Opinion Editorials

Pakistan is blessed with a geographical location that makes it an extremely important player in the entire region in general, and South Asia, in particular. Pakistan’s geography, topographical features, and access to warm waters of the Arabian Sea make it uniquely attractive to the international players of the past, present…

On May 21 this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged a congratulatory message with Pakistani President Arif Alvi to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of China-Pakistan diplomatic relations. The two heads of state reviewed how mutual trust and friendship between the two countries have withstood the test of…

The Covid-19 pandemic has jolted the world in many ways, halting the progress of the world’s leading economies in the process. Reportedly 220 million people contracted the virus and 4.6 million lost their lives while fighting the disease. The pandemic has no doubt brought great grief to humanity. Businesses have…

As Prime Minister Imran Khan concludes his important visit to Tajikistan, Pakistan should urgently negotiate a new trade route with the Taliban to connect Islamabad with Dushanbe in exchange for a separate and shortest corridor via Gwadar. This is how it should look: The handover of trade routes along the…

The Gwadar Port (GP) is the golden opportunity for Pakistan to transform itself into a prosperous nation of the region through the path of robust economic growth, creation of higher paying jobs, and making it a permanent source for the desperately needed foreign exchange! Under the CPEC, the GP has…

Prime Minister Imran Khan has repeatedly shown admiration for the Chinese system. Contrary to popular notions, being an authoritarian state is not the raison d’etre of China’s rapid success. If one studies the Chinese system, their success would be found ingrained in the governance at the local level. It is…

CPEC has been termed as the economic jugular vein of Pakistan. Reviewing the economic history of Pakistan, one can see many ups and downs of Pakistan’s economy, but for a couple of decades, it is deteriorating continuously. Without blaming any political party or individuals, it has been witnessed that Pakistan…

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) provides many opportunities for Pakistan and confronts it with daunting challenges too, putting to a hard test its political will for good governance and diplomacy. While Pakistan’s leaders are bound to address the aspirations of its federating units for equitable distribution of projects under CPEC,…

WITH the drastic change in the regional geopolitical and geostrategic scenarios, especially in Afghanistan, there have been lots of anti-CPEC articles published in the Times of India, Hindustan Times and The Diplomat in recent times indicating Taliban capturing Kabul as a great setback to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Even the…

Afghanistan was taken over by The Mujahideen. Not a single bullet fired. No civil war. No resistance. No forceful closure of girls’ schools. No oppression of women and minorities. No attacks on any diplomats or embassies. No hostages were taken and no wrath unleashed. And all of the above is not…