Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The Ides of March Again

If ethnic and sectarian strife were not enough to go with terrorism, we are now facing religious strife. One is under no illusion that...

Redress of Grievances

National Security can be undermined because of the socio-political environment prevailing and its dependencies, viz the roles of viz (1) state and the political...

Pak-China Strategic Friendship further Strengthened

Most recently, Pakistan's government used its trump card and announced to hand-over the Gwadar Sea Port to its closed strategic ally China. It produced...

Pakistan’s Regional Pivot

High profile inaugural ceremony of Iran-Pakistan (IP) pipeline on March 11, 2013, marked a watershed in the foreign policy of Pakistan. There was an...

Indo-Pak Cold War in Afghanistan

Pakistan and India are in the midst of a Cold War to influence developments in Afghanistan. Since the fall of the Taliban regime in...

Al Jawahira Abdullah Al Arifi

(She is proactive in the promotion of various socio-economic and cultural activities and programs in the country. She has been rigorously engaged in the...

Major General (Retd) Shah Rafi Alam (1932-2004)

Major General ® Shah Rafi Alam was a well respected officer and gentleman of Pakistan army. He was son of Shah Nazir Alam of...

Some Bitter Facts and some Acts of Valour all out war, East Pakistan

IntroductionAll out war started on 20 November 1971 in East Pakistan and within one week most of the formations were shattered against overwhelming attacking...

Pakistan’s Future and its Deep State

"Deep State" (derin devlet in Turkish) is an imported term by the world from Turkey—it is neither a scientific concept nor a philosophical postulate...

The Obama’s Second Term Foreign Policy Challenges

American presidential elections have always been the victim of dichotomy. It is won and lost on the basis of domestic agenda. But, on the...