Foreign policy tragedy
Politics and governance are as poles apart as cricket and politics. Like cricket, which cannot be mastered without hard practice and vast experience, politics too needs hard struggle and practical…
Foreign policy and economic challenges
Foreign relations and the state of the economy have become inextricably linked in Pakistan due to the PML-N administration's overarching objective to borrow from external sources to meet its budgetary…
Russia short of foreign policy options if bet on Trump fails
Russia long saw Donald Trump as the wild card in its strategy to improve relations with the United States. But 14 months after he became US president, Moscow is close…
Sanctions: failure of foreign policy
President Donald Trump’s meeting with North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, on June 30 may turn out to be more than just another publicity stunt similar to the failed…
Foreign policy agenda 2019
UNLIKE its daunting domestic objectives, Pakistan’s external agenda, though challenging, is fairly clear. And, although overstretched, Islamabad has the capacity in its Foreign Service and the ‘security establishment’ to address…
No space for foreign policy
Neither the election campaigns nor the manifestos of major political parties have mentioned anything concrete about the country’s foreign policy. The PML-N was bitten badly for eating from that tree…
Is foreign policy possible?
The writer is a former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan. The comprehensively corrupt and heartless governance of the recent…
Putting the foreign policy in order
A little more than a year ago, while addressing the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, President Xi termed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)…
Reviewing foreign policy
As the newly elected government assumes the reins of power, it is an appropriate moment to review our foreign policy, covering both its making and its execution. Some pointers regarding…
Reviewing foreign policy
We have spent far too long establishing our ‘influence’ in the unfortunate country that is Afghanistan; the country has been suffering from civil war conditions for decades. Our policy towards…
