March 14, 2021 Online Conference on boosting trade between Iran and Afghanistan An online conference is scheduled on opportunities and strategies for trade between Iran and Afghanistan on Monday. This has been stated at the portal…
May 12, 2019 Will Iran replace Pakistan in Afghan transit trade? While the United States is creating war hype, India is using Iranian port, Chabahar as transit route to send goods to Afghanistan. According to…
June 29, 2016 Pakistan a victim of its own bad foreign policy On June 19, 2016, I posted a blog titled, Is Pakistan’s foreign policy tweaked? My concluding remarks were, “It is feared that tweaked foreign…
June 19, 2016 Is Pakistan’s foreign policy tweaked? To begin with it may not be wrong to say that since independence Pakistan’s foreign policy has been dictated by the United States. During…
April 16, 2016 Pakistan: Natural Trade and Energy Corridor For more than quarter of a century I have been working as economic analysts. Later on I ventured into political economy and the new…
March 11, 2016 Is asking Iran to freeze oil production at current level justified? Saudi Arabia and Russia initiated the move to freeze output at January 2016 level and other smaller oil producing countries joined them. However, most…
February 14, 2016 US-Russia-Pakistan troika The USA and Russia, it seems, are now being pulled together by the exigencies of the times and, in the interest of world peace,…
February 6, 2016 Is declining oil price the only concern? Somewhere I read a story about the energy giants ‘seven sisters’ which virtually control the global economy. All analysts are talking about declining earnings…
October 9, 2015 Implication of Iran Accord with P5+1 The accord reached between the P5+1 group and Iran seems to be unfolding like a jigsaw puzzle. Many people have not understood the underlining…
June 15, 2013 Pakistan: Foreign Policy Dilemma It is often said that Pakistan enjoys geopolitically important position but this factor has become its worst enemy. Pakistan’s location has made it highly…