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The Rise in Pakistan Defence Budget: What to Read?
Prateek Joshi Commentary

Pakistan’s Budget was unveiled last month, as part of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-led government’s last budget for its term before the elections kick-in in the coming months. Of all the allocations, the allocation to defence sector generated he....

May 24, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Commentary , Pakistan’s defence budget , Pakistan’s higher defence spending
पाकिस्तान- पश्तून आन्दोलन का महत्त्व
Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF

पाकिस्तान की राजधानी इस्लामाबाद ने पिछले कुछ वर्षों में कई विरोध और धरना प्रदर्शन देखे है। परन....

March 28, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
पश्तून में ‘लंबी पदयात्रा’ का विश्लेषण
Prateek Joshi

पिछले दिनों, पश्तून समुदाय में पहली बार ऐसी लामबंदी देखने को मिली, जिसके माध्यम से इस्लामाबाद प�....

March 13, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan , पाकिस्तान में पश्तून आन्दोलन , सुरक्षा बल बर्बरता
Commentary: Pakistan - Significance of Pashtun Protests
Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF Commentary

Pakistan’s capital Islamabad has seen many dharnas and protests in the last few years. However, perhaps for the first time it was witness to a 10-day sit-in (01-10 February 2018) by about 5000 Pashtuns largely from the Federally Administered Tribal....

March 05, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Energy Security , Commentary , Islamabad protests , Pashtun’s extra-judicial killing , FATA , Pashtun , Pashtun Protests
Commentary: Suspension of United States Aid to Pakistan
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Commentary

Issues Meriting Consideration The United States policy to Pakistan remains an enigma and has moved through ups and downs. 2018 began with a tweet from the President that the ‘United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than ....

February 22, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Commentary , US Aid to Pakistan , terrorist networks in Pakistan
रावलपिंडी का रणनीतिक गणित और पाकिस्तानी चुनावी राजनीति में आतंकी पार्टियों का उदय
Varun Nambiar

अगस्त में जब पाकिस्तान के सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने पूर्ववर्ती प्रधानमंत्री नवाज शरीफ को भ्रष्टाच....

November 07, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
US Policy: The India Card
Sushant Sareen

After US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Pakistan a ‘reliable partner’ and Defense Secretary Gen James Mattis talked of trying “one more time” to work with Pakistan to stabilise Afghanistan, it appeared for a moment as though the US c....

October 18, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , India , Pakistan’s double-game , US punitive options , US Secretary , Trump. Pakistan
आतंकवाद पर पाकिस्तान की बकवास की पड़ताल
Sushant Sareen

पाकिस्तान में केवल भोले-भाले आम आदमी ही नहीं बल्कि तथाकथित ‘बुद्धिजीवियों’ (ज्यादातर पाकिस्त�....

October 17, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan , आतंकवाद , पाकिस्तान , झूठा प्रचार , Terrorism
Rawalpindi’s Strategic Calculus and the Emergence of Militant Parties in Pakistani Electoral Politics
Varun Nambiar

When Pakistan’s erstwhile Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was declared ineligible to hold his office by the country’s Supreme Court on a corruption charge in August,1 Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD), the public charity wing of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Le....

October 16, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Fact-Checking Pakistan’s Tripe on Terrorism
Sushant Sareen

The thought-control exercised by the ‘deep state’ in Pakistan over not just gullible common folk but also the so-called ‘intelligentsia’ (a misnomer for most Pakistani academicians, analysts and journalists) is so overwhelming that most of th....

September 20, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
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