Implications of Iran’s N-deal
BY all accounts, a “framework” agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme is likely to be concluded by end-March between Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, UK and US). A…
Damage control
Last Wednesday, Nawaz Sharif sent Shahbaz as his special envoy to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to defuse the crisis in Pakistan-Saudi relations arising from Islamabad’s inability to join the…
Rigging charges carry no truth
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has prepared a detailed fact-finding report against allegations levelled against it regarding anomalies in the general elections of 2013. The report will be…
Iran will need to spend most of any post-sanctions windfall at home
Iranians will demand their government spend a windfall from the lifting of economic sanctions on improving the quality of life at home, limiting the degree to which a future nuclear…
Economic outlook
After reaching a peak in 2007 when Pakistan earned the distinction of being one of fastest growing emerging economies the last seven years recorded a downward trend for country's economy,…
What are our priorities?
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) report on Pakistan's economy after its seventh review under the ongoing EFF arrangement is optimistic about macroeconomic stabilisation being well under way, and the threat…
Our nuclear trajectory
Nuclear weapons are generally believed to be ‘weapons of deterrence’ rather than ‘weapons of war’. However, despite the fact that many strategic experts uphold this view, the first use of…
Economic corridor and a worried India
In a remarkable demonstration of national unity by all political parties, at the all party conference last week , it was unanimously decided a go ahead with the western alignment…
Shrouded in secrecy, one of Africa’s biggest land deals stalls
Malian farmer Balima Coulibaly and his fellow villagers watched with dread as 100,000 hectares of fertile land they have farmed for generations were handed to Libyan investors with no discussion…
Governance of information security
Information security relates to all aspects of information, that is, spoken, written, printed and electronic or any other medium, including the information handling which has been created, viewed, transported, stored…
