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Qir Hussain

Qir Hussain

Arab News Pakistan

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What went wrong?

REGARDLESS of whoever ruled Afghanistan, the country has always been a problem for Pakistan. The latter’s strategic planners may have hoped that...

15.03.2023 100

Dawn

Qir Hussain

Reviving ties

AFTER a decade of contentious engagement, during which mutual ties touched one of their lowest points, Pakistan and the US want to revive relations....

02.02.2023 100

Dawn

Qir Hussain

Why anti-Americanism continues to thrive in Pakistan

Pakistan-US relations are on the mend. How far they will go and where they are headed is not yet clear, but the keenness to move forward is evident on...

18.01.2023 50

Dawn Prism

Qir Hussain

America’s wars

AS a long-time senator, President Joe Biden is a rare witness to a whole new era in US foreign policy in which America did not win a single war...

18.12.2022 90

Dawn

Qir Hussain

Free or dependent?

PAKISTAN does have an independent foreign policy. It is not a protectorate or a colony much less a slave; it is a sovereign country free to have its...

01.12.2022 200

Dawn

Qir Hussain

An underwhelming foreign policy

Has Pakistan fared well in coping with the whole new international relations environment that has been emerging over the past few decades and the...

23.11.2022 200

The News International

Qir Hussain

Engagement returns

THE US-Pakistan engagement is back. Historically, the two countries have not remained estranged for long before re-engaging. But the irony is they did...

04.11.2022 100

Dawn

Qir Hussain

New directions?

FOREIGN MINISTER Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has just visited Washington. By all accounts, his visit helped carry forward the recent revival of Pakistan-US...

01.10.2022 100

Dawn

Qir Hussain

Some inconvenient truths

The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior visiting research fellow at the National University of...

21.09.2022 70

The News International

Qir Hussain

Domestic foreign policy issues

The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior visiting research fellow at the National University of...

29.08.2022 200

The News International

Qir Hussain

Absent democracy

WHAT is democracy? The focus of democracy is the people, and its core idea is self-governance. So if the people were to govern themselves, would you...

20.08.2022 400

Dawn

Qir Hussain

Faulty assumptions

The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior visiting research fellow at the National University of...

01.08.2022 50

The News International

Qir Hussain

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