Dear Readers, Last year the “Swiss Leaks”, a veritable “Who’s who” of over 100000 clients globally holding 30000 accounts with HSBC in Geneva revealed massive tax avoidance. Now we have the Panama Papers, a massive leak of 11.5 million files from the database of a single offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca wherein Is shown how…
Following Senator Ted Cruz’s much expected defeat of Donald Trump in the 5 April Wisconsin primary, Trump’s goal of winning the majority of delegates by the time the Republican Party holds its convention in July has now become even more elusive. Although the odds of becoming his party’s presidential candidate are against him, it’s still…
Alfred Mahan and Sir Halford Mackinder were both highly respected geopolitical theorists and contemporaries in the 19th century. While Mahan is better known for his emphasis on maritime power interplay between occidental and oriental global framework, Mackinder is famous for his ‘Heartland Theory’ which stipulated that rule over largest landmass would become the basis for…
General John W. Nicholson Jr. took command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan on 02 March 2016. His father General John Nicholson also served as general officer of United States army. John’s career in the U.S. army followed the usual path of other fellow general officers; however, he has some qualities which put him above his…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide bombings A teenage suicide bomber killed at least 17 people, including six women, two children and two Policemen, and injured 23 others at a court complex in Shabqadar tehsil (revenue unit) of Charsadda District on March 7 in what a Taliban faction called revenge for last week’s hanging of Mumtaz…
Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani was so upset at Musharraf leaving the country, he asked Parliament to amend the Constitution and undo Article 6 pertaining to treason “since it had not only failed to protect the Constitution but parliament and democracy as well”. Treason is defined as either “the betrayal of one’s own country by waging…
Explosives packed with ball bearings, nails, iron filings, etc. ripped through the families gathered in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore to celebrate Easter Sunday on March 27, taking more than 70 lives (including 29 children) and 300 injured, among them an unusually high number of women and children. Claiming responsibility for the horror, a splinter…
IntroductionThe global threat to world security in the first half of the 20th century emanated principally from the European powers and Japan as they fought for control of resources by protecting/expanding the lands they had colonized in Asia and Africa. Two great wars were fought during the period where power projection was the casus belli…
The quality of the lives of the “great silent majority” has deteriorated substantially even as a privileged few have become rich beyond compare. The disparity between the haves and have-nots has widened substantially, with the percentage of the nation’s poor rising from 23% to 40% the middle class has virtually been wiped out. Seething public…
For much of South Asia and the region surrounding the Indian Ocean, the New Year began on an inauspicious note. The respite following the sudden sojourn of the Indian PM to Pakistan last December and brief engagement with his counterpart in Islamabad was short lived. The terror attack on the Indian airbase at Pathankot in…
