It is easy now to criticize Pakistan’s leaders of the 50s for becoming a member of the Baghdad Pact in 1954, could our armed forces have repelled any concerted attack without being equipped in the 50s and 60s with US arms and equipment, particularly with India having weapons assiduously supplied by the Soviet Union? We…
The periodic ups and downs in US-Pakistan relationship, alternating approximately in 10 years cycles since 1971, has had us going from being the “cornerstone” of US foreign policy to being its “gravestone”. Do the decision makers at our highest levels at various institutions of state have a coherent strategy in place that they do not…
James Brien Comey Jr served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for four years till fired by President Donald Trump on May 9, 2017. Trump initially claimed this was because of Comey’s mishandling of the investigation into the private email of Hillary Clinton. The overriding perception prevailing is that the real reason…
The decades long period of Soviet-American confrontation under the shadow of the Cold War marked an unending competition between Moscow and Washington. The emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev in Soviet Union and his reorientation of Moscow’s strategic position in world politics served to dismantle the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991. The dissolution of Soviet…
Recently President of Turkey H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced snap presidential and parliamentary elections, labelling it a “turning point” in the national history of his country. Justice and Development Party (AKP) has nominated Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as its candidate for the upcoming presidential election to be held on June 24, 2018. He vowed that…
A “thank you” is over due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose erratic and highhanded approach has, yet once again, internationalized the Kashmir dispute. In complete solidarity with the people of Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir, April 06 was observed as ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’. Pakistan has always forcefully and effectively taken up the matter of…
Pakistan is located in the area where major geo strategic transformation is taking place rapidly due to many factors involving US presence in Afghanistan and its future plans, US India partnership in Indian Ocean region (IOR), new emerging SCO bloc, Chinese led OBOR project in which CPEC is the critical part and rapidly magnifying independence…
The American global nuclear non-proliferation debate and its varying direction to address the nuclear ambitions of the states located at diverse regions has remained an important topic of contemporary world politics. In order to achieve the core objectives of its global non-proliferation campaign, Washington-based advocators of arms control and disarmament mainly focus on the Middle…
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR), the President of Azerbaijan H.E. Ilham Aliyev declared 2018 ‘Year of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic‘(ADR). Azerbaijan Democratic Republic has multidimensional phenomena which was achieved through continuous political struggle, nationalism and national harmony of Azerbaijanis in the 19th century. ADR was established on May 28, 1918,…
“In Turkey, we have marriage of Islam and democracy. The child of this marriage is secularism. This child gets sick from time to time. The Turkish armed forces are the doctor which saves the child. Depending on how sick the child is, we administer the necessary medicine to make sure the child recuperates”. General Cevik…
