Despite crude threats by the United States, the comity of nations expressed over-whelming global sentiment in favour of the Palestinian people through 129-8 UN General Assembly resolution. The Middle East is entering the culminating phase of post-Cold War American vision about this region Israel pliant Middle East. Trump’s announcement of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital…
While President Trump was touring part of Asia, his wish to entice India and Pakistan “to talk” echoed once again in the mainstream media; this has been his well-articulated electoral promise as well. The Trump administration hopes that better relations between India and Pakistan would allow it to focus on Afghanistan. A fresh, behind the…
President Donald Trump’s visit to a portion of Asia presents an interesting case study in statecraft. Packaging of countries for the visit included China, and some of the countries America wants to employ for containing China—Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines. The tour had three driving objectives: to enhance reciprocity in commercial activities, to…
All of a sudden it has dawned upon the Trump administration that China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) project passes through ‘disputed territory’, hence the US must oppose it. For quite some time, China phobia has paralyzed rational thinking in the US policy making circles, the malice is bipartisan. Earlier Obama had also opposed setting…
The four-nation,Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) talks on exploring ways to revive peace process in Afghanistan were held in Oman on October 16. The parleys ended without any breakthrough and the participants—Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States preferred to stay quiet over the event and no joint statement was issued. The QCG had held its…
The Birth place of the Red Cross, the League of Nations, home to the United Nations and instrumental in conclusion of numerous anti-war laws, accords, treaties etc. Switzerland is a neutral country, its neutrality was established under the Treaty of Paris in 1815. It is the oldest neutral country in the world and it has…
Though it’s a lost cause, India is struggling to cook up a story before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hoping that the ICJ will ask Pakistan to release Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, a 48-year old on-duty Indian navy officer of the rank of Commander working for Indian spy agency RAW. Jadhav alias Hussein Mubarak…
Thing are back in full circle for Afghanistan, it is heading for a third resource surge. True to tradition of typical military leadership, the Pentagon has been able to rope in President Donald Trump over the idea that victory is just a few thousand troops, a few war machines and couple of more powerful munitions…
The United States and its Western allies have vast economic and political interests in the Gulf. While Saudi Arabia is a key US ally, Qatar is home to the US military’s largest air base in the region, Al-Udeid, rival Bahrain houses the US Navy Fifth Fleet. Cumulatively the Gulf region produces 20 percent of the…
As usual, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has blamed Pakistan for a series of bombing attacks in Kabul during recent days. Instead of focusing on capacity building of Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), the dysfunctional Afghan government feels it convenient to vent anti-Pakistan venom and go into another slumber till the next attack. An emerging strategy…
