“Drones kill innocent people and aggravate hatred” Former American President Jimmy Carter1 IntroductionOn 1st of July 2016 US President Obama signed the executive order “United States policy on pre- and post-strike measures to address civilian casualties in US operations involving the use of force.” The initiative formalized and discussed the American policy towards dead and…
During his June 2015 visit to Bangladesh, Modi made a startling confession of an otherwise known reality that Bangladesh came into being largely due to Indian covert support to separatist elements and overt military aggression. India has never reconciled to the reality of creation of Pakistan. Irrespective of the party in power, there has been…
Presidential Election was held on December 4, 2016 in Uzbekistan; according to Uzbekistan’s Central Election Commission acting President and Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev won the election with 88.6 percent of the vote which is 1.51 percent more than what late Islam Karimov got when he was first elected president in 1991. Uzbek Central Election CommissionAccording…
IntroductionEvery year on 12th of Rabi-ul-Awal (Islamic lunar month) majority of Muslims all over the world celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) as a token of love. This year coincidently this event was on 12-12-2016. Muslims love their Prophet more than anyone else. He had such an amazing personality that even his arch rivals…
This article is dedicated to the valiant officers and men of the Pakistan Navy who continue to demonstrate unconquerable courage and stand as an impregnable wall both at sea and ashore against the sadistic and callous architects of terrorism. “If anyone slew a person unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the…
Nothing encapsulates and perhaps embodies the spirit of globalisation better than world trade, most of which is carried out via the medium of the sea. Maritime trade can thus be said to be the pivot around which the global economy as well as our collective social well-being actually revolves. The enormous natural resources on land,…
The evolving strategic competition between the great powers introduces the counterbalancing forces emerging from different states. The ongoing and unending struggle to dominate the world by expanding the political sphere of influence has remained an undeniable feature of a state’s foreign policy which rarely supports the status quo in international system. Irrefutable forces of wars…
IntroductionWhatever problem you may speak about or whatever arguments you may use to prove a stance, only facts can be the best solution in a discussion. Why? Because they are undeniable. The Afghanistan intervention beginning with the War on Terror supplemented by the 2001 Operation Enduring Freedom has become the longest war in US history…
IntroductionThe US still wields considerable economic power and possesses unmatchable military potency at the international level. The entire world closely watched the debates between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican hopeful Donald Trump for the most powerful position in the world, the US President. The hawkish and incendiary language of firebrand Trump against China, Russia…
Donald Trump’s victory has caught the World by its throat, and in all likelihood, we are in for interesting times. The first post-election Trump-Obama summit showed a grim looking Obama trying to put up a brave face. Every analyst is busy in separating Donald J Trump’s electoral rhetoric into pursuable and abandon-able categories. However, his…
