Are Elite’s drivers to be blamed? on February 13, 2021Recently, three out of four poor young chaps, who came all the way from Mansehra to try their luck in a written exam for the Anti-Narcotics force, met their end in a fateful night car-accident on Islamabad’s Srinagar Highway. To save, perhaps few bucks, they all were travelling in a Mehran car (worth less than […]
Modi returns to Mother Russia on June 13, 2017Vladimir Putin received Narendra Modi’s return to mother Russia with a beaming and boastful smile on his face. Veiled behind Putin’s customary greetings and smiles, one could notice a glimpse of smirk on his face, which in itself conveyed heaps of understanding about Modi’s obvious attempts to feign fidelity with the old friend, Russian. Standing […]
American rediscovery of Afghanistan on June 4, 2017Browsing through autobiographies of prominent American statesmen and the National Archives, it seems that history has not been a strong suit of American intelligence community, or perhaps the latter suffers from a collective and selective dementia. Case in point: everytime, the US intelligence or strategic-community briefs the Congress on Afghanistan, they sound as if they […]
Ambassador Aizaz Chaudhrys revelations on May 27, 2017In his recent address to Pakistani-Americans at a community dinner in Houston, Pakistan’s Ambassador to United States, Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry, noted that ‘realignments in Asia are posing new challenges to Pakistan’. Without elaborating how the ongoing ‘realignments’ in Asia are different from those in the past, Mr Chaudhry — taking a leaf from General Yahya’s […]
Our Middle East predicament on May 20, 2017Pakistan, it seems, has permanently entangled itself into the regional power politics between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is not just because Iran and Saudi Arabia are, historically and intrinsically, associated with the cultural and religious outlook of Pakistan’s two sizable minority sects, namely Shiite and Ahle-Hadis. The […]
Who does Donald Trump represent? on May 4, 2017Once considered a ‘wild-card’ for the American ‘Deep-State’ or ‘Military-Industrial-Complex’ (MIC), Donald Trump is now dubbed as a puppet in its hands. The neo-cons hawkish and warmonger’s fear that Trump might become ‘America First’ isolationist, undermining the role and power of military establishment and damaging the profit of military contractors have evaporated in the thin […]
Deconstructing Gen (r) Janjuas claims on April 26, 2017Speaking a few days ago at the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) in Islamabad, National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Gen (r) Nasir Khan Janjua had made some interesting assertions regarding the Afghan War of the 1980s. If quoted rightly and within context, Gen (r) Janjua’s assertions seem somewhat contradictory, hence needing to be deconstructed. […]