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July 2018 Current Affairs Latest Current Affairs Articles from July 2018 Pakistan (17 Articles) Pakistan & World (5 Articles) World (21 Articles) Economy (9 Articles) Education (5 Articles) Compiled By Shahbaz Shakeel www.thecsspoint.com DOWNLOAD CSS Notes, Books, MCQs, Magazines www.thecsspoint.com Download CSS Notes Download CSS Books Download CSS Magazines Download CSS MCQs Download CSS Past Papers The CSS Point, Pakistan’s The Best Online FREE Web source for All CSS Aspirants. 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By Mashhood Hassan Azam Awan ............................................................... 15 India’s Diplomatic Dilemma in SCO By Muhammad Asif Noor ................................................................... 18 Key Challenges For Next Government By Dr Salman Ahmed Shaikh .......................................................... 21 From Crisis to Consensus By Shakil Durrani ................................................................................................ 24 Human Rights in Kashmir | Editorial ........................................................................................................... 28 Melting Glaciers | Editorial ......................................................................................................................... 30 Democracy in Pakistan By Hasan Aftab Saeed ............................................................................................ 31 National Challenges Beyond 25th July By Senator Rehman Malik ............................................................. 34 The Unending Indo-Pak Conflict By Busharat Elahi Jamil ........................................................................... 38 The Population Bomb By Sabur Sulehria .................................................................................................... 42 Foreign Policy Plan | Editorial ..................................................................................................................... 46 Election 2018: A Change in the Making By Dr Muhammad Khan ............................................................... 48 Fixing The Justice System | Editorial ........................................................................................................... 51 Looming Energy Crisis | Editorial ................................................................................................................ 53 Prime Minister Imran Khan | Editorial ........................................................................................................ 55 PAKISTAN & WORLD RELATIONS Resetting Pak-US Ties | Editorial ................................................................................................................ 56 Good Neighbourly Ties With India | Editorial ............................................................................................. 58 Pak-Iran Ties: Positive Direction | Editorial ................................................................................................ 59 Pak-Afghan Dissonance and Democratic Peace By Mueen Uddin Ahmed ................................................. 61 Streamlining Indo-Pak Relations By Asad Hussain ...................................................................................... 65 ECONOMY Misconceptions About CPEC By Ikram Sehgal ............................................................................................ 69 Economic Challenges for the New Government By Waqar Masood Khan ................................................. 72 What Are We Importing? By Dr Pervez Tahir ............................................................................................. 76 Back to the IMF | Editorial .......................................................................................................................... 78 7 Buy CSS Books Online Cash on Delivery https://cssbooks.net | Call/SMS 03336042057 July 2018 Monetary Policy | Editorial ......................................................................................................................... 80 Trade Wars – Implications on Pakistan By Dr Kamal Monnoo ................................................................... 81 Economy: Challenges and Opportunities By Waqar Masood Khan ............................................................ 84 Rupee Strengthens Further Against Dollar By Shahid Iqbal........................................................................ 88 The Solution To Pakistan’s Looming Economic Meltdown By Mir Mohammad Ali Khan ........................... 90 EDUCATION Lessons From CSS Results By Muhammad Murtaza Noor .......................................................................... 92 Dismal State of the Top Cadre Services By Shehryar Aziz ........................................................................... 95 Accountability In Education By Junaid Zahid .............................................................................................. 97 Free Education! | Editorial ........................................................................................................................ 100 The Boiling Point of our Education Emergency By Hisham Khan ............................................................. 101 WORLD Trump’s Palestine Plan | Editorial ............................................................................................................ 104 Challenges: Euro-Asia and America By Rizwan Ghani ............................................................................... 106 Ending Pointless Afghan War | Editorial ................................................................................................... 109 Iran — Saving The Nuclear Deal | Editorial .............................................................................................. 111 NPT at 50: Powerless to Denuclearise By Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal ............................................................. 112 Climate Change And Urbanization: Challenges To Global Security And Stability – Analysis By Ronak B. Patel and David P. Polatty IV ..................................................................................................................... 115 Trump-Putin Summit – Episode Without Agenda? By Dr. Imran Khalid ................................................... 124 Afghan Peace: Another Jumpstart Effort By Iqbal Khan ........................................................................... 127 What’s Next For NATO? By Harlan Ullman ............................................................................................... 130 US-India Nexus Threat To Peace By Malik Muhammad Ashraf ................................................................ 133 All Change in Turkey | Editorial ................................................................................................................ 137 What Could Happen Next with North Korea By Victor Cha ...................................................................... 138 Change in Global Opinion | Editorial ........................................................................................................ 141 U.S.-Russia Relations are Stuck on Repeat By Nikolas K. Gvosdev ........................................................... 142 Syria Is Still a Mess By Robert Moore ....................................................................................................... 145 Helsinki Summit | Editorial ....................................................................................................................... 148 The Case For US Global Leadership – OpEd By Marc Grossman ............................................................... 150 Trump’s European Tour ends on Negative Note By Imran Khalid ............................................................ 154 Iran-US Verbal Spat | Editorial .................................................................................................................. 157 8 Buy CSS Books Online Cash on Delivery https://cssbooks.net | Call/SMS 03336042057 July 2018 Why Israel Was Never A Democracy – OpEd By Ramzy Baroud ............................................................... 159 9 Buy CSS Books Online Cash on Delivery https://cssbooks.net | Call/SMS 03336042057 July 2018 PAKISTAN Water Crisis: Treading Carefully | Editorial THE water crisis in the country is undeniably alarming. Serious action is required and long-term solutions will almost certainly include a combination of increased storage capacity and better utilisation of water already available in the system. Given the urgency of the problem, it is perhaps welcome that all institutions of the state are beginning to emphasise the gravity of the water crisis and the need for innovative