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By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi ............................................... 11 Positive Turn in Pak-US Ties | Editorial ....................................................................................................... 14 NSG Prospects for Pakistan By Abid Hussain .............................................................................................. 16 The Search For A New Foreign Policy By Dr Hasan Askari Rizvi .................................................................. 18 Improving Pak-Iran Relations: A Game Changer By Sheraz Zaka ................................................................ 21 The New World Order And Pakistan By Shahzaib Khan .............................................................................. 24 The Crisis of Pakistani Democracy By Rasul Bakhsh Rais ............................................................................ 27 Indo-US Nexus ‘A Threat to Pak Security, CPEC’ By Maqbool Malik ........................................................... 29 Population Crisis | Editorial ........................................................................................................................ 31 Major Energy Policies of Pakistan (1987-2013) By Dr. Asia Mukhtar ......................................................... 33 Kashmir Talks | Editorial ............................................................................................................................. 38 Pak, US, India — Friends or Foe? By Aroma Shahid .................................................................................... 40 Reiteration of Cold Start Doctrine By Beenish altaf .................................................................................... 44 ECONOMY Monetary Policy | Editorial ......................................................................................................................... 46 Socio-legal Imperatives for CPEC By Jahanzaib Durran .............................................................................. 47 SCO: Aims and Objectives By Baber Ali Bhatti ............................................................................................ 51 World Bank Warning | Editorial .................................................................................................................. 53 Poverty and Economic Policies By Khalid Bhatti ......................................................................................... 54 Let us go Back to Basics, not to IMF By M Ziauddin.................................................................................. 57E EDUCATION Education: A Solution for Pakistan By Fiza Farhan ..................................................................................... 61 Digital Literacy And Education Reforms By Hammad Asif .......................................................................... 63 Depoliticising The Higher Education By Munir Ahmed ............................................................................... 65 Failed Education System | Editorial ............................................................................................................ 68 A Change in Approach | Editorial................................................................................................................ 69 5 Buy CSS Books Online as Cash on Delivery http://cssbooks.net | Call/SMS 03336042057 October 2017 WORLD Syria Endgame? | Editorial .......................................................................................................................... 70 Is North Korea a Threat to USA? By Yasmeen Aftab Ali .............................................................................. 72 Trump at the UN By Shahid Javed Burki ..................................................................................................... 74 Non-Proliferation Never Ran Smoothly By Ubaid Ahmed .......................................................................... 77 Russia’s Resurgence — What Will Be Putin’s Next Move? By Muhammad Ali Baig .................................. 80 India’s Nuclear Arsenal By Muhammad Umar ............................................................................................ 83 How Muscular Hindutva is Replacing India’s Secular Base By Irfan Husain ............................................... 86 Making Adjustments to Trump’s World Order By Shahid Javed Burki ....................................................... 89 Nasty Indo-US Nexus Bares its teeth By Iqbal Khan ................................................................................... 92 Yemen Conflict: No End in Sight By M Waqar Anwar ................................................................................. 95 Rising US-Iran Tension | Editorial ............................................................................................................... 97 Time to Ratify the CTBT By Rizwan Asghar ................................................................................................. 98 What is Behind Turkish-US Crisis? By Akhtar Jamal .................................................................................. 101 Decertifying Iran Nuclear Deal By Yasmeen Aftab Ali ............................................................................... 105 Trump’s Afghan Policy déjà vu ? By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi .................................................................... 108 Nuclear Politics in South Asia By Asma Khalid .......................................................................................... 111 Managing A Nuclear North Korea: More Is Not Better – Analysis By By Bernard F.W. Loo ..................... 114 United Nations — Achievements and Failures By Mohammad Jamil ...................................................... 118 Modi Climbdown | Editorial ..................................................................................................................... 121 New World Order By Remshay Ahmed ..................................................................................................... 122 Xi and 19th CPC Congress By Adeela Naureen ......................................................................................... 124 A New Saudi Arabia? | Editorial ................................................................................................................ 127 Time to Denuclearise the World By Abdul Sattar ..................................................................................... 129 6 Buy CSS Books Online as Cash on Delivery http://cssbooks.net | Call/SMS 03336042057 October 2017 PAKISTAN Goodwill After Pak-Afghan Meeting? | Editorial Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani have held an important and necessary meeting in Kabul to try and put the Pak-Afghan bilateral relationship on a more stable footing. What is particularly encouraging is that both sides appear to have come away from a series of meetings on Sunday with a relatively positive assessment of what transpired, suggesting that a modicum of much-needed goodwill has been generated. Given the destabilising approach to the region outlined by US President Donald Trump in his South Asia strategy and the Afghan government suffering from a number of ongoing political and security crises, it was necessary that Pakistan and Afghanistan engage each other directly to prevent a further unravelling of ties. While a true regional solution to Afghanistan’s problems is needed, the fact remains that Pakistan and Afghanistan are the two countries with the most at stake. As previously Afghan and Pakistani leaders have also discovered, the two countries have no option but to engage in meaningful dialogue. However, the necessity of constructive dialogue has not necessarily caused it to materialise in the past. Part of the problem appears to be that neither the Pakistani nor the Afghan side have approached a potential dialogue in a structured manner. Blame games, allegations and recriminations, and short-term demands at odds with long-term confidence-building measures have been plentiful; missing has been the belief that joint problem-solving is likely or possible. In recent times, Pakistan has tried to change the ad hoc approach to the bilateral relationship by suggesting a list of priority areas for cooperation that can 7 Buy CSS Books Online as Cash on Delivery http://cssbooks.net | Call/SMS 03336042057 October 2017 progressively