Anywhere in the world both tactical and strategic nuclear forces need to have a central command channel to ensure that nuclear forces that necessarily remain on a knife edge do not inadvertently cause a catastrophe triggered by an accident. In order to have absolute control over our nuclear deterrent, an “Air Force Strategic Command” was…
IntroductionDr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) does not need any introduction to the Muslims of world in general and the Indian sub-continent in particular. Today he is revered as a respected national poet of Pakistan who not only gave the idea of a separate homeland for the Muslims of India but also actively struggled for realization of…
Among the myriad number of major problems facing the coalition in Afghanistan (and in Iraq) is infidelity, soldiers and policemen trained by US and NATO forces more often than not turning their guns many times on their own instructors and/or fellow soldiers. While some of the time it has been a spur of the moment…
Dec 16 was a day of grief for many reasons. For 43 years we spent the day in gloom remembering the abject surrender in East Pakistan in 1971. On Dec 16, 2014, something so horrible happened that words alone cannot describe it, the APS Peshawar incident brought home to the people of Pakistan the brutal…
Friday Nov 13 will go down as the day when horror visited Paris in a wave of coordinated terrorist attacks against soft targets by gunmen and suicide bombers wearing suicide vests. At least 150 people died, among them concertgoers and restaurant diners, while more than 160 were injured seven of the attackers were also killed….
Russia and Pakistan are once again being engaged through series of meaningful dialogues from defence cooperation to gas supply and from investment conference to business forum – bilateral relations between Russia and Pakistan have got momentum. Serious efforts are being carried out for further strengthening of bilateral relations through rigorous commercial diplomacy and energy cooperation….
During his recent address to the UN General Assembly, PM Nawaz Sharif had said: South Asia needs strategic stability and this requires serious dialogue to achieve nuclear restraint, conventional balance and conflict resolution. He proposed a new peace initiative, comprising four specific and feasible steps: 1) Pakistan and India formalise and respect 2003 understanding of…
H.E. Ali Santel Ambassador of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) in Pakistan is an experienced diplomat. He has vast experience in international relations. He has rich experience of trade and commerce too. He has firm belief in commercial diplomacy. He is working hard for the further strengthening of bilateral relations through greater socio-economic integration,…
For a president who wanted to leave the Middle East behind so that he could focus on other pressing issues—such as the much-publicised ‘rebalancing’ to the Asia–Pacific—Barack Obama wasn’t dealt the best of hands. However, in the case of Syria, a country which has suffered horrendously for the last four years—over 250,000 people have died,…
On August 16, 2015, Punjab Home Minister Colonel ® Shuja Khanzada was killed in a suicide attack in his hometown of Shadi Khan in Attock. He belonged to a military family and several family members served in the British Indian army and junior civil service; his grandfather Subedar Major and Honorary Captain Ajaib Khan had…
