The United States (US) has reaffirmed its commitment to help Pakistan in its endeavours to resolve the energy crises which is affecting the socio-economic progress of the country.

• September 16, 2011

State-controlled energy giant Gazprom is planning, along with western partners, two huge gas pipeline projects whose stated goals are to secure Europe's energy supplies but which critics say will increase the EU's dependence on Russia.

• September 16, 2011

The Uzbek Foreign Ministry’s leadership and Slovakian Ambassador Juraj Sivacek discussed the issues within the Uzbek-Slovak agenda , the Foreign Ministry reported.

• September 16, 2011

Whereas Pakistan is the next door neighbor of landlocked Afghanistan, which is dependent upon Pakistan land routes and Karachi port for its imports and exports, Pakistan has never tried to exploit its vulnerability or to blackmail it. India, which doesn’t share border with Afghanistan, is aspiring to become the most influential in that country.

• September 15, 2011

Visiting Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo said Wednesday that China would work with Russia to deepen pragmatic cooperation and build a close, long-term and sustainable economic and trade relationship.

• September 15, 2011

Pakistan is seeking the latest Chinese technology to build over 1,000 MW power nuclear reactor being developed by China. ”Pakistan is in discussions with Chinese companies for imports of the third-generation nuclear technology,” Pakistan’s minister of science and technology, Mir Changez Khan Jamali said.

• September 15, 2011

by Marat Terterov,
EGF Director

When a game breaking event takes place in the Middle East once each decade

There is a certain understanding amongst Middle East politics experts that a game breaking event of cataclysmic proportions hits the region once every ten years or so. September of this year will mark the 10^th anniversary of the unimaginable acts of terrorism which were perpetrated in New York in September 2001 by Arab suicide bombers.  These acts of violence catapulted America’s ‘War on Terror’ to the centre of Washington’s foreign policy agenda, opening the way for renewed civil war in Afghanistan and the US-led invasion of Iraq of 2003. READ MORE

• September 15, 2011

Insights into Turkish Domestic and International Politics during August 2011
Key developments:

• Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan visits Mogadishu on a famine aid mission, the first visit by a non-African head of state in nearly 20 years. The trip is a huge boost to Turkey’s international image.
  
• Violence in the south-east of the country continues, leading to Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) cross-border raids into Iraq.
  
• Following criticism from the US Secretary of State, the justice ministry contradicts the number of journalists said to be held by Turkish authorities.
  
• Ankara continues to condemn the Syrian regime despite not calling for the resignation of President Bashar al- Assad. The country wins a seat at the Paris meeting of the new Libyan government following the apparent collapse of the Gaddafi regime.
  
• Azerbaijan and Turkey continue to negotiate a gas transit agreement, while Turkey’s reliance on foreign energy imports has reportedly increased 5 % since the AKP came to power.
  

• September 15, 2011