Friday, January 24, 2025

Special Emphasis on Terrorism (Dec-2013)

Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Bomb BlastA bomb on October 30 killed five Pakistani soldiers in a village near the Afghan border in the South Waziristan...

Smart Power

Power is nothing more than the ability to get others to do what you want. For doing that you require tools of coercion or...

Who is on Trial?

According to both legal opinion and mass public perception, prima facie the case against Gen Pervez Musharraf for treason is legally a “slam dunk”,...

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...

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...

Pak-UAE Commercial Diplomacy

Commercial diplomacy stands for further strengthening of economic integration, internationalizing, expanding across borders trade and above all stimulation to national economies. It is a...

Loya Jirga Endorses BSA

As anticipated, the Afghan Loya Jirga has endorsed a much awaited bilateral security agreement (BSA), allowing an unspecified number of American troops to stay...

Sifting Through Swamps

No conflict is static and it changes with the time. It evolves with changing policies, interests, capabilities and competing interests of key players. All...

Hazrat Dawood

GenealogyThe family tree of the Hazrat Dawood as per various Muslim writ­ers, Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Chronicles 1 of the Old Testament and Gospel...

Operational Leadership of

Admiral of the Fleet Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) is among the famous Japanese admirals of World War II. He has the distinction of being the...