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Shahid Javed Burki

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America’s Asia excludes Pakistan

Given the way the global system is being restructured, a considerable amount of attention is being given to the two regions that are physically at a...

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The world has changed, so should the countries of Global South

Many countries in what is now called the Global South need to move away from the old model of development that produced rates of economic growth that...

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Is the war in Gaza approaching Pakistan?

The question posed in the title of this essay has a simple answer. It is in fact another question. How will the Muslim world beyond Palestine react to...

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Pakistan lives in a difficult neighbourhood

In several of my earlier writings, I have treated Pakistan’s location as a positive feature in its economic situation. It could become a major...

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Will AI benefit humanity or destroy it?

Serious scholarship is being devoted to a burgeoning discipline known as AI safety. AI, of course, stands for artificial intelligence which has...

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Renewable energy sources: Pakistan should turn to China

Pakistan has a serious shortage of reasonably priced energy which is affecting the rate of growth of the economy and causing hardship to the people...

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Negotiating a new trade deal

International trade agreements have always been hard to reach. That was not the case with other international treaties. Whereas, it took fifty years...

11.03.2024 30

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The meaning of good governance

The Burki Institute of Public Policy (BIPP) I chair in Lahore published its 2023 annual report late last year. Anticipating what the newly elected...

04.03.2024 70

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Policy priorities for the new government

There was expectation that the elections held on February 8 would significantly clear the political air. They would bring into being a government in...

26.02.2024 80

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General elections in the ‘big five’ in 2024

M ore elections will be held in the world in 2024 than ever before. Five of these will be in the countries with large populations. These are in...

19.02.2024 40

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Immigration: a safety valve for Pakistan

If you are a reasonably educated and trained Pakistani and finds that available jobs in the country don’t compensate well, migrating to the United...

12.02.2024 90

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The coming climate catastrophe

If more evidence was needed to point towards the coming climate catastrophe, it came with the release of the report by Copernicus Climate Change...

05.02.2024 70

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Missile exchanges between Pakistan and Iran

Having aided its proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen, Iran decided to expand the area of its conflict by attacking posts in three countries, that are,...

29.01.2024 50

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Some reflections on the life and work of Sartaj Aziz

When my wife and I called on Satrtaj Aziz in March 2023, he had then celebrated his 94th birthday. He was in remarkably good health. That was the...

22.01.2024 30

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The coming climate catastrophe

If more evidence was needed to point towards the coming climate catastrophe, it came with the release of the report by the Europe-based Copernicus...

15.01.2024 60

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A divided Muslim world

As Israel’s involvement in the Gaza Strip becomes more complicated by the day and as the television’s coverage of the damage the Israeli attack...

08.01.2024 70

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Tensions working their way into the American ties with India

Going back to last week’s article titled ‘The story of other India’, I will today examine why Washington may be distancing itself a little from...

01.01.2024 50

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The story of the other India

Of late, English language newspapers in the United States and Britain have been covering India from two very different perspectives. One angle adopted...

25.12.2023 80

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COP28: a non-binding agreement but nevertheless a deal

In the final session held on the night between December 13 and 14, the delegates to the 28th meeting of the Conference of Parties, or COP28, reached...

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The world Henry Kissinger leaves behind

Henry Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut on November 29 at the age of one hundred years. He was remembered in several obituaries that appeared...

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Youth’s concerns about America’s approach to the Muslim world

In the column on the growing generational divide published in this space last week, I promised to follow up on some of the points I then made. This is...

04.12.2023 60

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Generational divide in the United States

There is now a serious and noticeable generational divide in the United States which would have consequences for the country’s relations with...

27.11.2023 50

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China and the US take tiny steps towards détente

Presidents Jo Biden and Xi Jinping met in San Francisco on Wednesday, November 15, on the sidelines of the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic...

20.11.2023 60

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China’s increasing interest in the Gaza conflict

While Washington is working to build alliances in the Indo-Pacific region, the Chinese are turning towards the Middle East to advance their global...

13.11.2023 60

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Africa could come to the rescue of the aging world

Big change is coming to the world. This is not entirely because of global warming. Change is also occurring because of a sharp decline in the rate of...

06.11.2023 50

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The deepening Middle East crisis

What will happen after peace of some sort comes to Gaza? Several analysts asking this question have gone back to history and cited Franklin Delano...

30.10.2023 100

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The wider impact of the Hamas-Israeli conflict

On October 7, 2023, fighters allied with the group called Hamas that runs Gaza territory attacked several places in Israel. They were able to break...

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India’s Sikh problem receives global attention

  The Sikh problem came to the attention of the world in a way that India and its prime minister least expected. The allegation by Justin Trudeau,...

16.10.2023 50

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India’s Sikh problem

It is not unfair to say that India has a “Sikh problem”. I will examine this in two articles, the first of which appears today. The Khalistan...

09.10.2023 50

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US alliances in Asia

There is a growing impression in the foreign policy community that the United States and China are heading towards a cold war situation. Some believe...

02.10.2023 200

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China and the US: a deteriorating relationship

Sharply deteriorating relations between the United States and China will have serious consequences for the world. Relations between these two...

26.09.2023 100

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the world stage

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to put himself in a prominent place on the world stage. When he goes abroad, as he did while on a...

18.09.2023 50

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India is now a world leader in science and technology

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is creating the base on which the world would build its economic structures and social systems. This will be done by...

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