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China backs Pakistan on Kashmir; ready to help deescalate Pakistan-India tensions
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, while indicating Beijing’s support for Pakistan’s stance on the longstanding Jammu and Kashmir dispute, has offered to help improve deteriorating relations between its two South Asian neighbors. The US has also expressed...Sep 21, 2016 762 0 -
US-Pakistan relations fundamentally significant : John McCain
Senator John McCain, who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, has emphasized the United States and Pakistan have a fundamentally important relationship, and the emergence of ISIS security threat in Afghanistan has further heightened the significance...Jun 30, 2016 770 0 -
What Pakistan’s counterterrorism campaign in Punjab must achieve
After a series of intense civil-military consultations Pakistan has launched a new military operation n southern Punjab, the most prosperous province whose capital Lahore was the scene of a deadly March 27 Easter Sunday attack that killed...Apr 8, 2016 882 0 -
International Women’s Day : Pakistan must confront issues head on
In Pakistan, the provincial Punjab Assembly passed a landmark legislation last week, criminalizing all forms of violence against women. A few days later, the Council of Islamic Ideology, a federal advisory body, ruled the law as...Mar 8, 2016 1244 0 -
Gwadar Port – A promising point of regional cooperation, and competition
New Delhi’s decision to initially invest US $ 150 million for the development of Chah Bahar, an Iranian port, just 70 kilometers away from Pakistani deep-sea port of Gwadar, seems a manifestation of the decades old...Mar 6, 2016 1241 0 -
Pakistan’s democracy has opportunity to deliver
General Raheel Sharif – who is credited with prosecuting Pakistan’s most effective fight yet against terror – in North Waziristan and elsewhere along the Afghan border -– has announced that he would retire from the powerful army...Jan 27, 2016 1113 1 -
How Dec 16 school massacre, Pakistan’s 9/11, intensified terror fight
Since that chilling morning last year, December 16 has become a date for self-examination for two reasons. Until last year, it was a day of somber reflection for thinking Pakistanis, as it marked the fall of...Dec 16, 2015 1646 1 -
Biden: US has taken out al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri in Kabul
Killed in a drone strike...Read MoreAug 2, 2022 589 0 -
Press freedom ‘very bad’ in record countries; info chaos polarizing societies
A New Deal for Journalism needed...Read MoreMay 3, 2022 610 0 -
US takes out ISIS planner of Kabul airport attack; continues evacuations
Biden had vowed retaliation after Thursday's deadly attack...Read MoreAug 28, 2021 449 0