The US based influential Foreign Policy magazine recently reported that India is building a top secret nuclear facility in its Southern state of Karnataka (formerly Mysore) to produce thermonuclear weapons. Located in the city of Challakere, about 260 km from Mysore on India’s western coast, the facility is expected to be completed by 2017. It will upgrade India’ nuclear…
The idea of recognizing a nation State’s special rights over sea space outside territorial limits and calling it Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is a relatively new one. In earlier times, a country’s sovereign territorial waters extended up to the distance where cannon shots landed in the water from the coast and was generally taken as…
Prelude to Big Dams in PakistanThe story of big dams in Pakistan has its beginning in the historic Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) accord that was signed in 1960 by India and Pakistan on the water sharing formula of the five major rivers that originate in the Tibetan Plateau/India and flow through the Indian territory before…
Inset “Another method to devolve the administrative structure is suggested which does not warrant major decision making process or legislation. My Paper on further administrative devolution is enclosed. The necessity of creation of Chief Commissioners’ administrative units (provinces) was apparent after the last mega floods in 2010-11. The administrative handling of districts from a distant…
The state-run Saudi Press Agency has announced that 34 nations are forming a new “Islamic military alliance” to fight terrorism. But will this new alliance really be able to prevent future terrorist attacks and create lasting peace? There is no statistically validated guarantee that the military strategy of fighting violence with violence will work. It…
Ongoing Saudi Arabia and Iran row has already created tsunami in the different capitals of the world. Mexican waves of shock and awe in the Gulf blowing are Cooperation (GCC) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA). With the passage of each day, chances of reconciliation, conflict resolution and diplomacy are dying. Prosecutions, protests, processions…
“It’s been dubbed a graveyard for peacemakers, the Rubik’s Cube of diplomacy, but despite the odds Cyprus may well defy naysayers in 2016 by solving its decades-long division,” The Guardian 2016 New President Mustafa Akinci holds the future of Turkish Northern Cyprus. Now divided Cyprus tries its best to become united during 2016. Mustafa Akinci…
Why the CPEC April 20, 2015 was a red letter day in the Pakistan-china relationship. The much awaited visit of Chinese president Xi Jinping to Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan finally materialised. a number of memoranda under the umbrella of china Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC) were signed between the two states for establishment of…
It has been seventeen years since India and Pakistan carried out their nuclear explosions, surprised the world and shattered the innocence and romanticism of South Asia forever. India’s explosions were more status driven, while Pakistan’s explosions were security driven. The Indians also wanted to call the Pakistani bluff. Since then, in all these years, the…
Introduction This is the second lecture delivered by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), the great philosopher, poet, politician, academic, barrister, scholar and intellectual who was well versed with Western philosophy as well as Islamic theology. He critically analyzed the causes of decline of Muslim Ummah and indicated possible ways of renaissance of Muslims. This scholarly aspect…
