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,…
Despite the complex and demanding negotiations during the tumultuous days of March 1971, a positive outcome was possible and seemed near but it came to grief because of the game plan of extremists of both the sides. The plans for military action to restore the writ of the central authority in East Pakistan was unanimous,…
Introduction Donald Trump, the US president is targeting Muslims on the pretext of the war against terrorism. He is under influence of a common myth invented after 911 by Christian fundamentalists, Neocons and Islamophobes that Islam is to be blamed for militancy and terrorism for fuelling wars. This is corollary to the earlier myth persistently…
The Economic Cooperation Organization ECO is the successor organization of RCD (Regional Cooperation for Development that was formed in 1964 leveraging the status being in American block) and was re-formed in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey under a mutual agreement to further enhance cooperation in economic, trade and tourism sectors due to border connectivity….
After the change of administration, the Afghanistan issue is once again picking up momentum in the American calculus. The month of February saw a series of high profile terrorist attacks in various urban centers of Pakistan. Linkage between the two is quite complicated and very strong and that is why in the contemporary world there…
The Heart of Central Asia, Uzbekistan will resume direct flight operations from Lahore, to Tashkent from April 5, 2017 and will launch two flights a week. Flights would operate on every Wednesday and Friday with the number of flights to be increased in the future. Previously, Uzbekistan Airways suspended flight operations to Pakistan due to…
