Tag: afghan refugees
The Afghan refugees in Pakistan
By Yasmeen Aftab Ali
PM Khan has opened a Pandora’s Box
It was in 2009 that the United Nations refugee agency and the government of Pakistan...
Climbdowns, cheese and crowdfunding: Imran Khan’s first month as PM
By Memphis Barker
Pakistan’s former cricket captain is fast learning that holding office in the country brings heavy compromises.
On Monday morning, in the ramshackle suburb...
Pakistan, US should join hands to achieve stability in Afghanistan: Ahsan...
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said that since both Pakistan and the United States were stakeholders in Afghanistan’s stability, they should join hands...
Tweets and consequences
By Munir Akram
THE insult contained in President Trump’s new year tweet accusing Pakistan of “lies and deceit” was followed by announcement of the injury...
‘A disaster in the making’: Pakistan’s population surges to 207.7 million
By Pamela Constable
For years, Pakistan’s soaring population growth has been evident in increasingly crowded schools, clinics and poor communities across this vast, Muslim-majority nation....
A sustainable solution for Afghanistan
By Yasmeen Aftab Ali
Afghanistan has multidimensional issues. One set of issues stems from internal structural causes. The second set stems from involvement of other...
‘Leave out migrants and you undercount population’
How has Pakistan fared when it comes to census-taking and how is it shaping up this time? The Friday Times asked Dr. Mehtab S....
Danger on the Durand Line
By Michael Kugelman
Tensions Rise Between Afghanistan and Pakistan
Last month, Pakistan suffered its deadliest spasm of terrorist violence since 2014. Over a period of four...
National Action Plan: Politics of rhetoric
Spearhead Analysis – 02.07.2015
By Abdulla Wasti
Research Analyst, Spearhead Research
This week, Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah stressed on the importance of implementing the National Action...