national dialog
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Need for National Dialogue

Although the state of Pakistan has always been in a never-ending crisis since its inception (or that is what generations of Pakistanis have experienced), the irony
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Domestic Politics and Public Policy

In a recently published book by the National University of Sciences & Technology, my chapter on “Domestic Politics in Hybrid War” asserts that domestic
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Time to Stop Reinforcing Failures

The traditional Chinese curse, ‘may you live in interesting times’ apparently a blessing is ironically used to suggest that life is
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Where have all the Statesmen Gone?

Despite all the known and unknown ills of democracy, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (US) have remained the two classical beacons of enviable traditions of democratic values,

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Power Politics – Time for a New Equation

Greed and power are the defining features of human nature. This has also been alluded to in Classical Realism that the desire for power and conflict are inherent features of human nature.

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Audio Gate: Fact or Fiction

Over the past few days, social media initially and later mainstream media in Pakistan have been abuzz with news of alleged leaked audio clips from the Prime Minister’s Office. The alleged hacker

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Pakistan – The Ongoing Crises
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Pakistan – The Ongoing Crisis

The recent events in Pakistan have been nothing short of a typical South Asian soap opera with complicated plots and convoluted turns, leaving the public in shock with the unfolding each successive

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Is there a Way Out of the Mess Pakistan is in?

Pakistan today is in a situation never witnessed before during the last 75 years.  Pakistani rupee is depreciating at an unprecedented rate. The depreciation witnessed just in the last three and a

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Significance of Political Security

According to Human Development Report 1994, “New Dimensions of Human Security,” which was prepared by the Committee headed by a renowned Pakistani economist Dr Mahbub ul Haq, the elements of human security

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