Historical Overview Pakistan’s strategic location, its predominant religious affinity, critical geographical proximity as well as continuous efforts by Pakistani expatriate population to develop infrastructure and other institutions have made it a natural ally of the neighboring Gulf States. There are socio-political factors that make Pakistan the obvious choice for the Gulf rulers to safeguard security…
Historical Overview The traditional military set ups and doctrines in the Middle east, Central Asia and the Subcontinent were laid out on land based forces and war operations were carried out mainly considering this unilateral land based approach. Many historic warriors like Gangis khan, Taimurlen, the subcontinent Mughals were adopting and depending mainly on land…
Iran is the southwestern neighbor of Pakistan and an Islamic country that has deep cultural, historic and religious roots with Pakistan. This is a fairly large country, about 1.5 times the size of Pakistan with a population of 83 million. Iran is an oil rich country having borders with Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, some of…
Pakistan and Afghanistan are close neighbors with predominant Muslim population along with joint historic cultural linkages; however, relations between these two predominant Islamic countries were never pleasant since day one when British sub-continent was dived into two independent states, India and Pakistan. Analyzing demographically, southern and eastern Afghanistan is predominately Pashto-speaking, like the adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa,…
The Economic Cooperation Organization ECO is the successor organization of RCD (Regional Cooperation for Development that was formed in 1964 leveraging the status being in American block) and was re-formed in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey under a mutual agreement to further enhance cooperation in economic, trade and tourism sectors due to border connectivity….
Pakistan is located adjacent to the most important maritime trade routes such as the Straits of Hormuz and Bab Almandab. Not only these two choke points, but its connection with Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba made it lot more visible for global Navies and especially for Pakistan Navy In terms of its naval…
Diplomacy is the art of conducting negotiations between countries or state representatives regarding issues like peace-making in a conflict zone, mutual trade, war, economics, culture, environment, human rights, international treaties, etc. Informally, diplomacy means effective employment of tactics to achieve strategic advantages or to find mutually acceptable solutions to a common challenge. This article will…
