Dr Qaisar Rashid
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Pakistan's new strategic pivot: geo-economics
On December 14, 2021, addressing the Margalla Dialogue Forum 2021 on “Foreign Policy Challenges of Future in changing Geopolitical Landscape,” a debate organized by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said, “Indeed, we live in times of uncertainty. The world order seems to be in a state of severe […] → Read More
Humanitarian Transactions for Afghanistan
On 4 December 2021, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a press conference in Islamabad to announce that Pakistan would host a session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers on December 19 to sensitise the OIC to commit to offering economic assistance to Afghanistan for humanitarian purposes. The effort […] → Read More
Judiciary’s Baba Rehmatay
Compared to the past when politics used to unfold its theme of recognition, the judiciary is now venting the same. On March 9, while heading a bench hearing the suo moto notice case (related to a fee-hike for admission into medical colleges)at the Supreme Court (SC) Lahore registry, Chief Justice Saqib Nisar said, ‘Let me … → Read More
Judicial politics
Pakistan is a highly politicised society where even entertainment is presented in a politicised manner by news channels. On February 27, 2018, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mian Saqib Nisar, while hearing the case regarding drug prices, said, “I swear to God that I have no political agenda”. No one believed him. People did not … → Read More
Judicial relevance
The judicial activism launched by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Saqib Nisar makes it seems like he is out in the field to establish his relevance. However, it seems as if the people of Pakistan seem irrelevant to the higher judiciary. “Fundamental rights” is a beguiling term that masks lame excuses of every sort. … → Read More
Judicial waste
On February 6, 2018, outgoing Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court Justice Mansoor Ali Shah addressed a full court reference in his honour on his elevation to the Supreme Court (SC). Justice Mansoor Ali Shah stated, “The inner mafia in every institution supports the status quo and puts up resistance to change and reforms.” … → Read More
Judicial accountability
Judges are also subject to law. Though this simple point is yet to be recognised in Pakistan, a step has been taken in this direction on February 1 by Justice Muhammad Farrukh Irfan Khan of Lahore High Court (LHC), while hearing a writ petition against an administrative decision of the Chief Justice of the LHC, … → Read More
Judicial competence
On 20 April 2017, when the Panama case judgement was issued with one of the two dissenting remarks written by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, who borrowed a quote from The Godfather, ‘Behind every great fortune, there is a crime,’ the supporters of the judgment cited the remarks-making practice prevalent in the Supreme Court (SC) of … → Read More
Pakistan’s foreign policy orientation — VII
The day Pakistan allowed the US to fly its missions from its territory to spy on the former Soviet Union, Pakistan actually decided to tolerate the breach of its own sovereignty. Sometime after July 1956, Pakistan allowed its territory to be used to violate the sovereignty of the Soviet Union, till May 1, 1960, when … → Read More
‘American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers’
Multilateralism and selective engagement represent the two key United States foreign policy strategies. At least, this is the central premise of Perry Anderson’s book, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers. Anderson is a British historian, often identified as Western Marxist in leaning. Here, I hope to take a closer look at certain ideas discussed in … → Read More
Tillerson’s visit to Islamabad
The simple lesson of war is this: it is always better to resolve differences at the negotiation table than on the battlefield. And the sooner really is the better. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson flew into Islamabad this week, at the behest of Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif. The aim was to get diplomacy back … → Read More
Pak-US relations: the CPEC aspect
Hardly had anyone remembered how to commit a foreign policy blunder when the US reminded the Asia region of the US ability to do so. The tyranny enacted by the blunder is that it was meant to touching a raw nerve of both Pakistan and China. On October 6, US Defence Secretary James Mattis appeared … → Read More
DailyTimes | Pak-US relations: the ‘safe-havens’ dip
Prospects for peace are subservient to the fear of unknown. Each year the month of September discharges this message to the US, which still believes that if 9/11 can visit the US once, it can visit it again. Certainly, the maxim that the ruinous part of history retains the option of and potential for self-replication keeps a human being wary of the visiting future. One wonders if the… → Read More
DailyTimes | Khawaja Asif in the US
Much to the dismay of the conspiracy theorists, Secretary Mattis briefed the Congress with the words that the US was ‘in Afghanistan to make America safer and to ensure South Asia cannot be used to plot transnational attacks against the US homeland or our partners and allies’ Pakistan seems to have travelled a significant distance from the fetters of the conspiracy theory nurtured and propagated… → Read More
DailyTimes | The Afghanistan snare
In 1979, Pak-Afghan relations strengthened Pak-US relations by waging a conflict against the invading Soviet forces in Afghanistan. However, in 2017, Pak-Afghan relations are wearying Pak-US relations, when the US itself is embroiled in the Afghanistan quagmire. Lately, what nudged Pakistan back into the Afghanistan snare was the attack of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on the Army Public… → Read More
DailyTimes | Civil-military relations: the foreign policy aspect
Truth is the victim when it is claimed that the civilians and the military in Pakistan are on the same page. They are not, and perhaps they cannot be in the near future. Since 9/11, there have been certain developments, which keep on pulling the civilian half of Pakistan to join the page constructed by the military section of Pakistan. Hitherto, this pull has produced insignificant results. What… → Read More