Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Bomb/IED blasts One man was killed and four others were injured in a remote-controlled blast near a bus terminal in the Lea Market area of Lyari Town in Karachi on November 25, reports Dawn, Senior Superintendent Police (SSP)-City Fida Hussain said that the intended target has not yet been ascertained. At…
The Paris agreement on climate change is a big win for President Obama, particularly given that he’s invested a lot of political capital in this issue, especially in his second term when he no longer has to worry about having to run for re-election. The outcome of the conference seems to have vindicated his commitment…
Ongoing Saudi Arabia and Iran row has already created tsunami in the different capitals of the world. Mexican waves of shock and awe in the Gulf blowing are Cooperation (GCC) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA). With the passage of each day, chances of reconciliation, conflict resolution and diplomacy are dying. Prosecutions, protests, processions…
Bruce Riedel’s book What We Won is brief history of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) support of Afghanistan’s rebels in the 1980s. The book is divided into several chapters on major players of the last battle of the Cold War. The chapter on Afghan communists is very light with no serious inquiry about the background and…
A motivated terrorist attack with a far more deadly purpose than just killing people, Pathankot was a cold-blooded effort to derail the impending comprehensive “dialogue” between India and Pakistan starting Jan 15, 2016. While seven soldiers were killed and many more injured, Indian aircraft and related equipment on the airbase did not suffer any material…
Going into battle without adequate training or being properly equipped is bad enough, not having sufficient force, without proper motivation and/or not having battle-tested senior commanders and down the line, is asking for trouble. Not surprising that an unmitigated disaster militarily, the 2004 operations in FATA and the subsequent 2007 one in Swat were badly…
“It’s been dubbed a graveyard for peacemakers, the Rubik’s Cube of diplomacy, but despite the odds Cyprus may well defy naysayers in 2016 by solving its decades-long division,” The Guardian 2016 New President Mustafa Akinci holds the future of Turkish Northern Cyprus. Now divided Cyprus tries its best to become united during 2016. Mustafa Akinci…
Why the CPEC April 20, 2015 was a red letter day in the Pakistan-china relationship. The much awaited visit of Chinese president Xi Jinping to Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan finally materialised. a number of memoranda under the umbrella of china Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC) were signed between the two states for establishment of…
It has been seventeen years since India and Pakistan carried out their nuclear explosions, surprised the world and shattered the innocence and romanticism of South Asia forever. India’s explosions were more status driven, while Pakistan’s explosions were security driven. The Indians also wanted to call the Pakistani bluff. Since then, in all these years, the…
Introduction This is the second lecture delivered by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), the great philosopher, poet, politician, academic, barrister, scholar and intellectual who was well versed with Western philosophy as well as Islamic theology. He critically analyzed the causes of decline of Muslim Ummah and indicated possible ways of renaissance of Muslims. This scholarly aspect…
