CAMERON Munter, former United States Ambassador to Pakistan, believes that Washington wants to see a redefinition of the bilateral relationship. In an exclusive interview for Defence Journal on the sidelines of Margalla Dialogue-2.0, where he was a guest participant, he remarked that the American tendency to see Pakistan through the lens of Afghanistan has led…
This scribe’s earliest memories of Yahya Khan are from the early 1960s when he arrived in Dacca as GOC 14th Division. Our dwelling then was close to the Flagstaff House with a clear view of its porch. Overview of Yahya’s early military career Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash was born in 1917 (Chakwal, West Punjab)….
A Webinar was held on 21st December, 2021 on “Argentina-Pakistan Relations over the years and its Future Aspirations” under the auspices of Karachi Council on Foreign Relations (KCFR). Chairman KCFR Ikram Sehgal hosted the session. The Plenary speaker was His Excellency Leopoldo Francisco Sahores, Ambassador of Argentina. The webinar was to be moderated by Mr….
The recent meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) communicated to the international community Pakistan’s vision for managing its regional affairs peacefully with the help of Muslim countries. The government of Pakistan called the OIC members on the issue of Afghanistan, which could become a great humanitarian crisis after the US withdrawal. Through hosting…
The world political stage has dramatically changed at a very fast pace during 2020 and 2021. The pandemic affected the global economy, rules of engagement in all spheres of life changed and political stage shifted from Europe to China and Russia followed by a chaotic withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan and the rise of…
Suicide Bombings Two persons were martyred and six others sustained injuries in a suicide bomb blast in Kamarsar area in Loy Mamond tehsil in Bajaur tribal district on Sunday, Dec 19. Bomb/IED Attacks Two Police personnel were injured in a hand-grenade attack at Mubarak Chowk in the Spiny Road area of Quetta in the night…
Sikhism is a religion originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century AD. It is one of the youngest of the major South Asian religions and the world’s fifth-largest organized religion, with about 25–30 million Sikhs as of the early 21st century. Sikhism developed from the spiritual…
Surrounded on three sides by the sea and closed in the north by high mountain ranges, the relatively segregated geographical position of the subcontinent and the strong and persistent influence of the Indian caste system have resulted in certain specifics with regard to Indian Islam. One is that the spread of Islam has been extremely…
With the largest population of Muslims in the world, Islam is the second largest religion in South Asia with about 600 million Muslims, forming about one-third of all Muslims of South Asia’s population. The dominant religion in half of the South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Pakistan), in India Islam is the second-largest religion while…
Parsis (meaning ‘Persian’) are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent whose religion is Zoroastrianism. They live chiefly in Mumbai and in a few towns and villages mostly to the south of Mumbai, but there are also a few families nearby in Karachi (Pakistan) and Chennai. There is a sizeable Parsi population in Pune as…
