India has long cherished the dream of becoming a hegemonic power in the region, to achieve regional preponderance; New Delhi has employed both soft and hard power to bring all the peripheral South Asian countries under its military and economic influence. For India, economically and militarily rising Pakistan has continued to pose a potential threat…
Introduction Donald Trump, the US president is targeting Muslims on the pretext of the war against terrorism. He is under influence of a common myth invented after 911 by Christian fundamentalists, Neocons and Islamophobes that Islam is to be blamed for militancy and terrorism for fuelling wars. This is corollary to the earlier myth persistently…
The Economic Cooperation Organization ECO is the successor organization of RCD (Regional Cooperation for Development that was formed in 1964 leveraging the status being in American block) and was re-formed in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey under a mutual agreement to further enhance cooperation in economic, trade and tourism sectors due to border connectivity….
The Heart of Central Asia, Uzbekistan will resume direct flight operations from Lahore, to Tashkent from April 5, 2017 and will launch two flights a week. Flights would operate on every Wednesday and Friday with the number of flights to be increased in the future. Previously, Uzbekistan Airways suspended flight operations to Pakistan due to…
The recent Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit in Islamabad was an interesting event. It had symbolic as well as substantive significance. In the symbolic context the event negated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s articulation about isolating Pakistan internationally. All ten members and three observers participated in the summit, even Afghanistan did not oblige Modi by…
The Pakistan Navy is one of the more powerful and experienced navies indigenous to the Indian Ocean. It has played its part in ensuring peace and co-operation in the Indian Ocean Region and continues to strive do so. Though on an individual basis, it is the main guarantor of stability in the northern reaches of…
Contemporary geopolitical attributes of South Asia are unambiguously designing a new outlook of the region in which incompatible national standings cemented in various points of disagreements between India and Pakistan are going to draw a new future of the region. The inflexible national standings of both states have dragged the region towards nuclearization where India…
Recently the 13th Economic Cooperation Organization (EC)) summit was held in Islamabad. The theme was ‘Connectivity for Regional Prosperity’ and the participants reviewed the objective conditions and progress in implementation of ECO programs and projects. ECO was a great diplomatic victory of Pakistan as all member states participated; the summit projected Pakistan’s principle stance on greater regional…
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”-Albert Einstein The true essence of the above quote lies in the fact that the very person who unlocked the most forceful weapon mankind has ever witnessed advocated peace through understanding, which compels us to establish it as a reality of life. In…
The vastness of oceans which count more than two third of the planet earth has witnessed virtual shrinking over the last 2–3 decades. This has been primarily caused due mammoth advancements in naval warfare TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures), hi-tech mass destruction weapons, long range high definition sensors, robust command, control, communications and Intelligence systems….
