Global Policy & Analysis Think Tank
Last year was a nadir in Pakistan-US relations after Donald Trump brazenly accused Islamabad of creating a “safe haven” for radials. That being said, as Trump has a penchant for cutting “aid” and military subsidies to foreign partners, this defamatory statement might well have been little more than an excuse […]
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has called on Imran Khan in Islamabad as the former will be Pakistan’s guest of honour during Pakistan Day Celebrations on the 23rd of March. Last year, Imran Khan held a successful bilateral summit with Mahathir in Kuala Lumpur during which both sides expressed a […]
If you do not ask, you do not get a seat at the table. As with any abusive relationship, Pakistan needs to be firm in where its stance will be and be the one setting the direction for the future. With Pakistan’s leadership being virtually conferred with a Nobel Peace […]
For decades, Pakistan has been cursed with political leaders who seemed incapable of grasping the importance of soft power as a tool for accomplishing important strategic goals without incurring any material expense. Last month however, the penny dropped and now the PTI government appears to be gradually mastering the art […]
The latest Kashmir Crisis resulted in a stunning reversal of international perceptions about India and Pakistan whereby the self-professed “world’s largest democracy” has now been recast as a rogue state wanting to wage a war of aggression on unproven pretexts while the previously presumed “rogue state” of Pakistan has been […]
Among the many things that will be celebrated during this year’s 70th anniversary of the founding of The People’s Republic of China (PRC), recovery, renewal and a restoration of dignity after a century of humiliation will be among the most important. Whilst China has evolved greatly since 1949 and continues […]
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has demonstrated that unlike many, he realises that the current disputes between Pakistan and India do not have their roots in some obscure theoretical rivalry, but instead have anything to do with a Kashmiri people who since 1947 have been deprived of the universal right […]
A popular Indian online media outlet published a piece purporting that part of one of the Pakistani Prime Minister’s latest speeches was intended to “exploit India’s fault lines under Modi’s rule”, which implies that the self-professed “world’s largest democracy” is taking a page from its American ally’s infowar playbook by […]
India thought that it pulled off an infowar coup by pretending to have carried out a “surgical strike” against 200-300 Jaish-e-Mohammed fighters in Azad Kashmir in the early hours of 26 February, but this vote-grabbing stunt by Indian Prime Minister Modi totally backfired on him after Pakistan turned this latest […]
There has been a great misnomer about the DPRK (North Korea) which claims that anti-American state media has been used to secure the seemingly absolute power of Kim Il-sung’s family over the state, ever since the DPRK was founded in 1948. What this theory fails to convey is that whilst […]
