Pakistan
Pakistan: Elections to the Upper House of Parliament – Traditions and Challenges
Pakistan held elections to the Senate on 5 March 2015. A preliminary analysis of the results shows that they did not bring significant changes to the alignment of the main political forces in the Upper House of Parliament...
Pakistan-India: New Phase of Nuclear Tensions
"Pakistan reserves the right to safeguard its national security interests; the operationalisation of Indo-US nuclear deal for political and economic expediencies would have a detrimental impact on deterrence stability in South Asia," the foreign...
Pakistan: Fight for Tougher Anti-Terrorism Legislation
The terrorist attack on December 16, 2014 at a secondary school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has convinced the military and political leadership of Pakistan to take urgent measures to curb extremism. One of the first steps was the lifting by Prime...