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…
Though President Donald Trump touted his meeting with Chairman Kim Jong Un as a historic move, most independent evaluations and interpretations do not support the presidential camp’s euphoria. Critics say that the summit has legitimised Kim whose regime has been accused of multiple human rights abuses, and that the summit was more about headlines than…
The One Belt and One Road (OBOR) initiative would lessen the probabilities of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan providing Pakistan a competence to monitor India’s naval activities in the Indian Ocean. Pakistan plays a significant role in China’s Maritime Silk Route as part of China’s Belt and Road (B & R) initiative. The…
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…
