Operation Decisive Strom led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its 10 coalition partners against the Shia sponsored and trained Houthi militants in Yemen is going through air strikes. Riyadh, Islamabad, Istanbul, Tehran and Cairo are very busy in the lengthy spells of diplomatic activities. Stakes of socio-economic bounties, geo-political superiority and geo-strategic maneuverings…
The Race towards NuclearizationPakistan’s quest for attaining nuclear weapons was solely driven by India. When ‘Buddha smiled’ in the Indian Pokhran in 1974, achieving nuclear weapons parity with its arch enemy for the beleaguered nation that had not yet fully recovered from the 1971 split became an obsession. There was across the board near unanimity…
Over the last few decades Pakistan has gone through a major paradigm shift, both within its strategic placement within the region and with its allies all over the globe. Some of the major breakthroughs that the country has experienced is its increased presence as the “Underdog” in world politics- as the key player in the…
On the invitation of Ilham Aliyev President of Azerbaijan, President Mamnoon Hussain visited Azerbaijan in March this year. In order to further deepen bilateral relations through economic integration a delegation of businessmen representing leading companies of Pakistan in the field of energy, textile, pharmaceuticals, sports, infrastructure, construction material surgical instruments, food products, etc, etc also…
IntroductionWhile turmoil and anarchy in the Middle East can be attributed to the disunity among Arabs, the possibility of execution of well known Zionist plans to divide the Middle East in fragmented states cannot be ruled out. The “Bernard Lewis Plan” named after its architect Bernard Lewis, a specialist in ‘oriental studies’, the ‘history of…
IntroductionSeventy years ago I had joined 7/2 Punjab Regt (now part of the Indian Army) in Arakan (Burma). This was a newly raised battalion consisting of mostly young soldiers who had carried out only basic training. Even most of the senior NCSs had not participated in any battle, except some had experience of Frontier warfare….
Following the resumption of foreign secretary level talks between India and Pakistan, the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan briefed the ambassadors of P-5 countries and the EU Mission, stationed in Islamabad, regarding the visit of Indian Foreign Secretary. India had characterized it as a visit in the context of SAARC; Pakistan portrayed it as a visit…
“There is a general agreement that the world order is changing, but considerable disagreement about how it is changing. Communicators variously locate this change in a ‘power shift’ from West to East, a trade in superpower status between the United States and China, or a transition from an era of biography to one of uni-polarity,…
The 12th International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) 2015 were held in UAE, Abu Dhabi during February 22-26, 2012. According to official of IDEX around 1,200 companies from 56 countries, 159 official delegations, 100,000 visitors and18 exhibitors were present, representing the strength of international business competition in the growing market of the Middle East. According…
IntroductionPrime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto pronounced his self-styled “revolutionary” administrative reforms, the basic purpose of which was to disestablish the system of “service cadres” introduced by the British in the eighteenth century and later on introduced in Pakistan, with certain modifications, subsequent to partition.1 One motive underlying such disestablishment however was the intent to weaken…
