Pakistan Navy has been hosting Multinational Naval Exercise AMAN biennially since 2007 which has a global outlook. With AMAN Exercise PN seeks to enhance interoperability between regional and extra regional navies as a means of promoting peace and stability in the Indian Ocean Region and beyond. This Exercise also provides a unique training opportunity to…
Context As In the increasing global volatility the US had come to symbolize stability and continuity. However, the election of Donald Trump signifies this would no longer be the case. The unfolding reality has created a new level of uncertainty in world affairs, especially for allies under NATO and the European Union (EU). The EU…
Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohamed Al Qasimi, the sixth edition of the International Government Communication Forum (IGCF 2017) was officially inaugurated on March 22, 2017 at Expo Centre Sharjah. Keeping in view different current issues confronting with sustainable development, climate change, public-private partnership, community development, and the last but not…
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent; but it takes a touch of genius and lots of courage to move something in the opposite direction.”Albert Einstein The Government of Pakistan announced that it has given a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to recently retired Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General ®…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide Bombings/AttacksOne Frontier Constabulary (FCB) soldier was killed and another injured in a suicide attack on an FC training centre in Shabqadar area town of Charsadda District on March 17, reports Dawn. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the attack was “foiled” and two suicide bombers were killed in retaliatory fire….
Introduction The main idea of this article is to highlight the emerging tendency in the security and political spectrum of the USA, which in view of the writer, would bring clandestine and covert intelligence havoc in Afghanistan resulting in political instability and chaos, particularly in Iran and Pakistan. If the scenario becomes real then there…
Among the decisions by the Supreme Court (SC) in the NAB case last Friday was the verdict de-notifying three NAB Regional Heads. Strictly according to the rules of law they had reason to give their draconian decision but the Honourable Judges could have equated the grey areas in the circumstances of their appointments by taking…
India has long cherished the dream of becoming a hegemonic power in the region, to achieve regional preponderance; New Delhi has employed both soft and hard power to bring all the peripheral South Asian countries under its military and economic influence. For India, economically and militarily rising Pakistan has continued to pose a potential threat…
Twenty four years of shared history between the eastern and western wings of Pakistan preceded the violent emergence of Bangladesh on a groundswell of hate and bitterness on 16 Dec 1971. Yet a little more than 2 years later when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto visited Dhaka in 1974 at the invitation of Shaikh Mujib-ur Rahman, he…
Writing in the New York Times (NYT), Amanda Taub and Max Fisher talked about shadowy networks within govt bureaucracies, referred to as “Deep States”, undermining and coercing elected govts very much like the spate of leaks be-devilling the Trump Administration. They compared the present situation in the US to countries like Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan,…
