The term maritime security essentially implies being safe against all forms of sea based threats, including threats from non-state actors and the conventional state based forces. The concept is not only vast but multidimensional. It spans conventional maritime security issues, like state sovereignty concerns, territorial disputes, to more non-traditional maritime security problems such as piracy,…
For centuries, inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula have been navigating the Indian Ocean in pursuit of new resources and opportunities but their knowledge of the oceans remained localized and limited only to trade winds and monsoonal phenomenon. With passage of time, as long distance mariners ventured beyond continental shelf to where blue…
Positioned at a geo-politically sensitive crossroads, Pakistan has since the 50s served off and on as a “cornerstone of US policy” in the Middle and Near East, joining the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) in 1954. With Iraq opting out in 1958, the US-sponsored “Baghdad Pact” (1955) became the now-defunct (1979) Central Treaty Organization…
More than 1000 Muslims were killed and over 100,000 displaced because police stood by and did nothing to stop the massacre during the Gujarat riots in 2002. Ransacking the home of Congress MLA Ehsan Jafri, rioters killed him and other 70 Muslims taking refuge at his house. They then burned and mutilated Jafri’s body. (Then)…
Advocating western policies to moderate extreme nationalistic and anti-western feelings in the face of Soviet Union’s domination of its neighbours, Pakistan enthusiastically joined the US-sponsored Baghdad Pact (re-named CENTO after Iraq left) and SEATO to contain Soviet advance southwards in Asia. With India refusing to be part of any US Alliance, its opposition to the…
Turkey and Pakistan share striking similarities when it comes to civil-military relationship. While Turkey was undergoing the botched up coup, here a little known political party “Move on Pakistan” was under focus for popping up posters, asking the military to take over, these poster were seen in all major cities of Pakistan two to three…
When the Indian security forces gunned down 22 year old Burhan Muzaffar Wani on July 8, 2016 in Anantang in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), they may have yet once again unleashed a bigger threat than the one they eliminated in the shootout. Burhan died in an intelligence-led operation along with two associates. Here is what…
The process of Islamisation in Pakistan started in earnest during Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s regime, this resulted in a marked shift in its entire frame of politics. When the fatal plane crash brought Zia’s decade in power to a violent end in an as yet-unexplained plane crash in 1988, it marked the end of the second military…
All through the across-the-board observance of Black Day, the entire nation demonstrated its solidarity with the suffering Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). The cause of the Kashmiri people enjoys across the board national support under cutting all sorts of divides. Horrendous episode of martyrdom of innocent Kashmiri brethren at the hands of Indian security…
Narendra Damodardas Modi, former Chief Minister of Gujrat and 15th Prime Minister of India has calculatedly inaugurated an ambitious era of multidimensional economic growth, technological advancements, political developments and social reforms for his country. Moreover, the regional and extra-regional foreign policy approaches of Modi coupled with substantial diplomatic aspirations attempt to luminously decorate Indian image…
