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Ikram Sehgal

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The writer is a defence and security analyst, he is Co-Chairman Pathfinder Group, Patron-in-Chief Karachi Council on Foreign Relations (KCFR) and the Vice Chairman Board of Management Quaid-e-Azam House Museum (Institute of Nation Building).

Success and Failure

Our major problem is that we cannot seem to separate Counter-insurgency (CI) operations from Counter-terrorism (CT). Terrorism is more urban- based, insurgency normally operates...

From the Editorial Desk (January-2014)

Dear Readers, This DJ issue is dedicated to one of my flying instructors who died recently in Canada. Cal Patrick Tierney was no ordinary individual,...

A State of Hypocrisy

What a travesty that the prime beneficiary of Ms. Benazir Bhutto’s murder should shed crocodile tears on her death anniversary and call former President...

The State of Insecurity

To trace the origins of insecurity in Pakistan we must study both the natural and contrived deficiencies in our social, political and economic sectors....

The Ultimate Responsibility

No Army in the world can stand by and tolerate continuing bad or criminal governance or both. The application of the doctrine of necessity...

From the Editorial Desk (Dec-2013)

After weeks of intense speculation in the media, two senior army officers were appointed as Chief of' Army Staff and Chairman Joint Chief of...

Countering the Terror Threat

Consider the theatrics of the absurd by some political clerics at the killing of the terrorist responsible for slaughtering thousands of innocent Pakistanis. Indeed...

An Imperfect Electoral Process

Democracy is representative of the will of the majority, our major problems stem from experimenting with various models of ‘imperfect’ democracies. A social state...
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