Most recently, Pakistan’s government used its trump card and announced to hand-over the Gwadar Sea Port to its closed strategic ally China. It produced shock and awe in the region and also panic in the different important capitals of the world. Of course it has multiplier effects in the fields of socio-economy, geo-politics and geo-strategic….
National Security can be undermined because of the socio-political environment prevailing and its dependencies, viz the roles of viz (1) state and the political system, representative democracy, basic values, ideology, economy and the decision – making process. Because they impact beyond the boundaries of single society, socio-political issues require ethnical and responsible solutions. However if…
If ethnic and sectarian strife were not enough to go with terrorism, we are now facing religious strife. One is under no illusion that this is not being deliberately fomented to aggravate the deteriorating law and order situation, slipping beyond the control of the civilian law and enforcement authorities (LEAs) into anarchy, the creeping kind….
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide BombingsAt Twenty-eight Shia persons were killed and 46 others injured when a suicide bomber struck outside a mosque just after the Friday prayers in Pat Bazaar in Hangu Town (Hangu District) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 1, reports The News. The officials of the bomb disposal unit (BDU) confirmed that…
Pakistan has gone through a period of trial and tribulation for the last fifteen years or so, It was expected that the exit of Gen Pervez Musharraf would have ushered in a new era of peace and prosperity and the democracy that dawned would herald in a new beginning but that dream has remained elusive,…
The unfortunate incident of Joseph Colony, Badami Bagh, Lahore, where homes, shops and Churches of the Christian community were set on fire, brought collective shame and embarrassment for the entire Pakistani nation. Each time an incident of violence against a minority community takes place, we think that it could not have been worse. But soon…
” .. Nearest in affection to the believers (Muslims) are those who say: “We are Christians…” (Qur’an;5:82). “It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance”. [Pickthall] IntroductionAlthough…
The 11th International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) 2013 was held in UAE, Abu Dhabi during February 17-21, 2012. More than 1,112 companies from some 59 countries participated in the strategically most important tri-service exhibition for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It was held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al…
American presidential elections have always been the victim of dichotomy. It is won and lost on the basis of domestic agenda. But, on the contrary, the elected president’s legacy is shaped by foreign and defense policies that he forms in the next four years. Same is the case with Obama’s second term. He has won…
“Deep State” (derin devlet in Turkish) is an imported term by the world from Turkey—it is neither a scientific concept nor a philosophical postulate but a word which resembles the mafia-like deterioration of state structures. When we start to learn some basics about Pakistani politics (its internal and regional instability, its relations with the Muslim…
