The international intellectual debates of non-proliferation politics usually adopt a critical framework for examining South Asian politics where the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapon capabilities have intensified the regional security environment of South Asia. The evolving complex regional security environment of the nuclearized subcontinent always remained dependant on the New Delhi-Islamabad strategic completion, which attracts…
Context The historical parallels are important in developing perspectives on present-day conundrums. They provide an illustration of where matters were and how they were dealt with at the time. Not only that they also provide historical continuity and help grasp the future course. Consider the following excerpt from Allama Iqbal’s “Reconstruction of Religious Thought in…
Thanks, Sir. I think you got it right about potential risks for the region. I know that in polite conversations, these topics are not discussed but in the real and cruel world people talk about their dreams and delusions and it is directly proportional to the level of their knowledge or ignorance. This has been at least…
Mark Twain, the greatest American humorist, said, “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” Though he lived and died before World War-I, he was prophetic in essence. The post-exit scenario of the United States from Afghanistan is a perfect case study as to how a theatre of civilization, and subsequently a superpower, doomed…
A Webinar was held on 14th October, 2021 on “Nigeria Pakistan Relations and Future Aspirations” under the auspices of Karachi Council on Foreign Relations (KCFR). Chairman KCFR Ikram Sehgal hosted the session. The Plenary speaker was His Excellency Abioye Mohammed Bello, High Commissioner of Nigeria. The webinar was moderated by Commodore (Retd) Sadeed Anwar Malik,…
The American quest for undermining the economic rise of China has resulted in various multilateral strategic agreements with different states having similar strategic intentions. The formulation of an anti-China alliance within the western bloc has recently introduced a US-sponsored trilateral framework agreement with Australia and United Kingdom (UK) in the fields of defence, security, and…
Pakistan and Afghanistan are next door neighbors with predominant Muslim populations along with joint historic cultural linkages; however, the relations between these two predominant Islamic countries were never pleasant since day one. Analyzing demographically, southern and eastern Afghanistan is predominately Pashto-speaking, like the adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the Tribal Areas, and northern Baluchistan regions in Pakistan. This…
Suicide Bombings/Attacks 47 persons killed in a suicide attack in Kunduz Province On October 8, 2021, 47 persons, including 46 Hazara Shia worshipers were killed when an Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) suicide bomber detonated at Sayyidabad mosque in the Khanabad Bandar area of Kunduz city Kunduz, reports Associated Press. ISKP identified the bomber as a…
If Bangladesh’s problems were confined to over-population and natural disasters that retard economic growth, it would be bad enough, but the problem is that Bangladesh has the world’s only predator nation, India, at its doorstep. Other nations do try and impose hegemony, India occupies territory by force of arms. Instead of helping to alleviate the miseries…
Introduction The Jews and Christians got astray due to abandoning the Books of God and following the invented beliefs and Bida’a[1]. Hence Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) was averse to following the practices of Jews and Christians and he categorically warned the Muslims to refrain from such practices repeatedly. The Hadith narrating the most important reason of “Hadith-Book” prohibition…
