Kazakhstan, the largest economy in Central Asia has once again surprised the world by adopting a wise political change/ move to safeguard its system and its continuity. Nursultan Nazarbayev the former president who served for 30 years recently announced his resignation from the presidency in a televised speech and transferred his powers to Chairman of…
India often believes that Pakistan lives under the shadow of its superior military prowess. Boasting on numerical ascendency, India looks at Pakistan through the lens of, what I call, “perpetuated grandiosity” i.e. reducing Pakistan and its military capability to an “incapacitated flutter’. This estimation is rooted deep in the Indian strategic community’s belief that India’s…
The US and Afghan Taliban negotiators wrapped up their latest round of marathon peace talks on March 12 with “real strides” made but no agreement on a timetable for troop withdrawal, the US special envoy Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said. He divulged that the next step would be discussions in Washington, adding that “there is no…
Context While the Pakistan-India tensions are known to flare up occasionally, the present one over the February 14 Pulwama incident has calmed down for the time being. However, in the absence of any political dialogue related to Kashmir, there is likely to be a next episode. Most assessments of the incident have examined the conflagration…
In the early hours of March 15, 2019 Brigadier (R) Asad Munir committed suicide. In his suicide note, he mentioned harassment by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Thus, extinguished the flicker of light of a fine officer and gentleman. I have known Asad for about ten years when in 2009 he contacted me. A few…
Explaining Islam in Brief Once Shaikh Ali Tantawi asked his students the following question: “If a non-Muslim asks you to explain all about Islam in an hour, what you would do?” This is how they responded: “That: would be impossible! He would have to study the principle of the Oneness of God, commentaries on the…
Introduction The currently implemented education system of Pakistan has reached to its final limits and it is now bound to be changed. One of the biggest practical issue in this system is that, the system is producing 16 years old fully grown-up boy/ girl who does not know how to survive in this world even…
Azerbaijan has been striving hard to get back its illegally occupied areas from Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh has been swinging between circles of hope and despair for many visible reasons and invisible compulsions. 27 years have passed but still chances of its resolution appear remote. Although it has been decades since the massacre took place, those responsible…
In the wake of hostilities in Rann of Kutch, the PAF Air Headquarters decided to review its war plans as the threat of a wider conflagration loomed. Though the PAF and the IAFC-in-Cs had tacitly agreed not to use their air forces in Kutch which was a bizarre arrangement worked out over a phone call…
The 8th edition of the International Government Communication Forum (IGCF) was held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohamed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah that took place at the Expo Centre Sharjah on March 20-21, 2019. Sharjah Forum 2019 The Sharjah forum asserted that the responsibility of…
