Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Bomb/IED blastsAt least eight people, including two tribal elders and six of their gunmen, were killed in an Improvised Explosive Device blast in the Marwar area of Bolan District on October 29. Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack. According to the Balochistan Levies, a convoy of tribal elders…
Even as Afghanistan struggles to cope with the trauma of civil strife and a chaotic socio- politico and economic situation, its problems are becoming more complicated with every passing day. It is bleeding internally because of a number of grave factors including the political scenario which is marred with maneuvers and intrigues between power hungry…
The Fifth “Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process” Summit jointly inaugurated by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Dec 9 in Islamabad counts as a major foreign policy success. Given the present situation in the Middle East and the connected problems in adjoining regions, this timely initiative to bring focus firmly on Afghanistan…
Anywhere in the world both tactical and strategic nuclear forces need to have a central command channel to ensure that nuclear forces that necessarily remain on a knife edge do not inadvertently cause a catastrophe triggered by an accident. In order to have absolute control over our nuclear deterrent, an “Air Force Strategic Command” was…
IntroductionDr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) does not need any introduction to the Muslims of world in general and the Indian sub-continent in particular. Today he is revered as a respected national poet of Pakistan who not only gave the idea of a separate homeland for the Muslims of India but also actively struggled for realization of…
Among the myriad number of major problems facing the coalition in Afghanistan (and in Iraq) is infidelity, soldiers and policemen trained by US and NATO forces more often than not turning their guns many times on their own instructors and/or fellow soldiers. While some of the time it has been a spur of the moment…
Dec 16 was a day of grief for many reasons. For 43 years we spent the day in gloom remembering the abject surrender in East Pakistan in 1971. On Dec 16, 2014, something so horrible happened that words alone cannot describe it, the APS Peshawar incident brought home to the people of Pakistan the brutal…
Friday Nov 13 will go down as the day when horror visited Paris in a wave of coordinated terrorist attacks against soft targets by gunmen and suicide bombers wearing suicide vests. At least 150 people died, among them concertgoers and restaurant diners, while more than 160 were injured seven of the attackers were also killed….
Russia and Pakistan are once again being engaged through series of meaningful dialogues from defence cooperation to gas supply and from investment conference to business forum – bilateral relations between Russia and Pakistan have got momentum. Serious efforts are being carried out for further strengthening of bilateral relations through rigorous commercial diplomacy and energy cooperation….
During his recent address to the UN General Assembly, PM Nawaz Sharif had said: South Asia needs strategic stability and this requires serious dialogue to achieve nuclear restraint, conventional balance and conflict resolution. He proposed a new peace initiative, comprising four specific and feasible steps: 1) Pakistan and India formalise and respect 2003 understanding of…
