Pakistan As A Favourite Whipping Boy

China’s investment surpasses all foreign investments in Pakistan in the past. Win-win cooperation is based on trust, confidence and convergence of interests. The Chinese influence in Pakistan has touched an unprecedented high level and it has surpassed the US which has remained the most preferred ally since 1954.

In society when one person thinks of violence, one usually thinks of individual acts of violence. These types of violence are the kinds of violence most people fear, which causes us to lock our doors at night. But this is not the only kind of violence we are faced with. In today’s society or the 21

Since the mid 20th century an unlikely formidable alliance had slowly began to flourish in South Asia. China and Pakistan’s alliance began in the early 1960’s through the early 1970’s when conflicts between India vs. China and Pakistan had intensified. The Sino-Indian war that took place in 1962 ended as fast as it began. Along with the war that had taken place between India and Pakistan in 1965 and in 1971 when another indo-Pakistani war erupted and East Pakistan claimed independence and is known today as Bangladesh (Hagerty, 2002). In this comparison China and Pakistan had identified their similar interests with their historical and geographical concerns in maintaining “India’s power and influence” within Southeast Asia (Federal China Security Affairs Group [FCSAG], 2010). These are known as Geo-Political interests. There are many definitions of geopolitics but this one more specifically entails “the competition over the control of territory and extraction of resources” (Jonatan, 2012) China and Pakistan have built a friendship that is, “higher than mountains, deeper than oceans, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel” (Tharoor, 2015), they are collaborating on military technologies and supporting one another’s economic interests. Although the contrasts of these two countries greatly outweigh this entente, with concerns over insurgencies in Pakistan such as it being a safe haven for the Afghani Taliban, said United States President Barack Obama in

When I write, you should consider me as your brother, your brother in the sense of brothers in Pakistan, in the nation. Here, I am not defending myself, I am defending you. I believe in wanting to be like lances and swords confronting the enemies. According to Pakistan’s Constitution whether it’s the constitution signed by Z.A Bhutto, in which he believed – Islam is the religion of the state. Any injustice inflicted on a Pakistani gives me as much heartache as the person himself, not because I am afraid of him or any other human. I fear only Allah.

This brings me to the reason for my rant: Pakistan 's newfound "liberal conscience." Steered by the many "brave" columnists of the English-language dailies, theirs is a revolution bent on destroying Pakistan 's "Islamist" status quo. Since I am a card-carrying coward, I will stick to mundane facts.

Instead, India chose to fall into its traditional role of disciplinarian, behaving in such a way as to feed Pakistan’s already significant inferiority complex by getting Mr. Zardari’s regime to back into a corner with its ill-thought-out rhetoric and cumbersome actions. Once on the backfoot, Mr. Zardari was forced to react to, rather than engage with, New Delhi.

South Asia’s fluid and often stormy dynamics foreground the TAPI project. Pakistan and Afghanistan, for example, have spent most of 2015 locking horns over who supports which brand of militancy. Like his forerunner Hamid Karzai, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani accuses Islamabad of letting the Haqqani network use Pakistani soil as a springboard to launch attacks in his country. As recently as December 8, Ghani alleged to reporters in Kabul that Pakistan was waging

Turkish Parliamentary Deputy Kayatürk has known as on neighboring countries, such as Local local Indian local, for creating similar responsibilities as “It is in their passions to see a consistent Pakistan, otherwise attack will spill over into their position.”

The author of this book is Khaled Ahmed. Khaled Ahmed was in the Pakistan Foreign Service from 1969 to 1978. He left it to become a journalist of distinction in The Pakistan Times. He is a former consulting editor of Daily Times; resident editor of The Frontier Post; joint editor of The Nation and assistant editor of The Pakistan Times. He is a founder-member of Track-two Neemrana Dialogue between India and Pakistan. He is currently Director, South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), Lahore. He contributes regular

Since Pakistan came into being, it’s going through hard times. From newly born country to getting sixty four year old country, sometimes it has given sacrifices and sometimes remained victim of inapt political system. For the long time, it is facing number of challenges and conspiracies which has weakened its foundations and so is the structure. Therefore, many social and economic evils have taken birth in the lap of Pakistan; with the passage of time, the roots are getting deep hold. Every citizen of an independent nation has a right over basic necessities of life but unfortunately, Pakistani nation

Pakistan is an Islamic state located in South Asia that covers an area of 796,095 square kilometers. It shares border with India, Afghanistan, Iran and China and a marine border with Oman. It came into existence as an independent nation in 1947 and since then, it has been encompassed by incalculable issues including underdeveloped infrastructure, infertile and old production lines, international interference, instable government and corruption underscoring every deliberation towards progress (Africaw 2014). Moreover, regardless of being rich in natural resources, it struggles to be

While this was a major counter-terrorism initiative, Pakistan has an episodic history of reverting to proxy terrorism. It continues to harbour anti-India terror groups, which could be refocused towards India, once tensions with the Tehrik-i-Taliban subside and Pakistan could resume double crossing the US. However,

A nagging perception in some quarters in the West, especially the US, that Pakistan is not “doing enough”.

Pakistan by virtue of its geographic location started its international collaborated in 1990s during the Afghan war. After the war ended, it had to face the post war consequences as a burden of more than 3 million Afghan refugees, ever growing drug trade in neighborhood as well as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. Indeed the militia which fought against erstwhile USSR in Afghanistan was abruptly abandoned who found safe haven along Pakistan Afghan borders. After 9/11 the situation got complicated, Pakistan was to be fighting against those who were once trained in collaboration with CIA. Despite worst domestic pressures, Pakistan continued its commitment to international community in its counter terrorism efforts. Beside others, Ramzi Yousef and Mir Amal Kansi, the prime perpetrator of terrorists’ attacks on World Trade Center and United States embassies in Africa were apprehended by Pakistan. “Despite being the victim of terrorism itself, Pakistan has been cooperating with the international community and the US in counterterrorism efforts” .

Since Pakistan emerged on the map of the world sixty-seven years ago in 1947, its existence have been marked by many ups and downs that includes initial problems faced at its emergence, cold relations with India over border disputes and Kashmir Issue. Moreover wars fought with India in 1965 and 1971 which led to partition of East and West Pakistan. Administration was weak as Prime Ministers and Presidents were changing very frequently without any significant progress and policy makers were having hard time in making decisions. In this scenario our international relations also played a pivotal role in policy making. Pakistan location had an important role in determining its fate, as positioned next to India proved to be distressing for Pakistan due to their distrusting relationship. Secondly being a neighbor to Afghanistan led to problems later on when Pakistan was used by USA to fight USSR in Afghanistan which led to cold relations with USSR. However China was friendly towards Pakistan from beginning and their relationship became stronger by focusing on trade and investment. Pakistan became a member of United Nations on 30 Sept 1947 and became nuclear power in government of Z.A Bhutto when he encouraged people to make an atom bomb that saved Pakistan from an Indian or any external invasion throughout its years and due to this strong power we are still Independent and safe from