Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide bombingsAt least 12 people, including three Policemen, were injured in suicide bombing near the City Police Station in Mardan District on May 30, reports Daily Times. According to Mardan Regional Police Officer (RPO) Tahir Khan, the bomber was about to target a Police vehicle standing outside the City Police Station…
Turkey’s coup was foiled and failed with the resolve of its leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and people. It was a victory of ballot over bullet and commitment of its all political parties including the opposition not to welcome military junta to control the governance. It was die hard support of all the civilian institutions to…
With India’s visibly anti-American membership of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) during the four decades Cold War era, its tilt towards Russia was well documented. Pakistan being allied with the US, India used NAM to subject us to scorn as a paid US lackey throughout the third world. India is now enjoying the best of both…
IntroductionThis is the last article of the series, summarizing exploration of “Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam”, a compilation of lectures by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal. This work gives some insight to the philosophic thought of Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, the great poet, philosopher and thinker. He proposed an innovative solution to the challenges faced by Muslims of present…
The term maritime security essentially implies being safe against all forms of sea based threats, including threats from non-state actors and the conventional state based forces. The concept is not only vast but multidimensional. It spans conventional maritime security issues, like state sovereignty concerns, territorial disputes, to more non-traditional maritime security problems such as piracy,…
For centuries, inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula have been navigating the Indian Ocean in pursuit of new resources and opportunities but their knowledge of the oceans remained localized and limited only to trade winds and monsoonal phenomenon. With passage of time, as long distance mariners ventured beyond continental shelf to where blue…
Positioned at a geo-politically sensitive crossroads, Pakistan has since the 50s served off and on as a “cornerstone of US policy” in the Middle and Near East, joining the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) in 1954. With Iraq opting out in 1958, the US-sponsored “Baghdad Pact” (1955) became the now-defunct (1979) Central Treaty Organization…
More than 1000 Muslims were killed and over 100,000 displaced because police stood by and did nothing to stop the massacre during the Gujarat riots in 2002. Ransacking the home of Congress MLA Ehsan Jafri, rioters killed him and other 70 Muslims taking refuge at his house. They then burned and mutilated Jafri’s body. (Then)…
Advocating western policies to moderate extreme nationalistic and anti-western feelings in the face of Soviet Union’s domination of its neighbours, Pakistan enthusiastically joined the US-sponsored Baghdad Pact (re-named CENTO after Iraq left) and SEATO to contain Soviet advance southwards in Asia. With India refusing to be part of any US Alliance, its opposition to the…
Turkey and Pakistan share striking similarities when it comes to civil-military relationship. While Turkey was undergoing the botched up coup, here a little known political party “Move on Pakistan” was under focus for popping up posters, asking the military to take over, these poster were seen in all major cities of Pakistan two to three…
