Context It’s no secret that the technology and communication revolution has caused manifold socio political consequences. While there have been many advantages, these advancements are also producing numerous headaches for the existing political, economic, and security systems that were meant to preserve order. Change is inherently dynamic but overtime is slowed down by the human…
In recent news, the European External Action Service’s East StratCom (the EU Disinformation Task Force) revealed that the website, Eptoday.com, apparently a self-proclaimed magazine for the European Parliament in Brussels, had been republishing a large amount of news. Amongst its content was a large number of articles geared to be related to minorities in Pakistan…
Perhaps, never before in the last 72 years of our existence have we made our neighbour as happy as we have done in the last eight weeks. We gave Diwali and post Diwali presents to the Indians, who were first jubilant on the manner in which our current army Chief’s extension in service was publicly…
‘Being a friend of the United States is like living on the banks of a great river. The soil is wonderfully fertile, but every four or eight years the river changes course, and you may find yourself alone in a desert’. Pakistan’s army chief and President General Muhammad Zia ul Haq to CIA director William…
Three centuries ago, the area now comprising Bangladesh was renowned as the bread basket of India, multiple increases in population later, Kissinger called Bangladesh an “international basket case” in the 1970s. Starting from the 1942 food famine, this has been a sorry litany of natural and man made disasters, the poor Bangladeshis have been on…
Airstrikes were called in on December 11, as Taliban attempted to breach Bagram Air Base, considered as the ultimate bastion of American military power in Afghanistan. After 18 years and over $1 trillion dollars in US taxpayer money spent on the war, the Taliban are now at their strongest and control or hold sway at…
Today virtually no one can stop Hussain Haqqani etal and BLA like organisations from making so called anti Pakistan statements. Even though the press and electronic media may not carry these, social media is a wide open arena for anyone to write and say anything. This is also exasperated by the three democratisations of globalisation…
The Balakot strike by IAF on 26 February 2019, and PAF’s ‘Swift Retort’ a day later, can be considered watershed events in modern aerial warfare. Though the IAF strike was beset with technical snags, including failure of stand-off bombs to guide themselves to the target due to faulty terrain elevation data, it was able to…
US-Iran continued belligerence has fueled power politics in the Middle East and MENA. Now power politics is at its peak which has very serious repercussions and spillover ramifications. The two divergent forces are pushing each other in opposite directions through their symbolic and stylish gestures and posturing. It got momentum after the assassination of Iranian…
The Kashmir territorial dispute has been the apple of discord between the two South Asian nuclear powers, India and Pakistan. Ominously, after the abrogation of article 370 and sub clause 35 A by New Delhi, the Kashmir dispute has morphed into a more threatening volcano; possible eruption of this dormant volcano could lead to an…
