Azerbaijan has become an ideal tourist destination due to the its increasingly growing influence in the global tourism market. It has become darling of the East and confront zone for the West. It is full of natural surprises, super lands, beauty and best hospitality. It is indeed a wonder land where secretes of nature converge…
Suicide Bombings At least eight people, including five Police officials and three civilians, were killed and 24 others injured in an suicide attack targeting an Elite Force van parked near Gate – 2 of Data Darbar [shrine of Lahore’s patron saint Syed Ali Hajwairi popularly known as {Data Gunj Bakhsh] in Lahore at 8:45am on…
had aspired for a US$ 12 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it got only 50 percent. And out of this US$ 5.8 billion will shortly be recycled to IMF as repayment of its earlier loans. Pakistan’s economic managers will have hard time prioritizing the usage of remaining US$200 million! Technically one…
Dear Readers, The references of misconduct filed by the federal government against SC Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Karim Khan Agha of Sindh High Court triggered protests by a section of the legal fraternity. The judges were accused of allegedly hiding properties abroad which were not declared in their tax returns. The legal fraternity boycotted…
In this era of uncertainty, insurgency and terrorism are hotly debated notions. Although they may be similar in language, but they are completely different in reality. While discussing both, previous op-ed in this series has defined insurgency as a policy which highlights the power asymmetry between two aggressive and belligerent groups where the objective of…
Abstract India is known to have been pursuing a long-term three-stage nuclear energy program for many decades which is essentially, at the first stage, planned to build a breed of heavy water power reactors that would generate Plutonium to fuel breeder reactors, and then it would build another breed of advanced heavy water reactor which…
The earlier decision to postpone the National Assembly session scheduled for 3 March had been met with extreme derision and wide-spread anger in East Pakistan. Hartals (general strikes) all over the province were ordered by the Awami League, and Mujib made it clear that the postponement decision would not go unchallenged. Behind the scenes, though,…
Introduction Terrorism is a global menace, not restricted to any one race, religion, faith or country. Recently the world witnessed the massacre of Muslim worshippers in New Zealand, followed by another massacre of Christian worshippers on Easter in Sri Lanka. The attack on a Synagogue in the USA is another form of racism, hatred, discrimination and…
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas Pipeline has once again become significant because of the emerging socio-economic, geopolitical and geostrategic developments in the region. Re-imposition of US sanctions on Iran has debarred other countries not to trade with Iran, escalating tensions between the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) and Iran and above all economic meltdown…
Narendra Modi has scored an expected, yet dramatic, election victory. Modi is the first non-Congress prime minister in India to return to power after a full five-year term. It was a well participated election; about 67 percent of more than 900 million eligible voters cast their ballots. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) contested the election on…
