It is always said that table diplomacy is the effective art for avoiding wars and conflicts. If table diplomacy fails then the decision will always be made in battle grounds. In this scenario, each country has its own priorities in regards to foreign policy and diplomacy influenced domain since the creation of nation states after…
Former Interior Minister Ch. Nisar Ali khan mentioned many times about an ongoing conspiracy against Pakistan since past few years from regional and distant enemies. Although he didn’t elaborate much regarding the nature of that conspiracy but the level of the seriousness and confidentiality was such that only a few people had knowledge of such…
The rapidly changing and developing geopolitics around IOR and Gulf/Arabian Seas raise some serious challenges and concerns for Pakistan navy for protecting Pakistan’s seaward interests. Some challenges were mentioned before in recent articles like handling Indian hegemony, preventing maritime terrorism, Seaward Economy considering China Pakistan Economic Corridor and Protecting 290,000 Square kilometer stretched extended exclusive…
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 geographic and economic importance of Iran is a key factor that must be considered thoroughly in our defence doctrine. Iran is the southwestern neighbor of Pakistan and an Islamic country that has deep cultural, historic and religious roots with Pakistan. This is a large country, about 1.5 times the size of Pakistan with a…
In my last article on the subject, I had elaborated some measures to be taken to manage Afghanistan in a more strategic and collaborative way. The said measures were, inter-parliamentary delegations exchange, engagement with Central Asian States for influencing Kabul regime, infrastructure development support, managing land locked status for transit trade, encouraging and leveraging the…
As discussed in previous articles on the same subject that current economic and geo political scenario elaborates a huge role for Pakistan navy that has the responsibility to safeguard the economic and security interests of Pakistan in light of CPEC project for maritime commerce, protection and exploration of Pakistan’s Exclusive Economic Zone plus extended continental…
In Jan 2005, almost 13 years ago, my first book published under the title “Pakistan’s defence and nuclear doctrine” was launched by Mohammad Ijaz ul Haq (then federal minister for religious affairs) and Major General (Retd) Rahat Latif. The compilation of such book during that critical period was considered to be the need of time…
Pakistan’s strategic location and its predominant critical and geographical proximity have made it a natural attraction for regional and global players in the current changing political paradigm. Being located in the globe adjacent to the most important and busy maritime trade routes like the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al Mandab, its further connection with…
My personal belief is firm in this saying that “Offense is the best defense” and this has been very truly applied and exercised during the 1980 era Afghan war. There have been thousands of articles, books and analysis published to cover that war and everyone has probably his own reason to take the credit but…
