Turkmenistan has become the hub of regional connectivity and pioneer of collective socio-economic prosperity. Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has great vision of national macro-economic sustainability and diversification of resources due to which now his country is gradually but surely inching towards a smarter economy. Strategic Geography Turkmenistan has a strategic geography which is located at…
Pakistan has offered Russia a ‘multidimensional strategic partnership’ on the eve of the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic relations. Pakistan’s foreign office said on May 01: “We believe that long term multidimensional strategic partnership between the two countries will be mutually beneficial for the people of Pakistan and the Russian Federation and would contribute towards…
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…
Context The frame of reference used in an analysis tremendously influences the output, and in fact shapes it. Our vantage point is congruent with the theory that the events of the Middle East are now superseding the political, security, and economic dynamics of South Asia, and are likely to become its major determinant. We are…
The changing geopolitical dynamics of world politics and their relevance to the great power politics has thrust Pakistan in the limelight in the contemporary international system. China’s economic rise under the One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR) or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) introduced the idea of economic integration which is inherited in Beijing’s…
It is easy now to criticize Pakistan’s leaders of the 50s for becoming a member of the Baghdad Pact in 1954, could our armed forces have repelled any concerted attack without being equipped in the 50s and 60s with US arms and equipment, particularly with India having weapons assiduously supplied by the Soviet Union? We…
The periodic ups and downs in US-Pakistan relationship, alternating approximately in 10 years cycles since 1971, has had us going from being the “cornerstone” of US foreign policy to being its “gravestone”. Do the decision makers at our highest levels at various institutions of state have a coherent strategy in place that they do not…
James Brien Comey Jr served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for four years till fired by President Donald Trump on May 9, 2017. Trump initially claimed this was because of Comey’s mishandling of the investigation into the private email of Hillary Clinton. The overriding perception prevailing is that the real reason…
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…
