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Financing of Diamer-Bhasha dam and the CPEC
Anam Fatima
These days, the financing of Diamer-Bhasha Dam is in the news. Prime Minister Imran Khan has called upon the expatriate Pakistanis to generously support funds for the dam. The Supreme Court has already established a dedicated…
Attack on Chinese engineers in Balochistan
On August 11, 2018, a suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying Chinese engineers in Balochistan. It later emerged that the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) was behind the attack. The attack has raised questions about security to…
Iran-US nuclear deal: Tehran back on track
Iran is a Middle Eastern country, sharing borders with Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia. The country has been striving hard to get nuclear technology. Many states viewed in the 1990s that Iran was on the verge of…
Pakistan in Saudi-led anti-terrorism alliance?: Background
On 15 December, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced the formation of a military alliance against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Daesh. To the surprise of Pakistan, it too was included in the alliance. Meanwhile, Pakistani…
Executive summary of comprehensive package of NAP
Ever since NAP has been launched, there has been decline in violence in the country. This decline needs to be sustained by simultaneously addressing the much deeper issues, going beyond the militaristic quick fixes. Without addressing those…
Sectarian violence in Parachinar: Backgrounder on NAP actions against sectarian terrorists
Sectarian terrorists hit a make-shift market in Parachinar on December 13 killing 25 people and wounding more than 60 others. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Aalmi and South Waziristan-based Ansarul Mujahideen separately claimed responsibility for the…
San Bernardino shootout: Backgrounders
The December 2 deadly shootout at San Bernardino, United States, by an American couple of Pakistani descents, is raising new questions about their path towards radicalization.
Of special curiosity is the embrace of radical ideas by women…
Fighting terror: institutional structure in the context of NAP
Azam Khan and Aamir Saeed
The National Action Plan, announced after the December 16 attack, enlists 20 points meant to fight terrorism in the country. To undertake these points, the government constituted several committees. A central…
Timeline of NAP actions
Timeline of NAP actions
When?
What?
The source?
Dec. 30, 2014
The five religious educational boards agreed to consider government proposal of adding modern education in their syllabus.
Dawn, December 31, 2014,…
Dead wrong
Immediately after the December 16 Taliban attack on Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar last year, Pakistan scrapped a six-year informal moratorium on executions, and approved “execution of death penalty in terrorism-related cases”. The…