The Supreme Court’s (SC) seriousness of purpose in the PanamaGate case was evident from the brusque manner it dismissed Hussain Nawaz’s apprehensions of “personal bias” regarding two members of the JIT. The SC’s inference was clear, the PM and his family should come clean about the money trail or face the consequences. The Sharif’s responded…
This book by the husband and wife team provides a window into the personality of an officer and gentleman, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. Brigadier ® Behram Panthaki served as ADC to Sam and Behram and Zanobia had a life long association with Sam and his family. This gives the authors a unique vantage point, they…
Due to rapidly weakening socio-economic prospects in shape of “economic/national protectionism, increasing geo-political uncertainties in terms of “unilateralism” and rapidly geo-strategic maneuverings in shape of dividing the world between “ours and others” has raised the strategic importance of “intercultural dialogue” in the world among different faiths, sects, nationalities, philosophies, civilizations and countries. It is indeed…
Turkmenistan and Pakistan celebrate 25 years of bilateral relations, both enjoying cordial relations which are characterized by bonds of historical, cultural and religious affinity and mutual respect. These are rooted deep in the hearts of the people of both the countries and both sides attach great importance to their friendship and the need to further…
The Russia’s recent diplomatic overtures towards lingering Afghan peace and its secret rapprochement with the Taliban convincingly indicate that Russia wants to play a new Great Game in Afghanistan, especially against America. In this regard, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have fully capitalised on the fateful election of Donald Trump as American president to…
These days Pakistan is facing a mini two front dilemma. The Line of Control in Kashmir and the international border with Afghanistan have gone prickly simultaneously. However there is nothing alarming, both could go only this far. Pakistan should continue to focus on degrading the capacity and capability of terrorist sleeping cells to carry out…
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad has been launched throughout the country by Pakistan’s army, it is indeed the ‘elimination of discord’ by its translation and is a reflection of strong political will to clean this soil of terrorism and its supporters. It is of course a giant step to marginalize the hidden activities of sleeper cells of so…
The international effort for the creation of a more safe and peaceful world is limiting the spread of nuclear technology by discouraging its non-peaceful utility. The control and counter of military oriented utility of nuclear technology has become an unachievable dream of a world immersed in conflicts and protracted clashes. The realist driven strategic inflexibilities…
The declining US influence in the Middle East has presumably prompted the Trump administration to militarily intervene in the festering Syrian civil war. After the chemical attack in the Syrian town of Ghouta on 21 August 2013, the US had anxiously waited for a similar attack in conflict-battered Syria so as to provide a legitimate…
Pakistan and Afghanistan are close neighbors with predominant Muslim population along with joint historic cultural linkages; however, relations between these two predominant Islamic countries were never pleasant since day one when British sub-continent was dived into two independent states, India and Pakistan. Analyzing demographically, southern and eastern Afghanistan is predominately Pashto-speaking, like the adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa,…
