Recently President of Turkey H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced snap presidential and parliamentary elections, labelling it a “turning point” in the national history of his country. Justice and Development Party (AKP) has nominated Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as its candidate for the upcoming presidential election to be held on June 24, 2018. He vowed that…
A “thank you” is over due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose erratic and highhanded approach has, yet once again, internationalized the Kashmir dispute. In complete solidarity with the people of Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir, April 06 was observed as ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’. Pakistan has always forcefully and effectively taken up the matter of…
Pakistan is located in the area where major geo strategic transformation is taking place rapidly due to many factors involving US presence in Afghanistan and its future plans, US India partnership in Indian Ocean region (IOR), new emerging SCO bloc, Chinese led OBOR project in which CPEC is the critical part and rapidly magnifying independence…
The American global nuclear non-proliferation debate and its varying direction to address the nuclear ambitions of the states located at diverse regions has remained an important topic of contemporary world politics. In order to achieve the core objectives of its global non-proliferation campaign, Washington-based advocators of arms control and disarmament mainly focus on the Middle…
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR), the President of Azerbaijan H.E. Ilham Aliyev declared 2018 ‘Year of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic‘(ADR). Azerbaijan Democratic Republic has multidimensional phenomena which was achieved through continuous political struggle, nationalism and national harmony of Azerbaijanis in the 19th century. ADR was established on May 28, 1918,…
“In Turkey, we have marriage of Islam and democracy. The child of this marriage is secularism. This child gets sick from time to time. The Turkish armed forces are the doctor which saves the child. Depending on how sick the child is, we administer the necessary medicine to make sure the child recuperates”. General Cevik…
International agreements play an instrumental role in resolving the decades-long inimical issues amongst the states which otherwise would have never been resolved besides bloating the bad blood between them. These accords, either bilateral or multilateral, have drastically scaled down the prospects of World War III involving major powers. The US being the sole super power,…
Abstract In June 2018 Pakistan as well as India will participate for the first time in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China to be held at Qingdao city on June 9-10 as a full scale member of this powerful organization. Obviously this provides a brilliant opportunity to show willingness and readiness to contribute…
Prime Minister Khaqan Abbasi’s ‘private’ visit to the United States and “official visit” to Afghanistan have, apparently, resulted in some forward movement towards achieving peace in Afghanistan. Pakistan and the US have agreed to increase contacts for the resolution of all issues especially Afghanistan. Reportedly, the US authorities have assured Pakistan that the Trump administration…
Dear Readers, The advent of summer heralds the arrival of two phenomena heat wave and load shedding, a combination of the two can be deadly. At the end of March, the weather turned exceedingly hot and humid, on cue Karachi started experiencing prolonged and recurring power outages. As demand for power spiked, a sudden ‘dispute’…
