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Pakistan no longer retains ‘same strategic firm’ for US: Think tank
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Pakistan no longer retains ‘same strategic firm’ for US: Think tank

A European think tank has noted that Pakistan's regional machinations no longer serve a strategic purpose for the United States as it used to be in the past for former American administration. Instead, Washington now appears to be gearing up for a bigger and multifaceted battle with China.According to European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), the fact that Pakistan, China's sworn best friend, no longer holds the same charm for the US it once did was made evident in the US State Department report which highlighted the fact that Islamabad had been designated as a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, and that it had been re-designated as a CPC in 2019.The State Department report also drew attention to the fact that Pakistani "...
Amendment in ‘Azad’ J-K’s Interim Constitution Act 1974 reeks of subjugation, occupation: EFSAS
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Amendment in ‘Azad’ J-K’s Interim Constitution Act 1974 reeks of subjugation, occupation: EFSAS

An Amsterdam based think tank has said that the draft of the 14th Amendment Bill to the 1974 Interim Constitution of the Pakistan-occupied and the so-called ‘Free’ Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), has served as a grim reminder of just how suppressed and occupied J&K actually is."It is not, however, the proposed 14th Amendment that would be responsible for bringing this situation about. The major credit for that would go to the 1974 Interim Constitution promulgated during the period when Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the Prime Minister of Pakistan," European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) said."This so-called Constitution, among other things, spelt out the contours of the future relationship between the Pakistani State and Pakistan-occupied J&K, and the picture that it presented f