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By Doug Bandow – One of the most stunning geopolitical transformations in recent years has been the warming relationship between South Korea and the People’s Republic of China. Yet Beijing is putting those ties at risk in a fit of pique over Seoul’s decision to participate in the THAAD anti-missile system. American policymakers are enjoying the spectacle of the PRC pushing Seoul back toward the U.S. Beijing’s relationship with the Republic of Korea began inauspiciously. At the conclusion of World War II the U.S. and Soviet Union divided the former Japanese colony, leading to creation of two independent states. North…

By Irfan Bukhari The project never materialised further than the paper it was produced on and the sense of achievement and joy that innocent Baloch people from Pishin felt met a premature death – unfortunately caused by ‘good governance’. Residents of the small town, which was founded in 1883 under the British Raj, were happy four years ago when the Balochistan Workers Welfare Board decided that it would establish a medical college cum 500-bed hospital in the area. The board forwarded the conceptual paper for approval to the top federal bureaucrats sitting in the Workers Welfare Fund which was approved…

By Haroon Janjua On the basis of evidence present in the form of statistics Pakistan has not achieved the desired targets and policy agenda remained missing throughout the long 15 years. In South Asian, region Pakistan is lagging behind all countries beside Afghanistan. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) refer to the objectives that had been set during the Millennium Summit of the United Nations (UN) in 2000, which culminated in the UN Millennium Declaration. 189 member states of the UN, along with some international bodies, committed to help in achieving these objectives by the year 2015. Some historical context may…