Only days after the Taliban take-over of Kabul a fresh resistance has raised its head, in the Panjshir valley. The self-proclaimed leader of this resistance movement is Amrullah Saleh, vice-president in Ghani’s toppled government. After Ghani’s cowardly flight from Afghanistan Saleh declared himself President while referring to the Afghan Constitution. However he played it safe…
The international debate on South Asian nuclear politics usually adopts an inadequate approach when examining the strategic capabilities of both India and Pakistan. The leading global academic communities try to communicate their arguments on the South Asian nuclear arms race by adopting different angles for New Delhi and Islamabad. The decades-long rivalry between India and…
Context As a direct result of the industrial revolution and emerging capitalist system, a number of powerful businesses and entrepreneurs come to the scene in the 18th,19th, and the early part of the 20thcentury. These names included giants like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J P Morgan and Marcus Goldman. They…
The least that Ebrahim Raisi should do is to curtail the powers of the unelected strata, reform the financial sector, and open up the great Persian civilisation to the outside world. Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi has a much tougher task than his predecessors as he has assumed office at a crisscrossed time of regional…
Briefings by the military high command to parliamentarians have become a regular feature in Pakistan. So the recently concluded national security meeting on 1st of July 2021 shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. If media reports are to be believed, the topics under discussion were Kashmir, Afghanistan and internal security. Going by recent chain…
Suicide Attacks At least three persons, including two children, were killed and three persons, including a Chinese national, sustained injuries in a suicide attack targeting Chinese nationals’ vehicle on the Gwadar Expressway in Gwadar District on August 20, reports ARY News. In a Twitter statement, the Balochistan Government’s spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani confirmed the blast saying it was a…
The launch of Ikram Sehgal’s published work in 12 volumes under the title “A Personal Chronicle of Pakistan” was held at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on August 05, 2021. The volumes contain the compilation of the writer’s articles published in different newspapers over the last 40 years. Ikram Sehgal, noted defence and security analyst is…
1. PROLOGUE 1.1 Evidence Based Change Climate Change (CC) is no longer a myth, it is manifested through multifarious phenomena which are either caused by nature or induced by human beings. CC Global Warming Nexus has deleterious impact on Physical, Biological and Social, Cultural, Economic, Corporate, Safety, Security, Prosperity, Interfaith & Political Environments. CC has…
Americans do not take their failures kindly and this singular factor has the potential of derailing Afghanistan’s otherwise assured journey towards peace and prosperity. Blocking access of Afghan Central Bank to Afghan national funds invested and parked in the US could only be the starting point of this nasty campaign. The head of Afghanistan’s central…
A book launching ceremony of defence analyst and Chairman Pathfinder Group Ikram Sehgal’s published work in 12 volumes titled ‘A Personal Chronicle of Pakistan’ was held at the Prime Minister’s House on August 03, 2021. Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan graced the occasion as Chief Guest. Moeed Pirzada, renowned political commentator, geo-strategic analyst and television…
