Mr. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi’s address to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the National Assembly on May 12, 2023. The the hearing was public. Honorable Chairman Mohsin Dawar Sahib and Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs: AsSalaamu Aleikum. I am honored to have the opportunity to address this august body […]
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By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi* (An address given to the German-Pakistan Forum in Berlin on November 16, 1990 on the occasion of Allama Iqbal’s birth anniversary.) Now that the cold war has come to an end and peace is threatening to break out throughout Europe there is an understandable tendency to look for possible sources of
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The author is a former Ambassador of Pakistan. His writings for Criterion Quarterly are: Framing National Interest of Pakistan: Foreign Policy and Assurances of Peace A Peace Settlement in Afghanistan Transformational Leadership Pakistan’s Place in World Politics Iqbal, Pakistan, and the Political Imperative in Muslims Society An International Dimension of the Kashmir Struggle: A New
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The focus on the Korean peninsula’s nuclear crisis has ignored a core feature of North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) arsenal. Various sources suggest that the country possesses one the largest stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) in the world. North Korea’s chemical weapons program commenced in the late 1950s, soon after the
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By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi* There are slightly less than 200 member states of the United Nations. Pakistan is one of them. In terms of population, at slightly less than 200 million, Pakistan is the sixth largest country in the world, and by 2020 it is scheduled to become the fifth largest surpassing Brazil. At almost
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by Ashraf Jehangir Qazi* There are just too many myths about being a political leader, especially a people’s leader. One often hears that what Pakistan needs in its present parlous state is above all a people’s leader who will mobilize the masses and resolve the challenges we confront on all sides today. Most of the
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By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi* For Pakistan, what is an appropriate vision and strategy for Afghanistan? Are our goals and policies consistent with it? We need a friendly and stable Afghanistan with which we can build wide ranging and mutually beneficial cooperation based on shared interests and our legacy of close links. Friendly means well disposed,
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By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi* Given the state of our country it is only appropriate for people of my generation who contributed to it to speak with complete frankness and honesty in the hope that awareness, however painful, will be a first step to doing something. This is the least that we delinquents owe the country.
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by Ashraf Jehangir Qazi *Ashraf Jehangir Qazi is a former ambassador of Pakistan. This article was published in the April/June 2011 issue of Criterion. (An address given to the German-Pakistan Forum in Berlin on November 16, 1990 on the occasion of Allama Iqbal’s birth anniversary.) Now that the cold war has come to an end
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Ashraf Jehangir Qazi* *The author is a former Ambassador of Pakistan. The new phase of oppression in IOK began with Narendra Modi becoming Prime Minister in 2014, five years before August 5, 2019, when he abolished Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution that guaranteed the autonomous status of IOK. On August 11, 2019,
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