K. Iqbal
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Palestine focus
Excluding rarities, the Palestine policy of successive US administrations has been erratic, ambiguous and even mischievous, aimed at maintaining status quo. No → Read More
Opportunity for Afghan peace
An interesting peace initiative for Afghanistan is in the making. If it clicks the new American administration could be more than happy to hand over this open → Read More
‘Trumog’ begins to lift
Every analyst is busy in separating Donald J Trumps electoral rhetoric into pursuable and abandon-able categories. However, his campaign guys, in the hope of → Read More
Trump’s world and world’s Trump
Donald Trumps victory has caught the world by its throat, and in all likelihood, we are in for interesting times. His victory presents an interesting case → Read More
CPEC is online
Even though China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would take a couple of years to become fully operational, it became nominally functional on October 31, as → Read More
Doha’s peace process
The urge for Afghan peace, at least theoretically and at times breaching the boundary of wishful thinking, is too strong amongst all stake holders. Thats why → Read More
India’s suicidal water pursuits
Having come to terms with the irrevocability of Indus Water Treaty (IWT), India is contemplating launching its water wars through Afghanistan. Pranab Dhal → Read More
India stands exposed
While Indian political and military leadership is busy in eating their words pertaining to surgical strikes, Pakistans response to escalation by India has been → Read More
Modi, please grow up!
Over the last week, Indian leadership took a number of steps to provoke Pakistan into action. Pakistans leadership has acted pragmatically. The comedy of → Read More
Afghanistan’s untenable stalemate
In a strong message to international community through his speech to the UN General Assemblys ministerial session on September 21, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif → Read More
Fallacy of Global Zero
Countdown of President Obamas White House days has begun, so he is making a last ditch effort to leave behind a legacy. And as there is none, he is trying to → Read More
India on the wrong side of history
Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Gautam Bombawale was quite a normal person when he arrived in Pakistan. He was assigned to Pakistan in the wake of Indias → Read More
Pak-US: Perpetual fire fighting
Previous weeks witnessed some unilateral American actions which poured chilled water on the Pakistan-US relations. Droning of Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in an → Read More
Back to bipolarity?
Two recent events indicate that evolvement of long awaited bipolarity in the World Order may be at a fairly advanced stage. Both events happened in quick → Read More
Afghan peace, a far cry!
Significant factors impacting peaceful or otherwise Afghanistan are: stay-exit dilemma of the US, will of the Taliban, Indian meddling, handling of Afghan → Read More
Beginning all over again!
Strategic landscape in Afghanistan context is changing fast. Americans have long been working to go back on their promise of pulling out of Afghanistan. → Read More
Flip-flops of surround syndrome
The obsession with the surround-and-contain syndrome in Asia has overwhelmed India-US axis (not yet nexus), since the end of the cold war. The US wants to → Read More
America and the spirit of Yum-e-Takbir
Whenever Americans are in trouble they promptly accept humbling terms and conditions but never forget to pick-up the threads immediately after the obtaining → Read More
Witchhunt in Bangladesh
May be time has come for Pakistan to re-open the trial of Agartala Conspiracy case and take the matters to their logical conclusion by exposing the → Read More
F-16’s impact on Pak-US relations
A few years back an Indian diplomat approached this scribe on the side-lines of a think tank activity and asked a blunt question: Sir Arent you excessively → Read More