The rapidly changing and developing geopolitics around IOR and Gulf/Arabian Seas raise some serious challenges and concerns for Pakistan navy for protecting Pakistan’s seaward interests. Some challenges were mentioned before in recent articles like handling Indian hegemony, preventing maritime terrorism, Seaward Economy considering China Pakistan Economic Corridor and Protecting 290,000 Square kilometer stretched extended exclusive…
Cold War—an ideological battle between capitalism and communism witnessed 45 years of proxy wars, threatening environment and aggressive posture between the US and the U.S.S.R. The war concluded in 1991 soon after the formal breakup of the U.S.S.R, the leader of the communist world during the war period, but its blots can be observed all…
Very soon, the country will be witnessing another election. We will be fed with tons of information and disinformation. Each contestant will mudsling his/ her opponent; and the ignorant electorate will cast their vote, not on what the candidate can offer to his constituency, but on how good he maligns the opponent. The results of…
Historical Perspective By the year 1978, western powers considered Iran as a stable and trusted ally in Gulf region. Armed with sophisticated and most modern warfare weapons made in US, the oil-rich state had a highly specialized army and an efficient and dreaded secret police, the Savak. Raza Shah Pehlavi was the supreme leader of…
North Korea has threatened to cancel the summit with the United States in response to the South Korean Defence Ministry’s announcement that military exercises “Max Thunder” between Washington and Seoul will go as per schedule. These drills opened on May 14 and will continue through May 25, it includes participation of around 100 combat aircraft,…
Introduction Muslims as a religious community have become the prime target of the colonial powers who have changed the methodology: Neocolonialism, the control of less-developed countries by developed countries through indirect means, to produce a colonial-like exploitation. The term is widely used to refer to a form of global power in which transnational corporations and…
Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) being a sovereign regulator of international energy system granted an observer status to Pakistan in 2005. Since then lot of sincere and serious efforts have been initiated from both sides to achieve the end goal i.e. full membership. Unfortunately, the government of Pakistan has not yet been rectified it because of…
The debate on traditional and non-traditional security has become a trend in the contemporary world because in the conflict ridden international environment it is difficult to escape from the ongoing wave of security threats. People from the world’s capitals and leading security architects of different states are struggling to overcome the wave of security challenges…
The decades long period of Soviet-American confrontation under the shadow of the Cold War marked an unending competition between Moscow and Washington. The emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev in Soviet Union and his reorientation of Moscow’s strategic position in world politics served to dismantle the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991. The dissolution of Soviet…
Recently President of Turkey H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced snap presidential and parliamentary elections, labelling it a “turning point” in the national history of his country. Justice and Development Party (AKP) has nominated Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as its candidate for the upcoming presidential election to be held on June 24, 2018. He vowed that…
