Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide BombingsAt Twenty-eight Shia persons were killed and 46 others injured when a suicide bomber struck outside a mosque just after the Friday prayers in Pat Bazaar in Hangu Town (Hangu District) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 1, reports The News. The officials of the bomb disposal unit (BDU) confirmed that…
If ethnic and sectarian strife were not enough to go with terrorism, we are now facing religious strife. One is under no illusion that this is not being deliberately fomented to aggravate the deteriorating law and order situation, slipping beyond the control of the civilian law and enforcement authorities (LEAs) into anarchy, the creeping kind….
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 system, representative democracy, basic values, ideology, economy and the decision – making process. Because they impact beyond the boundaries of single society, socio-political issues require ethnical and responsible solutions. However if…
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 shock and awe in the region and also panic in the different important capitals of the world. Of course it has multiplier effects in the fields of socio-economy, geo-politics and geo-strategic….
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 interesting altercation during the weekly briefing at Pakistan’s foreign office, preceding the ceremony: Emerging regional pivot in our foreign policy is in our national interest; it is indeed reflective of public…
Pakistan and India are in the midst of a Cold War to influence developments in Afghanistan. Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 both have injected their confrontation into Afghan affairs where they follow a zero sum game in which the gain of one is the loss of the other. This equation is…
(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 welfare of children of lesser of God in Pakistan i.e. Sweet Homes, Orphanage Centers etc. She is great speaker having scholarship/expertise on Islam, Diplomacy, Event Management. She is strong advocator of…
Major General ® Shah Rafi Alam was a well respected officer and gentleman of Pakistan army. He was son of Shah Nazir Alam of Sehswani Sayed family and Irene. Nazir joined Indian Police Service (IPS) and was one of few senior police officers inherited by newly independent Pakistan. Nazir was Inspector General of Police of…
IntroductionAll out war started on 20 November 1971 in East Pakistan and within one week most of the formations were shattered against overwhelming attacking Indian forces. The relative strength is mentioned in subsequent paragraphs. Eventually on 16 December 1971 the Pakistan Eastern Command (Commander Lieut General Niazi, known as Tiger Niazi) unconditionally surrendered about 65000…
“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 but a word which resembles the mafia-like deterioration of state structures. When we start to learn some basics about Pakistani politics (its internal and regional instability, its relations with the Muslim…
