Humans are living in a more unsafe and insecure world in contemporary times. aside from the traditional military issues and nuclear threats, developing Pakistan is beset by some serious non-traditional security threats. These threats are water scarcity, population explosion, low human progress, rising food insecurity, climate change, unpredictable recurrent natural calamities, widespread infectious and fatal…
Even a cursory glimpse at the human history would easily detect that the history is brimful of many destructive wars, namely the wars of Panipat, the American Civil War, the World War I, and the World War II. Verily, war has always been a compulsory part of human history. Having established the United Nations Organization,…
The Kashmir territorial dispute has been the apple of discord between the two South Asian nuclear powers, India and Pakistan. Ominously, after the abrogation of article 370 and sub clause 35 A by New Delhi, the Kashmir dispute has morphed into a more threatening volcano; possible eruption of this dormant volcano could lead to an…
Introduction The United States and the Taliban have held some rounds of talks with the objectives to bring about a lasting deal in Afghanistan; so far, no meaningful progress has been made. In the last few days, two major meet-ups have taken place in Beijing and Moscow in order to build upon the impetus generated…
The discipline of international relation is an interesting field of study largely (presumably) because of its clear-cut theories such as realism, liberalism, Marxism, etc. Democratic peace theory is a major strand of liberalism which states that modern democracies do not wage wars against one another due to their democratic institutions. Such democratic institutions make the government…
Pakistan’s journey since inception has been turbulent with continuous change in regimes, regressive policies, too much debt, an ever-increasing trade deficit, thepractice of privatization and nationalization, perpetually swelling nondevelopment expenditures, a nonexistent tax system and rampant corruption. This brought the country on the brink of economic precipice and meltdown. The Pakistani economy has become considerably…
Abstract Speaking historically, both littoral and landlocked countries relied heavily on sea routes to carry on trade because such pathways of trade were always cheaper and safer. Similarly, the emergence of deep seaports has given more importance and credence to burgeoning trade via sea routes around the world. In this regard, both the Gwadar and…
The Importance of FM Javad Zarif’s Visit to Pakistan There is no gainsaying to the fact that the geostrategic, geopolitical and geo-economic factors have, indubitably, always played a pivotal role in bringing states together so as to maximise their socioeconomic and security interests. On the same line, both Pakistan and Iran, due to their geographical…
It has been one of the most difficult tasks for almost all successive governments in Pakistan to effectively manage relations with the US. Even though Pakistan has helped the US achieve its overriding security and economic objectives in South Asia since the 1950s, Washington has unfairly blamed Islamabad for propping up the Afghan Taliban to…
Before the May 12 deadline, President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the multilateral Iran nuclear deal, with the objective to find a different method of dealing with the purported Iranian threat to the Middle East. The Trump administration has announced that “the highest level of economic sanctions” will be imposed on Iran, warning that…
