The change has begun
The PML-N has won the largest number of seats in the National Assembly and will form the next government at the center. It has left its two main rivals, the…
Capital suggestion…Post-election
The most probable post-election permutation is a coalition government. The three overriding factors for the coalition government will be: the IMF, coalition politics and the PPP’s control over the Senate.…
Diplomacy and force
The United States is just beginning to realize some age-old truths on the exercise of diplomacy and the use of force. While diplomacy without the sanction of force is impotent,…
New areas of cooperation
Relations between the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are finally picking up much-needed momentum. Recent talks held in Ho Chi Minh City between EU…
Gorilla in the closet Problem of NSS
Reducing the budget deficit has traditionally been hard for Pakistan, given the country's problem with stagnant tax collection and unyielding public spending; it is only exacerbated by endemic corruption. Countries…
Challenges and opportunities
Arrangements made for re-polling at 43 stations in NA-250 showed the ECP and the Army the difference such arrangements could have made to the May 11 election results whose authenticity…
Time to reassess drones
The US drone strike programme has entered a period of re-evaluation and reconfiguration. Nowhere is this more evident and important than in Pakistan. Key indicators of reassessment and public inquiry…
Economic reform agenda
If everything goes well, Pakistan should see a new post-election government taking charge of the state soon. The new government will inherit numerous economic and social problems – the redressal…
From Astana to Amritsar
On April 26, Kazakhstan hosted the third Ministerial Conference of neighbours and ‘near-neighbours’ of Afghanistan (somewhat awkwardly designated as the ‘Heart of Asia’ countries) within the framework of the so-called…
Dreaming appeasement
The other day we heard Imran Khan pleading with the Taliban not by name, of course to desist from attacking political workers and party offices. If we were to extrapolate…
