The result of the hotly contested by-election of NA122 and PP147 has taken an interesting turn where PMLN was able to retain the national assembly seat of NA122 but couldn’t save its provincial seat of PP147 which was won by PTI. PMLN’s Sardar Ayaz Sadiq won the NA 122 seat […]
Politics
PMLN’s Ayaz Sadiq leads the by poll against PTI’s Aleem Khan
The highly contested by polls of NA 122 constituency are over and according to early reports, PMLN’s Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has a slight edge over PTI’s Aleem Khan. Throughout the day, supporters of both parties made sure to bring the voters to the polling booths. However, despite the efforts, the overall […]
Prospects of development: Pakistan’s Relations with Central Asia
The geo-strategic, political and economic significance of the Central Asia makes it one of the most important regions in the world which connects the South Asia, West Asia, Russia, China and other parts of the world through the historic Silk Route which always has served as a crossroads in terms […]
PMLN’s Rana Akhtar Ali wins PP-100 By-election
PMLN candidate Rana Akhtar Ali today won the PP-100 by-election with a sizable margin according to unofficial and unconfirmed reports. Rana Akhtar Ali secured 49,991 votes, while Ehsanullah Virk who was contesting on PTI’s ticket bagged 28,380 votes. The by-election was held after the death of Rana Shamshad Ahmed Khan, […]
Leaking the Judicial Commission Report
According to unconfirmed reports, the judicial commission, formed to probe the rigging charges of PTI in the 2013 general elections, has rejected all allegations leveled by the party. “The commission has rejected PTI’s allegations of rigging in the 2013 general elections”, said Shahid Hamid, an advocate who represented PMLN before […]
China vs USA: Could the Two Superpowers ever be involved in a War?
The defence zone of China overlaps with Japan. Both the countries claim control over a few small scattered islands called Senkakus(Japnese language) or Diayou(Chinese language). As China, recently, announced its new boundaries of the air known as ADIZ (Air Defence Identification Zone), USA who has a security accord with Japan, […]
Pak-China Strategic and Economic Cooperation: Challenges & Opportunities for the Region
The phenomenon of continuous swing in the global political dynamics besides a shift in power among the major players of the world, the face of interstate relations keeps changing respectively. Given the fact, it is important that our understanding of the world should also evolve accordingly, and we are not […]
Nuclear powers and the politics of non-proliferation
In the post-Cold war era, one of the major foreign policy objectives of the great powers has become prevention of further nuclear proliferation and for the reason many nonproliferation frameworks are developed. During the Cold War era, the formation of Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968 with the aim to […]
Pakistan and Yemen Crisis: The ‘Heavy Price’ of Neutrality
Is the decision of nonalignment of Pakistani government on Yemen crisis a courageous maneuver or a naive act of ‘tweedle dee and tweedle dum characters’ of parliament for which a heavy price is yet to be paid? It was but a surprise for many when PM Nawaz Sharif announced that […]
PTI to return to assemblies says Imran Khan
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf core committee has decided to return to assemblies after a boycott of almost nine months. It was decided after the government agreed to form a judicial commission to probe whether the general election of May 2013 were free and fair and reflected the true mandate of the people. […]