The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC-6) has enjoyed a unique socio-economic, geo-political and geo-strategic position in the Middle East and MENA region. Its huge oil and gas reservoirs have the potential to rock the entire world. Its investment preferences and expenditures have ability to bring prosperity and stability in the regional and global economies. At the…
Since 1950s, Pakistani governments, both military and civilian have been fatally addicted to US financial assistance. Pakistani rulers have always been ready to bend backwards to receive another dose of US aid. Hillary Clinton and Admiral Mullen were certainly not short of affirmatively nodding audiences during their recent visit to Pakistan. However, at a common…
The May 22nd terrorist attack on the Mehran naval air base has sent shock waves across Pakistan, which are likely to reverberate for years to come. Civilians in general and the armed forces in particular, have realized with growing pain and despondency that the terrorists could enter and destroy with minimum losses the most vital…
Dear Readers, With the death of Osama bin Laden the world must start refocusing attention to building up Pakistan’s capacity to prevent and combat violent extremism. One of the underlying factors that have pushed Pakistan to the front line of the war on terrorism is the nexus between transnational crime, poverty, and terrorism. Perhaps no…
Combined effort of PATHFINDER GROUP Task Force Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide BombingsThe police on May 5 claimed to have thwarted a suicide bombing bid and killed two would-be bombers riding an explosives-laden vehicle near Sabu village on the Zhob Road, official sources said. The sources said that acting on a tip-off, District Police Officer…
Any earthly reason why the Pakistani populace should be deprived of their legitimate right to hear (and witness) what is financially in store for them for the coming year? The Opposition has every right to protest using Parliamentary practices procedures (and language thereof), the modus operandi was abhorrent. The National Assembly floor is “Hallowed Ground”…
The Pokhran nuclear explosions by India on 11 and 13 May 1998 plunged Pakistan into a “damned if you will, damned if you don’t” crisis. The gloating rhetoric and venom flowing out of the BJP leadership than governing India was startling, if not altogether shocking. Clearly intent on rubbing our noses in the dirt, their…
Throughout the cold war the US projected communism as the greater threat to Pakistan’s existence than India. Both in 1965 and 1971, the US “tilted” more towards Pakistan than India, when the chips were down we did not manage to get much more than tea and sympathy. With sanctions imposed after the 1965 war on…
Towards the fag end of his unenviable military career, a representative of the Bush legacy Admiral Mike Mullen was recently overwhelmed by pre-retirement syndrome and though it fit to assume the title of supreme commander of the Pakistani armed forces while declaring it to the American media that Pakistan is about to launch an offensive…
No 32 Fighter Ground Attack Wing at Masroor was a large composite Unit, half of whose assets had been moved to the northern bases. What remained of the fighter units included No 19 Squadron with a healthy count of 26 F-86E/F [1]. No 9 Squadron moved in from Sargodha on 6 December with 7 F-104As,…
