Turkmenistan is blessed with huge natural reservoirs and resources in shape of oil and gas and other precious metals. Moreover, its export-oriented energy policy makes it one of the ideal countries in the Central Asian countries and the world to do businesses. Its outstanding commercial diplomacy holds the secret of its high ratios of exports….
“War is uncertainty, characterized by friction, chance and disorder”. Clausewitz From 2003 to 2008, for a variety of reasons, the Pakistani state gradually lost control over the federally administered tribal areas. The reasons were more related to strategic myopia at the highest level rather than strength of the militants. It took a while before the…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide bombingsAt least 72 people were killed and more than 300 injured when a suicide bomb ripped through the parking space in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park situated near Allama Iqbal Town in provincial capital Lahore on March 27 when Christians were celebrating Easter, reports The Express Tribune. Jama’at-ul-Ahrar (JuA, Group of the Free),…
Two recent exposures have hit India badly: likelihood of attack on Indian Air Force Station Pathankot turning out as a false flag operation orchestrated by Indian intelligence agencies under the able tutelage of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, and the Kulbhushan Jadhav saga. Both have brought embarrassment to India. The world is now better aware…
One must admire Mian Nawaz Sharif (MNS) about how unlike Shahbaz Sharif he managed through the years to keep his immediate family out of political sight, and thus out of public mind. Begum Kulsoom Nawaz was very effective campaigning for MNS’ freedom during his incarceration by Musharraf, once MNS was into political exile she went…
Any U.S. presidential election comes with its own surprises but the 2016 presidential race is not only drawing attention and quite a bit of controversy in the United States – it is being watched very closely all over the world. The candidates and the issues being discussed by them will have far reaching effects, not…
Trying to portray business as usual, the rich and the powerful identified in the PANAMA LEAKS are scrambling for cover across the world. The history of “Commissions” in Pakistan does not inspire confidence. Their findings have always been kept under tight wraps until being leaked (Abbottabad and Hamoodur Rahman Commission Reports). The secrecy of the Munir…
Instead of taking the high road, using the opportunity to deal pragmatically with the “Panama Leaks” explaining how and why his family’s offshore companies and accounts thereof had come into existence, PM Mian Nawaz Sharif (MNS) seriously disappointed the nation by choosing to go the “fog of politics” route. Instead of exercising good sense he…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made great strides against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). It has already initiated legal, political, economic and strategic measures to marginalize the ISIS in the region and around the globe. Its “Anti-Terrorism Strategy” has been rated the best to fight against looming threat of terrorism. Saudi…
IntroductionThis is the most important lecture by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, sixth in the book “Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam”. In fact the idea behind the whole work put across in the famous work revolves around it. It is in this lecture that Iqbal urges the need for modernization in Islamic thought. “The principle of movement…
