Wednesday, March 19, 2025

The Mustafa Kamal Factor

Landing back in Karachi on Mar 3, 2016 all of a sudden after going off into self-imposed exile on Aug 14, 2013 (what he...

The First South Asian Muslim Quetta Staff Course Graduate

AbstractThe article is a military biography of a state forces officer of the Hyderabad State Forces, Brig Ali Ahmed. The officer completed the 1st...

CPEC Security Challenges

An economic force-multiplier encompassing road connectivity, energy, and infrastructure outlays, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) faces a host of internal and external security challenges....

The Needy and the Greedy

The glaring apathy of the developed world towards cases of well-known corruption taking refuge in their countries to secure ill-gotten gains is scandalous. Attending...

Regionalism in South Asia

IntroductionWhen the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (or SAARC) was created in 1985 - and the consensus was that it was the product...

Kashmir conflict and British culpability

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was obviously detached from reality when he suggested on March 08 that issue of Jammu and Kashmir should not...

Saudi Arabia’s North Thunder

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently hosted the world’s biggest military exercises “North Thunder” in terms of participating countries and equipment. North Thunder was...

China’s National People’s Congress 2016

Most recently, the Chinese government prioritized its national policies of economy, politics, investment, industrialization and taxes in the 12th National People’s Congress. It highlighted achievements...

The Future of US-Saudi Relations

U.S. - Saudi relations are under intense scrutiny. Officials in Riyadh chafe at U.S. reluctance to engineer the overthrow of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. More...

The Iran Nuclear Deal

IntroductionIn the sphere of ever-changing international relations, there are neither permanent friends nor enemies; it is only the national interests of a country which...