The real test of leadership or the character of a leader emerges only when faced with challenges emanating from the unknown. In the last quarter of 2019, all of us looked forward to the advent of the year 2020, filled with great hope and enthusiasm, to arrest all the declining numbers in the economy, both…
The India-China ensuing discord is an opportunity in disaster to collectively rewrite a new equation of delimitations and suzerainty. The region has had enough of militarism. It’s time to give peace a chance. CHINA AND INDIA are needlessly involved in border skirmishes that could hardly serve any purpose of geopolitics. Rather, it would swing in…
Pakistan Air Force Today PAF is well on the way to modernization of its fleet to the so-called 4+ generation of fighters, though half of it still includes F-7P/PG (Chinese derivatives of the early model MiG-21F) and Mirage III/5 that first flew in the mid-fifties. The Mirages have had a long service in PAF, which…
The spread of the viral disease covid-19 internationally has been recognised as a global crisis under an international health emergency. The wave of this virus and its impact on the entire globe, without sparing a single country, has created an international environment of depression and anxiety. World leaders are active around the clock in investing…
Pakistan’s Army Chief of Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah during a visit to Kabul on June 09. They discussed the ongoing peace process. The Army Chief conveyed Pakistan’s unwavering support for a sustainable peace in Afghanistan. Bajwa’s visit…
Courtiers are murmuring and the rest are shouting yet Emperor Modi refuses to see that he is without clothes. What must the rank and file of the Indian army, whose 22 comrades at arms laid down their lives trying to evict the Chinese from Ladakh, be thinking of Modi? Opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi…
Despite the ongoing pandemic hitting India more than China, India has been engaging in blunders like anti Muslim policies and the Kashmir settlement laws in the disputed area of Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) in utter disregard to UN Resolutions and international laws and norms. Force multiplying their problems Modi and his BJP Govt is now…
History teaches us that the falling apart of empires not only creates many successor states but the relation between those states and their neighbours are often marred by conflicts, conflicts that include quarrels about who is the rightful successor of the previous empire and multiple border conflicts. Furthermore, the successor states have to find for…
With apologies to Ian Fleming for paraphrasing the title, terrorism is back again in Karachi. The attack by the banned BLA at the PSX by four heavily armed terrorists has cost the lives of four people: one police officer and three guards have been martyred. Due to the decisive response of the police and the…
When an image from a fashion brand touting a model wearing a matching mask with the outfit made the media rounds, it started a huge debate. Why not? Asked many online. It was a part of our new normal now (and perhaps, a necessary part of the wardrobe to remain for a while). A greater…
