Media and international conflicts
As media has taken a centre stage, all national and global stakeholders are in a fierce competition to get maximum space to send their messages across. National and multinational corporations,…
Rethinking international diplomacy
Pakistan is facing an economic crunch. Many analysts used the world ICU to describe the state of economy when the new government took over. A patient in an intensive care…
HEC to partner with international bodies for research: Banuri
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) accorded high importance to engagement with the international world for academic and research activities as it will help develop the higher education sector. This was…
Reworking relations
Pakistan and the US won the Afghan conflict and the cold war in 1989 and 1991, respectively. But 27 years later, Islamabad and Washington are on the brink of losing…
Reorienting US-Pak relations
US President Trump seems to have decided to pressurise Pakistan into doing ‘more’ against certain terrorist and militant groups that are reportedly based in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Like its predecessor,…
Understanding the US-India relationship
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington only reinforces the deeper bilateral relationship between the world’s two largest democracies and economies, with the US standing number one with an…
Sale of goods in international law
Where parties to sale of goods are located in different countries, their mutual relationship will be determined by the contract of sale. Such contracts become subject to interpretation by different…
Cross jurisdiction disputes in international arbitration
A contract leads to corporate relationships out of which typical disputes arise quite often. It is evident that with the advent of globalisation the outreach of businesses has expanded and…
Pak-US relations in the Trump era
The most important single event in the Pakistan-US relationship in the last decade was the November 26, 2011 slaughter of over two dozen Pakistani soldiers on the border with Afghanistan…
Overcoming regional and international isolation
Two important meetings in Islamabad are quite crucial for us to possibly get out of both regional and international isolation – if we make the right policy decisions. These are:…
