Pakistan’s Relevance? It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal ~Henry Kissinger The Premise The World is changing and new power paradigms are in play. The conventional order and rule-based certainties are now being challenged while the United Nations is gradually reduced to becoming a benign spectator –…
A Handbook on Counter-Terror Operations (Dedicated to one of the finest Armies, in general, that anyone can be rightly proud to have been associated with and to all young officers in particular, that make this Army, what it is)(No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism).Barack Obama. PremisePakistan has suffered…
“One thing that I noticed is, having met some former Taliban that they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They grew up in very ignorant cultures where they did not learn about the outside world.”anon The Pak-Afghan peace talks in…
Pakistan’s proactive strategy and taking the battle to the militants has apparently payed off in the KP Regions. Well done Army, Air force and the Intelligence. I being the biggest critic of the intelligence will not hold back where praise deserves to be extended and here is a case where a commendable operation has been…
Times are such and narratives so many, that everyone has a point of view and an opinion on anything under the sun. Today, the most pressing issue seems to be the Durand Line, (as the Afghans like to call it), or the international border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, (as Pakistan likes to address it). I…
‘If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It’sa country based on theatre. It’s a lunatic State’ – completely insane. Norman Finkelstien Israel came into being in 1948 through a dubious United Nations Resolution, 181, that called for the partition of Palestine into two States –…
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark: the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light’’ Plato Dr Ruskin described ‘economy’ as the bastard science of darkness1 . He developed the idea of the Economic Man2 . A material thought that now governs how the world…
‘When we are killed, do not say we are dead, for in fact, it is you who are dead’, Palestinian addressing the Muslim World We live in times where a divided world endures the contradictions of clashing values, interests and politics. Conventions are being redefined, as new ones are established, diplomacy is reduced to a…
At 2:30pm, on 22 April, allegedly 26 people were shot and killed (could be more), in a terrorist attack in Baisaran, 6 kms from Pahalgam in Indian Held Kashmir. True to form, the Indian media went ballistic, and even more predictable, Pakistan was immediately blamed. The attack was owned by, what the Indian media said,…
‘Hostility towards Pakistan is the quickest route to national unity in India’, Barak Obama India and Pakistan, two nuclear capable States, pugnacious neighbours, recently prosecuted a short war against one another. It was an unprecedented war that remained confined to an electro-magnetic spectrum, it was a non-contact engagement, beyond- visual- range (BVR), with unbelievable stand-off…
