Abstract On May 29, 2019 Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley Jr., who is the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) claimed that “Russia has likely been secretly carrying out very low-yield nuclear tests to upgrade its nuclear arsenal”. This opens a new pandora box for global security and potentially destabilize strategic stability with direct impact…
Baluchistan is Pakistan’s province of superlatives: the largest province, it is the most neglected province in terms of infrastructure development, education etc. but also the richest province in terms of natural resources including the world largest copper and gold reserves. These reserves will play an important role in Baluchistan’s and Pakistan’s development if and when…
With most of the leading opposition leaders in jail now for corruption, nepotism, money-laundering, and even drug smuggling, etc., the second and third tier party leaders are taking the stage. With this the resultant tenor is becoming rougher and more. With no hope of the masses turning out in numbers in the streets, other means…
PTI’s electoral victory in the last election has not been accepted by the political opposition parties in Pakistan. Calling the elections ‘rigged’ and the PM ‘selected’ is the political opposition’s way to undermine Imran Khan’s creditability and that of his government. This despite the fact that no rigging has been proven. This simple gesture of acknowledging…
Suicide Bombings Police on May 30 shot dead an alleged suicide bomber when he attempted to gain entry into Nasirul Aza Imambargah (Shia place of worship) in the Mecongi road area of Quetta, reports Dawn. According to Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Abdul Razzaq Cheema, a Policeman was also injured when the bomber, reportedly…
The Republic of Uzbekistan has been initiating various diversified but integrated reforms in the country since 2016. H.E. Shavkat Mirziyoyev President of Uzbekistan introduced many result oriented reforms in every sector of macro-economy, exports, investments, foreign trade, currency management and tourism which has now stabilized its current status of one of the leading economies in…
Former President of Egypt Muhammad Morsi collapsed on June 17 just after having addressed the court. Speaking from the glass cage he was kept in during court sessions, he had warned that he had “many secrets” he could reveal, a judicial official said. In earlier court sessions he used to give angry speeches until judges…
The maritime scene in the Indian Ocean remains in a state of flux due to occasional tensions among the regional states. Conspicuous naval activity is indicative of the Ocean’s primacy among the other oceans of the world. “Strategic maneuvering” of the great powers, as claimed by the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies in its report…
Context As the alliances associated with the global balance of power remain in the heightened state of flux, the organizations through which these tectonic shifts are being manifested, such as United Nations, BRICS, NATO and SCO are critical to observe. An inquiry that goes along with this examination is to understand the purposes of these…
The First World War was a global conflict with millions of soldiers fighting in theatres all over the globe. All belligerents captured hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war (POWs). British, Prussian, Czarist, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires mobilized native citizens as well imperial subjects for war. The Ottoman Empire was influenced by Prussian military system…
