EU hails progress made on FATF action plans: FO

Islamabad: The recently held 12th European Union (EU) - Pakistan Joint Commission at the Foreign Office to exchange views on all areas of cooperation between the EU and Pakistan - is of added significance as it comes ahead of th...

Progressive Steps

The ongoing genocide in Gaza has laid bare the impotence of the United Nations, as Western powers—chief among them the United States and its allies—continue to flout international law with impunity. Decades of carefully cons...

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Tariffs and non-neoliberal globalization – II

Please click here to read Part-I of this article. US President Donald Trump recently enhanced tariffs unilaterally on all countries – with a base uniform tariff of 10 percent applied on all countries, along with half of the...

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Geopolitical cataclysm

Three years into the Ukraine War and one and a half years into the Gaza War, geopolitical chaos and uncertainty has only quadrupled. Peace is evasive and global players seem to be eyeing endgames that would plunge humanity into ...

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The Dhaka dimension

A reset with Bangladesh is most promising and has opened new vistas of regional cooperation. The foreign secretary-level talks held in Dhaka, after a hiatus of 15 years, under the Foreign Office Consultations theme has formally ...

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Healing history

Pakistan and Bangladesh held a foreign secretary-level Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) meeting in Dhaka on Thursday – the first such diplomatic engagement between the two countries in 15 years. The last FOC was held in 2010,...

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