VOL 6 NO 2

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 […]

By Ali Sarwar Naqvi* I must begin with a bit of personal history regarding the Fissile Materials Treaty. I may have been the first Pakistani to know of the proposal relating to the conclusion of  such a  treaty. This was the year 1993, and I was the Deputy Chief of Mission in our Embassy in

By Toheed Ahmad* I arrived Brussels in end August 1987 to report for duty at our Embassy for Belgium which also doubled as our Permanent mission to the European Union besides looking after matters relating to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. I was brimming with the Allama Iqbal idea – the success of my project

By Sultan M. Hali* Abstract: In Pakistan extremism has taken various forms. Sometimes it strikes in the form of attacks by terror mongers, who are prepared to hit a target of their choice at will. Schools, hospitals, markets and places of worship have become their favourite targets. Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies (LEAs) have taken the

By Zubair Iqbal* Abstract Pakistan is not a unique case. A number of countries have encountered broadly similar economic challenges, implemented appropriate policies, and have restored self-sustaining rapid growth with internal and external stability over the medium term. Notwithstanding the debilitating impact of the recent floods, there is no reason why—if appropriate policies are implemented–

By By A. G. Noorani* Abstract This brief survey of the American, British, Indian and Pakistani experience seeks to demonstrate the perils of the first, the improvements in the second, the mess in the third and a worse mess in the hybrid in the last. In India and Pakistan politicians in power had subverted the

By Shahid Javed Burki* Abstract The spreading, street inspired revolutions in the Middle East in the first quarter of 2011, will profoundly affect the area’s political development, its economic progress and its relations with the West, in particular the United States. Most of the countries that were caught in these revolutions are not likely to

By Dr. Tariq Hassan* Abstract Raymond Davis, a United States national, killed two Pakistanis in Lahore on 27 January 2011—albeit allegedly in self-defense. This case had the potential of becoming a major foreign policy issue between Pakistan and the US. Even though the matter has been resolved privately through a compensation scheme, the handling of