Over a 100 million TV viewers watched Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face-off in the first of three US Presidential debates in the evening of Monday, Sept 26. The build-up had been extraordinary, igniting huge emotions for and against the candidates. My friend Frank Neuman, vociferously Republican and therefore pro-Trump, summarized the expectations to be…
“In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences…
Azerbaijan and Pakistan completed 25 years of bilateral relationship and cooperation that extends to every sphere ranging from political, economic, technological, security to cultural arenas. The relation is based on a concept of “shared prosperity” and on rigorous commercial diplomacy and is consolidated on greater socio-economic connectivity, better political understanding and geo-strategic cooperation and increasing…
Indian hostility and belligerency have brought its relations with Pakistan to its lowest ebb for many years. The recent killing of Kashmiri youth Burhan Wani, sparked the worst violence in Kashmir in six years. Blaming the protests on Pakistan. Indian troops, mostly Hindu soldiers from Mizoram, Nagaland and other eastern states, killed more than 100…
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has already changed dynamics of power politics in the South East Asia, Central Asian, East Asian and Middle East regions. It is a fate changer for the whole region but its socio-economic diversity and strategic importance have produced conflicts among the regional countries. CPEC and IndiaIndia is now worried about…
The failures of Afghanistan’s dysfunctional government are phenomenal. So called decade of transitions is marred by corruption and inefficiency. President Ashraf Ghani is busy in useless pursuits, recently he took his anti-Pakistan rhetoric to new heights by threatening to shut the Afghan transit route for Pakistani exports to Central Asia if Islamabad does not allow…
Pakistan Navy’s biennial exercise Shamsheer-e-Bahr started during the last week of July and concluded in August 16. The exercise is a major conceptual undertaking and extends for nearly seven weeks. It is founded on contemporary and prospective maritime security threats and challenges confronting Pakistan. The exercise enables Pakistan Navy to abstract possible response options to…
The global environment of terrorism has created a worldwide disorder and insecurity by altering the traditional standards of evolving world politics. The theoretical foundations of terrorism and its conceptual association with international system have considerably shaken the well-structured and well–organized Westphalian state system. The modern state system encircled by clandestinely functioning terrorist networks is becoming…
The Republic of Turkmenistan is a “connecting hub”. Now it has also become an enterprising country where sky is the limit for high levels of socio-economic prosperity and qualitative of life. It connects Commonwealth Independent States of Central (CIS) to Caucasus and Europe and is a role model of regional connectivity. It is the leader of “energy diplomacy” in…
The new phase of Russo–Pakistani bilateral ties based on joint military exercises has added a new chapter in the history of evolving South Asian regional politics and launched an international debate. The first joint strategic venture as a result of bilateral agreements signed in December, 2014 adds two hundred military personnel to strengthen the cooperative…
