Tag: TTP
The 4th generation war: Who is running away with the show?
Saleem Akhtar Malik | After President Trump’s recent tour of Saudi Arabia and Israel, the Middle East is ablaze with accusations and counter-accusations. The geopolitical...
Pak-Afghan border closures: It’s business that suffers the most!
Imtiaz Gul | After 22 days, Pakistan reopened the Friendship Gate at Chaman border crossing on May 27 on “humanitarian grounds” coinciding with the Ramazan...
The Afghan Quagmire: Kabul is not the only victim!
Saad Yousaf | Over the last few weeks, the unwieldy Unity government in Kabul has been facing multifaceted challenges. Afghan Taliban’s gains in Northern Afghanistan...
What are Pakistan’s options in ICJ on the Kulbhushan Case
Zeeshan Munir | Everyone in Pakistan seems to have been caught off guard by the desperate Indian act of approaching ICJ to safeguard its national...
Bringing Afghanistan & Pakistan close: Will China’s efforts bear fruit?
Imtiaz Gul | China is running full-steam ahead with multi-tier diplomacy to create a synergy of thought and action among regional countries as part of...
Abdullah Abdullah denies allegations of conspiring against Pakistan
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan’s Chief Executive, has said that Afghanistan neither has the capacity nor the intention to destabilize Pakistan. This statement came days...
Pakistan’s route to safety: Revision of the Afghan policy
Asif Haroon Raja | On May 5, 2017, Afghan border security forces carried out unprovoked firing across the Chaman border in Baluchistan on two Pakistani...
Civil-Military relations on social media: Has Pakistan turned into a laughing...
Imtiaz Gul | Pakistan’s state institutions have yet to learn the art of strategic communication. The confessional video statement of the once-dreaded TTP spokesperson, Ehsanullah...
Nawaz’s Silence on Indian Involvement in Sponsoring Terror in Pakistan
Saad Rasool| On Monday, Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Asif Ghafoor, announced that Ehsanullah Ehsan, the former spokesperson for prescribed...
Afghanistan: A Graveyard of Empires or an Afghan Cemetery
By Adnan Qaiser | Alexander Cockburn had rightly identified Afghanistan as “nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets...
Saudi-led alliance: Pakistan must make independent decisions for its own national...
Dr. Zafar N Jaspal | The hysterical debate over the appointment of formal Chief of Army Staff as head of the 39-nation Islamic military alliance...
Can US President take Hudson Institute report on Pakistan seriously?
By Jamal Hussain | A briefing paper on Pakistan was issued to much media hype in February 2017 by the Hudson Institute, a research setup...
Where is the Pakistani government and what exactly is it doing...
Dr Zafar Jaspal| The bloody terror attacks in Awaran, Quetta, Mohmand, Lahore, Peshawar and Sehwan during the last week and now again Lahore have traumatized the...
Lahore Bleeds: Is India Taking Revenge?
Moeed Pirzada | After Feb 13th attack on protesting chemists outside Punjab Assembly, the predominant view in Pakistan has been that India is responsible for...
Al-Bakistan – My Land of pure, its confusions, its lovely contradictions...
Maleeha Hashmi | Oct 25, 2016 When I’m happy, I eat. When I’m sad, I eat more. Yes! I’m a Pakistani. Welcome to Pakistan –...
Of Altaf Hussain & London: First Steps..!
Moeed Pirzada | Altaf Hussain’s incitement to violence and exhortation to attack media channels has many dimensions and while he may look like acting in...
Why attack a Naval Base in Karachi? Who could do it?
Moeed Pirzada | Why attack a Naval Base in Karachi? Who could do it?… because “someone” is trying to send the message to the whole...
