The emerging trends of great power politics have transformed the conventional nature of the international system. This transformation has started pushing the existing designs of great power politics towards a complex oceanic political order in which different mini-alliances of states have begun appearing from different regions. In the debates on the emerging new mini-lateral strategic…
Pakistan and Afghanistan are next door neighbors with predominant Muslim population along with joint historic cultural linkages; however, the relations between these two predominantly Islamic countries were never pleasant since day one. Analyzing demo graphically, Southern and Eastern Afghanistan is predominately Pashto-speaking like the adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and northern Balochistan regions…
The global debates of nuclear politics cannot be studied without discussing the South Asian regional security environment under the nuclear shadow. The governments of India and Pakistan decided to test their nuclear devices in 1998 and transformed the regional political order of South Asia, where the multileveled hostility between two nuclear-armed neighbours has now become…
Since the discovery of oil in the second half of the 19th century in the US, the political power of oil has been on ample display. It has been the most critical dimension in shaping international, domestic and social life. Subsequent detection of oil reserves in Russia, Latin America and the Middle East meant that…
“Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (Quran: 13:11) Introduction Even after 75 years of independence, the objectives of hard-earned freedom through great sacrifices and enormous loss of human lives and material through democratic political struggle remains a far-fetched dream. There are many reasons but the top…
Throughout Pakistan’s history, regardless of political chaos, wars with India, USSR and terrorism, there was an unshaken bond between the people of Pakistan and our armed forces. Due to this strong bond Pakistan came out of many severe challenges successfully. The challenge of 5th generation hybrid warfare with guerrilla tactics, using Afghan soil against Pakistan,…
The Saudi-Iranian rapprochement has always remained an impracticable concept in the politics of the Muslim world, where the governments of both states have developed extremely incompatible and contrasting stands against each other. Both states developed strict competing behaviors and translated their competition into hostile diplomatic interactions. The diplomatic hostility between Iran and Saudi Arabia is…
Media plays an important part in political socialization. With the advent of mass media, it is generally believed that the role of media is very important in creating political awareness among peoples and their participation in the democratic process in the society. It also plays an important role in changing the society. Socialization is the…
The United States of America was the deciding factor in the Second World War. It is also true that the ascent of the United States in world dominance was paved by the defeat of the Germans in Europe and was hailed as the armed nation that liberated the western world. And so, from that point…
Ever increasing terrorism activities, check. A hapless security apparatus, check. Economic meltdown, check. Luckless population at the mercy of wolves, check. Major stakeholders blaming each other, check. Into the abyss, check! “Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you”. Nietzsche’s quote…
