Current Affairs May 2018

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May 2018
Current Affairs
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 World (23 Articles)
 Economy (5 Articles)
 Education (5 Articles)
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Table of Contents

PAKISTAN
Water Policy | Editorial ............................................................................................................................... 10
Indian, Pakistani troops to take part in joint drills | Editorial .................................................................... 11
Tackling Climate Change Together By Zile Huma ....................................................................................... 12
Elections 2018 | Editorial ............................................................................................................................ 14
National Security And Home Front By Javid Husain ................................................................................... 15
Understanding the Kashmir issue Dr Syed Nazir Gilani .............................................................................. 19
Pakistan Concerned Over US Withdrawal From Iran Deal .......................................................................... 22
Pakistan Urged to Focus on EU, Not Just China .......................................................................................... 23
Pakistan, Afghanistan To Work Towards Regional Peace Under New Security Plan .................................. 25
Alarming Population Growth Rate | Editorial ............................................................................................. 27
Pakistan’s Credentials For NSG Membership By Hasan Ehtisham .............................................................. 29
Twenty Years of S Asian Nuclearisation By Moonis Ahmar ........................................................................ 31
Kishanganga: Violation of IWT By Malik Ashraf .......................................................................................... 35
Indian Threat to Regional Security By Malik Muhammad Ashraf ............................................................... 38
OBOR Can Stop The Next Indo-Pak War By Asia Maqsood ........................................................................ 41
Take Down The Bureaucracy By Aadil Aamir .............................................................................................. 45
Twenty Years After | Editorial .................................................................................................................... 49
Finally, An Identity For FATA By Munir Ahmed........................................................................................... 52
Oversight: Caretaker Prime Ministers Over The Years ............................................................................... 55
Pak-India Peace | Editorial .......................................................................................................................... 58
PAKISTAN & WORLD RELATIONS
Trajectory of Russo Pak Relations By Adeela Naureen ............................................................................... 60
Pakistan-USA Relations: A Way Forward – OpEd By Syed M. Mehmood Hashim* .................................... 63
Pak-Turkey understanding | Editorial ......................................................................................................... 66
Pak-Afghan Relations Need an Overhaul By Yasub Ali Dogar ..................................................................... 67
Analysing Pakistan-Japan Relations By Dr Khalil-ur-Rahman Shaikh .......................................................... 71
Pak-India Relations | Editorial .................................................................................................................... 78
Improving Diplomatic Relations By Ishaque Khan ...................................................................................... 79
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New Era of Pakistan-China Relations By Zamir Ahmed Awan .................................................................... 82
Twists, Turns of Pak-America Relations By Salahuddin Haider................................................................... 84
ECONOMY
The Budget: Tools For Economic Analysis By Iftikhar Ahmad ..................................................................... 86
The Chabahar Port Project And Afghanistan’s Alternative Approach To Trade – AnalysisBy Jawad Torabi
.................................................................................................................................................................... 90
Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia and CPEC By Naveed Aman Khan.................................................................... 93
Economic Survey and the Budget By Dr Pervez Tahir ................................................................................. 95
CPEC, Its Geopolitical Challenges By Muhammad Javed Siddique ............................................................. 97
EDUCATION
The Education Conundrum By Shahid Siddiqui ......................................................................................... 100
Education Concerns By Mohammad Ahmed Ikram .................................................................................. 103
Budgeting Education By Mushtaq Rajpar ................................................................................................. 106
New Education Policy Unlikely to Win Green Light By Riazul Haq............................................................ 109
Education on the backbench By Shabana Mahfooz .................................................................................. 111
WORLD
Watch Out For Water Wars! By Khalid Saleem......................................................................................... 114
Taking a Cue From The Koreans By Talat Masood .................................................................................... 117
India Poised to Turn SCO into SAARC? By Iqbal Khan ............................................................................... 120
Time for a New U.S. Foreign Policy Narrative By Ian Bremmer and Joe Kennedy III ................................ 123
Here Is Why North Korea Will Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons By Gordon G. Chang ................................. 131
Modi in China and the Future of Sino-Indian Ties By Saadat Hassan ....................................................... 135
Meeting Between Putin And Trump Not Enough To Improve Relations – Analysis ................................. 138
After Obama, a Nobel prize for Trump — or not so Fast? ........................................................................ 143
The US and China Are Finally Having It Out By Thomas L. Friedman ........................................................ 146
Putin to Begin Fourth Term, But What Happens in 2024? ....................................................................... 153
Kim-Trump Summit Faces Big Challenges By Troy Stangarone ................................................................ 156
Trump Has Opened The Door to War By Salman Shoaib .......................................................................... 159
US-China Relations: A New Cold War? By Syed M. Saad Zaidi ................................................................. 161
Trump’s Policies Threaten World Peace By Mohammad Jamil ................................................................ 164
The New World Order: Donald Trump goes it alone By Gideon Rachman ............................................... 167
Carnage in Gaza By Zahid Hussain ............................................................................................................ 172
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Syria: New Cold War Turning Hot By Tariq Niaz Bhatti ............................................................................. 175
Growing World Disorder By Javid Husain ................................................................................................. 177
A Peaceful North Korea By Dr. Ahmad Rashid Malik ................................................................................ 181
Iran Still Implementing Nuclear Deal: IAEA............................................................................................... 183
The Unclimbable Summit | Editorial ......................................................................................................... 186
India’s Fragile Balance Between The US And Russia – Analysis By Luciane Noronha M. de Oliveira ....... 187
Nuclear Supplier Group’s Upcoming Plenary By Beenish Altaf ................................................................ 190

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PAKISTAN
Water Policy | Editorial

THE approval of a new national water policy in the closing days of the current
government is a tribute to the capacities of democracy. Water is the lifeblood of
Pakistan, and since the building of the world’s largest irrigation system, along with
a huge storage infrastructure, in the 1960s and 1970s, the sharing and utilisation
of water across sectors and among provinces has been one of the thorniest issues
in our politics. The policy itself has been under discussion, on and off, for over a
decade, and the final signatures of the four chief ministers and the prime minister
last week can be seen as a milestone, much like the water-sharing accord of 1991.

But now comes the hard part. The policy calls for increasing the share of resources
from federal and provincial development programmes to be dedicated to the water
infrastructure. At the federal level, this means accelerating work on the Diamer
Bhasha dam, and at the provincial level it means public works to plug leaks through
lining the water courses. The latter ought to be the biggest priority. Losses of water
are estimated at 46 MAF annually, whereas the Diamer Bhasha dam will add 6.4
MAF of storage capacity. If the policy succeeds in reducing losses by a third, as is
the stated goal, the amount of water it would free up would be double the capacity
of the Diamer Bhasha dam, at presumably less than half the cost. Far too often,
Pakistan’s water woes during climate change are presented as shortage in the
supply of water, whereas the real challenge is in the improved utilisation of the
existing supply. This involves some investment in physical infrastructure, but also
large-scale changes in farm-water management techniques and the sound
measurement of water flows through the system, to give a few examples. This
requires a crucial reform: water pricing — the only way to sensitise farmers to the
prevailing scarcity of water, and to urge greater efficiency in the use of this
resource. And yet, this is one area where the policy minces its words. It wants to
link water pricing with the “users’ ability to pay”, which is going to be next to
impossible for the state to assess.
Published in Dawn, May 2nd, 2018
Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1405139/water-policy
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