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Political

2018 to Present

Dawn articles

The News articles

The National Interest articles

2018

Why Trump's Troubling Pakistan Policy Dooms Afghanistan Peace

Why Pakistan Needs a Democratic Revolution

What Pakistan Needs from America's Afghan War Effort

2017

Dancing on the edge

Will Pakistan Find Stability Following Its Latest Political Shake-up?

A long wait for democracy

The future of democracy

Kashmir: an alternative view

Did America "sabotage" Pakistan's democratisation?

Fighting on three fronts

Are India-Pakistan Relations Doomed?

The Real Key to Trump's Afghanistan Strategy

Afghanistan war: some glaring misperceptions

The Danger of Trump's Pakistan Approach

2016

US-Pakistan relations: can a lobbyist help?

Policy dilemmas

Policy confusions

US-Pakistan relations: uncertainties ahead

Two Trumps and two Americas

After Modi's Visit to Pakistan: Beyond Hugs and Handshakes

What's Wrong With US-Pakistan Relations?

Is the United States Abandoning Pakistan (Again)?

2015

In With the Old: India-Pakistan Relations at a Standstill

What Did Pakistan Premier Sharif Actually Accomplish on His US Visit?

U.S.-Pakistan Relations Must Rebalance for Today's World

2013

New Pakistan President and Secretary Kerry's visit to Pakistan

Interview on Iran by the Foreign Policy Research Center New Delhi

US Pakistan Relations -- an Historical Review -- Criterion Quarterly

General Raheel Sharif Appointed as Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff

2012

Understanding democracy in Pakistan

Second term's challenges

2011

Obama, Afghanistan and Pakistan

'Democracy' vs democracy

Partners in denial

Rethinking our foreign policy

What kind of democracy?

A complicated approach

Uncertain times

2010

US-Pakistan Relations: What Trust Deficit? - The Middle East Institute Policy Brief

Secretary Clinton's Challenges in Pakistan

Post 1979 Pakistan: what went wrong?

2008

Interview by the Monitor - A journal of international studies at the College of William and Mary

US Relations with Pakistan: The Need for a Strategic Shift

The War on Terrorism: What Went Wrong?

Pakistanis at the crossroads

A movement for reform

The Perils of Extremism

US & democracy in Pakistan

Will America attack Iran?

Will the US listen to the OIC?

A symbiotic relationship

Future of US-Pakistan relations

Where the US went wrong

2005

United State Institute of Peace - Special Report on U.S.-Pakistan Engagement

Our Image Abroad

2004

Allies, but not friends

Democracy and governance

Winning the war against terror

OP-ED: Islam and the West: obstacles to understanding

Perception and reality: Islam and the West-II

Islam and the West: distorting realities

Peace in South Asia: US factor

Bush vs. Bush

A Pakistani perspective: Necessity for peace has never been greater

India-Pakistan: it would take three to tango

Imperial America: a sceptic?s view

2003

Cost of Iraq adventure

OIC: myth and reality

Militant Islam and Washington neo-conservatives: Best friends of each other

Op-ed: We need wider debate on Kashmir

Perceptions and reality - India Pakistan relations

Washington's terms of engagement

Pakistan's image abroad

Making of our (Pakistan) foreign policy