last week in the media over the on-going process of change of guard at the General Headquarters…
How Iran kept flying under sanctions
In December 2012, aircraft trader James Kim received a letter from a company based in Cyprus offering to buy four jetliners. It was brief and to the point. The hitherto…
