Biden faces stay or go dilemma in Afghanistan
January 27, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
As new US President Joe Biden works to undo many of his predecessor Donald Trump’s foreign policies and legacies, the outgoing administration&rs...
Rajapaksas marching Sri Lanka towards military rule
January 22, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Even at the height of the Sri Lankan state’s armed conflict with the rebel Liberation Tigers...
Factors that’ll shape Pak-US ties under Biden
November 15, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
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The ascendance of Joe Biden to the Presidency of the US is being seen as a watershed, expected to produce some significant changes in US...
Biden’s foreign policy will be different except vis-à-vis...
November 7, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Joe Biden
With Joe Biden likely to become the next US President, the question what concrete changes he will make in America’s foreign polic...
Why Abdullah Abdullah visited Pakistan and India?
November 3, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Abdullah Abdullah talks with Prime Minister Imran Khan
When Abdullah Abdullah recently visited Pakistan and India, the impression was that he,...
Loss of Farzad–B is a major strategic setback to India
October 30, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
India’s loss of the Farzad-B gas field in Iran is among major strategic setbacks that New Delhi has experienced under the Modi government.&nbs...
PAKISTAN URGES UN TO ENSURE 'FULL IMPLEMENTATION' OF KASHM...
October 24, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has urged the United Nations to exercise its legal and political authority to ensure full implementation of its...
Pakistan government is ‘between the devil and the deep blu...
October 22, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan talks about continuously rising remittances the country has bee...
Afghanistan: Forging peace beyond the peace process
October 16, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
While the ‘intra-Afghan’ negotiations are on in Afghanistan, the Taliban have been busy making separate deals, both with State and non-sta...
Why Pakistan has to engage the Kabul regime both now and p...
October 4, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Abdullah Abdullah (L), Chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, meets with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Islamab...
The Abraham Accords have put Pakistan in a foreign policy...
September 26, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
The question of recognizing Israel and normalizing relations have certainly brought a fundamental shift in the way the ‘Muslim world’ on...
Odds remain against India in Afghanistan
September 20, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Village elders meeting in Marja, in March 2010. Photo: The New York Times
Despite India’s hurried participation in the recently started i...
How a Pak-China front is adding to India’s Kashmir woes
September 12, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
The fact that the UNSC does not recognize India’s claims is evident from the way it continues to maintain its direct presence in the “...
Pak-US ties remain under the shadow of ‘terrorism’
September 6, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Pakistan and the US continue to cooperate in Afghanistan to bring about a political settlement and end the US’ longest war. But such cooperati...
China-US ‘de-coupling’ will shake Asia too
August 29, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
While this remains to be seen whether the US would actually ‘de-couple’ from China or not, a decision involving ‘de-coupling&rsquo...
Kabul should work for an all-inclusive political structure...
August 25, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
President Trump at Bagram Air Base in Kabul in November 2019
When Afghanistan’s ‘Loya Jirga’ arrived at a consensus on the re...
Indifference of other countries blocks US bid to create an...
August 11, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
US-China ‘tensions’ are undoubtedly at the centre of tectonic changes taking place at the global level. Whereas the US is actively seeki...
Pakistan’s ‘brotherly ties’ with Saudi Arabia are under ge...
August 7, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Mecca in June 2019
Geo-politics is an ever-chan...
A year after Kashmir’s annexation, India is far from stron...
August 5, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even a year after the Modi sarkar’s decision to scrap Kashmir’s Special Status and thereby annex it, the regional balance of power has not...
Strong case for regionalizing Pakistan’s foreign policy
July 26, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
With the US-China rivalry turning fast into a ‘New Cold War’ and the US openly calling for an anti-China coalition, there is no gainsaying...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
