G-B without a military footprint, tourism, trade with China, AKRSP and other NGOs would be a different story

The biggest challenge to the intra-Afghan talks is from the internal divisions among the Afghan political factions

Afghanistan remains one of the most widely covered crises of modern times

The Chinese model is based upon the binary of opposites — Yin-Yang

All rich individuals are not essentially corrupt

China has so far defended non-interference but cannot remain the ‘hesitant power’ in the evolving international order

Saudi Arabia is pivotal to the wider Islamic world and Pakistan in particular

In the long list of US/NATO failures, counter-narcotics and counterinsurgency strategies never complemented each other

We need to remember that status defines critical friendships and financial clout bestows status

Pakistan and Bangladesh need to realise that bilateral synergy can bring tremendous good to their people