International Relations in India & Beyond
Pakistan has been retained on the Paris-based global money laundering and terrorist financing overseer Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list. This shouldn’t make India sanguine. India is itself scheduled for a FATF evaluation...
Pakistan, long viewed as an incubator of religious militancy, is gearing up for a battle over the future of the country’s notorious madrassas, religious seminaries accused of breeding radicalism. Islamist-led protests also threaten to...
India and Pakistan have been locked in a perennial conflict since their inception. While the conflict manifests itself in many forms, the most prominent are an arms race and several wars and skirmishes. While...
The unrest between India and Pakistan after the Pulwama attack has now become a global affair including the FATF. The Financial Action Task Force has been brought into the picture to tighten Pakistan’s constant...
Two attacks in Pakistan, including a brazen assault on the Chinese consulate in Karachi, are likely to complicate prime minister Imran Khan’s efforts to renegotiate China’s massive, controversial Belt and Road investments as well...
Pakistan’s financial woes continue. Pakistan lacks the foreign currency reserves needed to sustain its high imports and low exports – running a monthly deficit of $2 billion. Since December, the Pakistani Rupee has been...
The Pakistani military’s strategy of easing militants into the country’s mainstream politics is also not without risks for China that in contrast to its South Asian ally has adopted an iron fist in dealing...
Djibouti already owes 82 percent of its foreign debt to China while China is expected to account for 71% of Kyrgyz debt as Belt and Road-related projects are implemented. Increased Pakistani dependence on...
Pakistan’s determination to crack down on United Nations-designated global terrorists is being put to the test barely two weeks after the South Asian nation evaded blacklisting by an international anti-money laundering and terrorism finance...
The Pakistani government’s removal of a virulently anti-Shiite militant from its terrorism list at the very moment that an international money laundering and terrorism finance watchdog was deciding to put the country on a...
