Tag: policy

In an interview with German newspaper Welt that was published this week, Minister of the State for Foreign Affairs Hina ...

In Pakistan, you will often hear lawyers proclaim that law is a ‘professional degree’ and it is with the same ...

Just a few days back, I read a fascinating review of a recently published book on development in the Financial ...

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has opined that Pakistan’s difficulties arise from the fact that governments that had a popular ...

The dawn of globalisation in the mid-twentieth century has reduced the scope of traditional international and transnational barriers of territoriality ...

Folk Devils A moral panic is a widespread fear — most often an irrational one. The fear is about someone ...

In June 2010, US President Barack Obama fired his commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, for insubordination. ...

PTI leader Imran Khan has told his supporters to prepare themselves and await his call to proceed to the federal ...

Think tanks play a vital role in any country’s decision and policy making by providing expert opinion and analysis. The ...

Political governments in Pakistan are an aberration and not a norm. There is no continuous involvement of civilian governments in ...

Today’s national security policy must navigate ideological divides, maintain a diversity of views, and balance policy options to create a ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan trekked the remote district of Nushki in Balochistan province. His visit comes after recent assaults on ...

It is now about a year since Pakistan’s higher education has been besieged by crisis. The situation was already not ...

A rollercoaster-like bilateral relationship between Pakistan and the US is now in a deeply mistrustful phase. Interestingly, their friendship begins ...

The much-spoken-of Bajwa Doctrine was a critical step in the development of Pakistan’s security mindset, and it attempted to suggest ...

A national security policy (NSP) has been unveiled in Pakistan that lays out the broad lineaments of policy direction for ...

It seems that the government is adamant on taxing people more and more and to gather revenue from whatever it ...

National Security Advisor (NSA) Moeed Yusuf has been reported as having said that the territory of Afghanistan continues to be ...

Documenting the National Security Policy (NSP) is a welcome step. After all, documenting something helps to know and understand it ...

Opposition senators have slammed the government’s bypassing of Parliament in approving the newly formulated National Security Policy (NSP) 2022-2026. Led ...

On the 9th of December 2021, the Economic Advisory Group (EAG) set up by the PRIME Institute, a private think ...

Pakistan is amongst the world’s most climate-change-vulnerable countries. Its geographical placement at the crest of the Arabian sea and between ...

American pragmatism in foreign policy is exemplary in the world of international politics. The US foreign policy establishment sometimes goes ...

Instead of coproducing films with Turkey, the government should support Pakistan’s new age filmmakers

In my last article in this space, I advocated for a wheat procurement policy that, amongst other objectives, could work ...