Book E-Launch – The Battle For Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and A Tough Neighborhood
In this e-launch of Shuja Nawaz’s The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and A Tough Neighborhood, the panelists (Shuja Nawaz, Raza Rumi,…
Sartaj Aziz Talks Foreign Policy, India And Nawaz Sharif With Raza Rumi And Faisal Devji
Sartaj Aziz, former foreign minister of Pakistan and author of Between Dreams and Realities: Some Milestones in Pakistan’s History, talks to Raza Rumi and…
Murtaza Solangi And Muhammad Ziauddin Discuss MBS Visit, Pulwama Attack
Journalists Murtaza Solangi and Muhammad Ziauddin sat down to discuss Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman’s visit to Pakistan, the Pulwama Attack which has…
Senior Analyst Raza Rumi explains Pakistan’s foreign relations in 2018
Senior Analyst Raza Rumi explains Pakistan's foreign relations in 2018 Pakistan's 2018 on the foreign policy front is summarised in this short video op-ed…
Watching Kunduz Collapse From the Sidelines
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (C) inspects the indigenously manufactured surveillance drone at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, some 65 km west of…
Publish At Your Peril
Pakistani journalists hold placards and photographs bearing the image of Geo television journalist Hamid Mir during a protest against the attack on Mir by…
Bangladesh on the Brink
Unrest sweeps Dhaka after disputed elections, but Bangladesh’s problems extend much farther from the ballot box. Also sparking the flames of turmoil are a…
A corridor to a closer Sino-Pakistani alliance?
Chinese influence in South and Central Asia is set to expand through the much-hyped China-Pakistan Economic Corridor just as the United States draws down…
The Art of U.S.-Pakistan Relations
A Pakistani theater group uses satire to question the national anti-American narrative. U.S.-Pakistan relationship remains an enigmatic story of converging and competing interests, and…
Back in the Driver Seat
Pakistan military is back in the driving seat. This time, not through a conventional coup detat, but through an amended constitution that enables military…
Pakistan’s Dueling Military Cultures
C. Christine Fair, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Aqil Shah, The Army and Democracy:…
Pakistan silently watches the rise of Narendra Modi
My analysis – Pakistan: Cautiously pessimistic about Modi’s expected rise to power – first published here: A decade of UPA-Congress rule in India ends…
Pakistan, Taliban and Karzai
My piece for ANN (link) where I argue how Pakistan’s Prime Minister is struggling to taking charge of the country’s security policies, away from…
The future of Afghanistan – towards a regional solution
Here is a video podcast I did for the Pak-China institute. The transcript follows the video. The situation in Afghanistan, especially as its unfolding…
Hassan Rouhani: Iran’s New President Will Build Alliances With India and Afghanistan
Here is something I wrote for policymic An unprecedented number of Iranians at home and abroad participated in the 11th presidential elections in the…
No more escape routes
Pakistan’s military should review the Taliban rule in Afghanistan and how they were not always the kind of partners and proxies we had envisioned…
Diplomatic duplicity
By C. CHRISTINE FAIR LAHORE — This much is clear about the latest convulsion in U.S.-Pakistan relations: an American man, operating under the name…