“Four Battlegrounds” by Paul Scharre is a fascinating account of emerging technologies especially Artificial Intelligence (AI) in military affairs and modern warfare. New technologies from the invention of gun powder, artillery, automobile, airplane, tank, and submarine have propelled revolution in military affairs throughout human history. The first computer-based model was used by the Russian military…
The Sino-Indian strategic contest has become an undeniable reality of the contemporary international system where the broader US-China multileveled competition has taken on many faces and affected the politics of different regions where South Asia and Southeast Asia are the exceptions. Indian increasing strategic collaboration with the United States and American growing global anti-Chines engagements…
Bomb/ IED Blasts The Station House Officer (SHO) of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Police Station in Khuzdar Town (Khuzdar District) of Balochistan was killed on April 27 in an explosion targeting his vehicle, reports Dawn. Khuzdar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Fahad Khosa said that the incident took place near Jhalawan Medical College located on the…
From Shimla to Goa, Pakistan’s bilateralism with India has come a long way. It has nosedived and hit rock bottom in essence. With bad blood and mistrust ruling the roost, it is difficult to imagine any statesmanship role from either of the ruling dispensations. As Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari air-dashed to the southwestern coast of…
Addressing Future Fest, Pakistan’s largest tech conference and expo in Lahore recently, I found myself facing a well informed and technical savvy audience. I took the liberty of speaking about Pakistan and the perception of the situation we are facing, a topic very close to my heart which I felt would also strike a chord…
Circumstances are difficult, the road treacherous and the leadership inept. While this mantra has been mentioned many times in the past, it does bear repeating today. So for the uninitiated, here it is again circumstances are difficult, the road treacherous and the leadership inept! In the first corner of this boxing circus is the Pakistan…
Robert Kiyosaki is one of the most influential contemporary financial experts, he has won many accolades for his writings and now he has taken up global economy as his next project. In a series of lectures, Robert has come up with a profound theory which explains a lot of occurrences in the modern world and…
Whose affair is [determined by] consultation among themselves (Quran 42:38) Fulfil your oaths/pledge/covenant; any promise will be checked into (Quran 17:34) And do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly (Quran 2:188)[1] “Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (Quran: 13:11) The ballot is stronger than the bullet….
The emerging trends of great power politics have transformed the conventional nature of the international system. This transformation has started pushing the existing designs of great power politics towards a complex oceanic political order in which different mini-alliances of states have begun appearing from different regions. In the debates on the emerging new mini-lateral strategic…
Pakistan and Afghanistan are next door neighbors with predominant Muslim population along with joint historic cultural linkages; however, the relations between these two predominantly Islamic countries were never pleasant since day one. Analyzing demo graphically, Southern and Eastern Afghanistan is predominately Pashto-speaking like the adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and northern Balochistan regions…
