by Zubair Torwali* The author is a community activist, researcher, author, and educator based in Bahrain, Swat Pakistan. Zubair has published works in English, Urdu, and the Dardic Torwali language. He has authored and supervised a number of books in and about Torwali. His book in English, Muffled Voices, provides insight into Pakistan’s social, cultural, […]
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by Ozer Khalid* *The author is a Senior consultant, geo-political strategist and Criterion Quarterly contributor. He can be reached on [email protected] US airstrikes on March 18, 2021 targeting Taliban fighters actively attacking ANDSF security forces positions in Laghman and Kandahar renders the fragile Afghanistan peace process ever-more arduous. America requires an operationally resilient ANDSF to prevent
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M. Saeed Khalid* *The author is a former Ambassador of Pakistan. Joe Biden represents the calm that followed Trump’s storm Ten days after being sworn in as 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden made his first foreign policy statement at the State Department. Among the subjects covered by Biden, there were notable omissions
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A strategic foreign policy overview by Özer Khalid* *Özer Khalid is a Senior Consultant, a Criterion Quarterly Content Developer, a Counter-Extremism expert and Geo-Strategist. He can be reached at zzerkhalid@ gmail.com Abstract The opinions expressed in this essay are analytical and expert views offered by field specialists who have been duly cited and referenced at
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Muhammad Azam Khan* *The author is accomplished researcher with wide ranging contributions in foreign magazines and journals. Abstract (Recent developments in Saudi-US-India relations have put Pakistan’s long held and steely ties with Riyadh in a flux. Though these could be marginally reset by the new Biden administration, the trilateral relationship has emboldened Modi and his
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by Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal TI(M)* Abstract Writer is a former Assistant Chief of Air Staff Pakistan Air Force and Former Consultant to Islamabad Policy Research Institute on Policy & Strategic Response. He is the Founding President of Pakistan Focus, an online think tank. Research for this paper closed on February 21, 2021. Shall
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by Ishrat Husain* *Ishrat Husain is a former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan. Abstract The formulation and implementation of economic reforms generate winners and losers. The former are normally silent, the latter critically vociferous because the trickle-down benefits of growth come too late. The leader who ignores populist sentiments places himself in political
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