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Author Archives: F.M. Shakil

于2016年11月13日在瓜德尔港口拍摄的中国货车 图片来源:法新社/ Aamir Qureshi
Posted inChina, Pakistan, South Asia

巴基斯坦瓜达尔港91%收入归中国

by F.M. Shakil December 15, 2017February 18, 2020
Pakistani soldiers stop traffic near Gwadar port in troubled Baluchistan province. Photo: AFP / Christine-Felice Röhrs / dpa
Posted inBeijing, China, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia

Belt and Road U-turn: China rethinks several Pakistani projects

by F.M. Shakil December 12, 2017February 18, 2020
A Pakistani man pushes a cart carrying water in jerry cans in a slum area of Karachi on October 25, 2017. Photo: AFP/Rizwan Tabassum
Posted inPakistan, South Asia, World

Judges put scandal of Pakistan’s toxic water under microscope

by F.M. Shakil December 9, 2017February 18, 2020
A passerby takes a selfie in front of a police prison van destroyed during clashes with police near the Faizabad junction in Islamabad, Pakistan, on November 26, 2017.  Photo: Reuters / Caren Firouz
Posted inPakistan, South Asia

Questions begged of military’s role in Pakistan’s political chaos

by F.M. Shakil December 5, 2017February 18, 2020
Chinese trucks carrying trade goods are pictured at Gwadar port on November 13, 2016. Photo: AFP / Aamir Qureshi
Posted inChina, Pakistan, South Asia

Bad terms: Pakistan’s raw deal with China over Gwadar port

by F.M. Shakil November 29, 2017February 18, 2020
相片:iStock
Posted inUncategorized

巴基斯坦的大理石出口困局

by F.M. Shakil November 24, 2017February 18, 2020
Photo: iStock / Getty
Posted inChina, European Union, India, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, World

How China’s marble exploits hurt Pakistan’s value-added economy

by F.M. Shakil November 22, 2017February 18, 2020
Posted inPakistan, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Pakistan’s finance minister on hop as money-laundering case re-opens

by F.M. Shakil November 17, 2017February 18, 2020
Sunni Muslims march during an anti-government rally in Islamabad on November 8, 2017. Photo: AFP / Farooq Naeem
Posted inAfghanistan, Iran, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Pakistan’s political and economic deterioration continues apace

by F.M. Shakil November 14, 2017February 18, 2020
Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab province. Photo: Reuters / Faisal Mahmood
Posted inPakistan, South Asia

Another Pakistan fiasco: Punjab’s ‘parallel public sector’

by F.M. Shakil November 11, 2017February 18, 2020
A view of the main hall of Pakistan's Parliament House. Photo: AFP
Posted inPakistan, South Asia

‘Mafia’ politics as Pakistan’s main parties bin anti-graft body

by F.M. Shakil November 3, 2017February 18, 2020
Pakistan's disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Photo: AFP / Aamir Qureshi
Posted inMiddle East, Pakistan, South Asia

‘VIP trial’ as Sharif family makes mockery of Pakistan’s courts

by F.M. Shakil October 30, 2017February 18, 2020
A Pakistani fruit vendor reads a newspaper as he waits for customers on a street in Islamabad. Photo: AFP / Aamir Qureshi
Posted inIndia, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Pakistan’s economy teetering as pleas for remedy mount

by F.M. Shakil October 20, 2017February 18, 2020
A young boy battles fatigue during Friday prayers with the exiled Caliph Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, on the grounds of a future mosque in Raunheim, Germany, on 14 April 2017. Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst / DPA
Posted inPakistan, South Asia

Pakistan succumbs to another round of Ahmadiyya-bashing

by F.M. Shakil October 16, 2017February 18, 2020
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi answers a question during the panel discussion with the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan, New York, on September 20, 2017.  Photo: Reuters / Jeenah Moon
Posted inPakistan, South Asia

‘Fake news’ spy report inflames Pakistan’s political crisis

by F.M. Shakil October 11, 2017February 18, 2020
A view from outside Pakistan's Supreme Court building in Islamabad. Photo: AFP / Aamir Queshi
Posted inAfghanistan, India, Iran, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, Syria

The growing ‘tug-of-war’ between Pakistan’s spy agencies

by F.M. Shakil October 4, 2017February 18, 2020
Pakistani religious students and activists gather for a protest against social media in Islamabad on March 8, 2017, and demanded the removal of all blasphemous content from social media sites. Photo: AFP / Aamir Qureshi
Posted inPakistan, South Asia, World

Academia has a role in fostering Pakistani terror

by F.M. Shakil September 30, 2017February 18, 2020
Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, poses for a picture with a supporter at a rally in Lahore, on September 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Drazen Jorgic
Posted inMiddle East, Pakistan, South Asia

Will Pakistan’s Sharif family make a deal to evade justice?

by F.M. Shakil September 21, 2017February 18, 2020
Pakistani and Chinese workers at the site of a Belt and Road project in northern Pakistan. Photo: AFP
Posted inAfghanistan, China, Pakistan, South Asia

Could China’s AIIB loans deepen Pakistan’s economic woes?

by F.M. Shakil September 17, 2017February 18, 2020
Activists light candles on the anniversary of the death of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Lahore, on December 27, 2015.  Photo: AFP / Arif Ali
Posted inPakistan, South Asia

Ten years on, no closure on Bhutto assassination

by F.M. Shakil September 9, 2017February 18, 2020

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