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Tanvir Ahmad Khan

Tanvir Ahmad Khan

Tanvir Ahmad Khan is a former foreign secretary and ambassador of Pakistan. He is currently the chairman and director general of the Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad.

 Recent Articles

  • story 1
    Monday Sep 3

    India-Pakistan peace talks lack momentum

    Notwithstanding vociferous opposition to reconciliation in some quarters, the direction is positive and may be irreversible if trade ties are further streamlined and people-to-people contact is encouraged

  • story 2
    Monday Aug 20

    Zardari lobby holds Pakistan to ransom

    The government has paid more attention to its phantom battles with the armed forces and the higher judiciary than to the major concerns of the people

  • story 3
    Sunday Aug 5

    Break the Syria deadlock now

    A western military intervention will fragment the country into ethnic and sectarian fiefdoms and eventually throw the Arab world into disarray

  • story 4
    Sunday Jul 22

    Institutional deficit in the Muslim world

    The Supreme Court of Pakistan is trying to say proactively that the rule of law cannot be weakened further because of political expediency

  • story 5
    Wednesday Jul 11

    A thaw without promise of spring

    It will be an exaggeration to claim that there has been a rebirth of a genuine strategic partnership between Islamabad and Washington

  • story 6
    Monday May 28

    A rough passage to Chicago for Pakistan

    If Islamabad expected face-saving gestures from Washington, it met disappointment as the United States ruled out an apology for Salala deaths

  • Monday May 14

    What new France can offer

    An early test of change by Hollande would be state intervention to reverse the trend towards Islamophobia and cultural discrimination

  • story 8
    Monday Apr 30

    Geopolitics of Asian missiles

    With India and Pakistan having reached a theatre balance, regional Arab states are investing heavily in purchasing western missile systems

  • story 9
    Monday Apr 16

    Coping with the sole superpower

    Pakistan provides a cautionary tale of the difficulty in dealing with an America reluctant to admit Afghan debacle

  • story 10
    Monday Apr 2

    Making sense of US-Pakistan ties

    Political and military leaders have narrowed their differences and favour a hard-headed pragmatic re-setting of relations

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