Mattis in Asia, fixing Trump-rattled relationships one by one
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spent four days in East Asia trying to keep on the rails key relationships - two friendly, one adversarial - that his boss President Donald…
Time limitation: Introduction to concept of year of discovery for foreign assets
In earlier articles on the matter of 'foreign assets' of Pakistani citizens, which have been written for Business Recorder, this writer discussed the concept of 'time limitation' with reference to…
‘Words and no facts’ so far from foreign investors as Iran votes on Rouhani
Desperate to show off the rewards of his landmark deal to get sanctions lifted from Iran, President Hassan Rouhani has rolled out the red carpet for global investors before he…
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…
On balancing Iran-Saudi relations: A hamletian quandary
If foreign policy of a country is to be gauged by relations with immediate neighbors, Pakistan seems to have not done well so far. Lately, Pakistan faces the challenge how…
Pak-Afghan relations
A cricket match at Headingley Cricket Ground in Leeds. Emotions run high in the supporting crowd. And then we see chairs and bottles being hurled. Security police intervening to manage…
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…
A foreign past
YOU know you belong to the past when a generation of Indians you remember are now dead. “The past is a foreign country,” the novelist L.P. Hartley once observed, “they…
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…
