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An ever-deepening political division

by Umer Gujjar in The Frontier Post, Dec 14, 2022Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan held a press conference in Islamabad along with Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Khalid Khurshid Khan and the Finance Ministers of Azad Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab and leveled serious charges against the federal government. The Chief Minister said that the provincial kitty ran out of funds and the province had been facing financial constraints after the regime change in the center.…

Elites’ vested interests and investment climate

by by Imtiaz Gul in The Express Tribune, Dec 14th, 2022.The writer heads the independent Centre for Research and Security Studies, IslamabadDecember is a month of grief for Pakistanis that has witnessed the break-up of Pakistan; the APS massacre with 148 deaths; and the carnage at the Parade Lane Mosque, Rawalpindi that claimed some 40 lives. As recently as December 6, the incumbent rulers added yet another day of embarrassment to this month. The Capital…

Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations

by Abdul Hadi Mayar in Daily Times, Dec 10, 2022The writer is an independent freelance journalist based in Islamabad covering South & Central Asia.If Pakistan objects to Afghanistan’s bilateral relations with India, it will be tantamount to its sheer meddling with the internal affairs of an independent neighbouring state. But if Afghanistan holds its relations with Pakistan hostage to its interactions with India, or any other country for that matter, it will be equally unfair…

‘US withdrawal boosted TTP activities in Pakistan’ct

By Asim Yasin in the News, Dec 9, 2022ISLAMABAD: …….. The National Counter Terrorism Authority in Islamabad informed the ( Senate Standing) Committee on Interior on Thursday that the US withdrawal had boosted TTP activities with its base in Afghanistan still intact and that the terrorism index had risen. The Senate Committee on the Interior was briefed that during the peace talks process, the TTP gained considerable ground and increased its footprint and magnitude of…

Why touch hornet’s nest?

by Imtiaz Gul in The Express Tribune, Dec 2nd, 2022.The writer heads the independent Centre for Research and Security Studies, IslamabadGeneral Qamar Javed Bajwa’s swansong at GHQ on November 23 was a cocktail of admissions of past guilt, mistakes and the armed forces’ resolve to stay away from politics. By doing so, he kicked up more questions than he answered. The first-ever public admission of political interference notwithstanding, Bajwa opened a Pandora’s box — a…