UK’s national crime agency and ‘proud Pakistanis’on December 29, 2019The National Crime Agency leads the UK’s fight to cut serious and organised crime, protecting the public by targeting and pursuing those criminals who pose the greatest risk to the UK.Founded in 2013 with its Headquarters in London, the NCA is fighting crime; human, weapon and drug trafficking; cybercrime; and economic crime, this includestax evasion […]
Musharraf death sentence — Justice served or denied?on December 20, 2019On December 17th after a long-drawn-out trial former military ruler retired General Musharraf was found “guilty of high treason and sentenced to death” by a three judges bank in a 2:1 split vote. The trial had been initiated for his abrogation of the Constitution of Pakistan and the declaration of a state of emergency as […]
Bangladesh and lebensraum — the aessa concept (Part-II)on December 18, 2019There is a misconception in the world in general and the region in particular about the strength and capabilities of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. As Korea and Vietnam have shown, a land war in Asia depends primarily on the effectiveness of ground troops in their own environment. True, preponderance of Air Force may have a […]
Bangladesh and lebensraum — the aessa concept (Part-I)on December 18, 2019March 26, 1990 Three centuries ago, the area now comprising Bangladesh was renowned as the bread basket of India, multiple increases in population later, Kissinger called Bangladesh an “international basket-case” in the 1970s. Starting from the 1942 food famine, this has been a sorry litany of natural and man-made disasters, the poor Bangladeshis have been […]
Keeping strategic assets secureon December 13, 2019‘Strategic assets’ is a relatively new concept that arose in connection with the fast-forward development of economic globalization in the 20th c. and a new wave of economic cold war that has been leashed by the change in economic power centersmore recently and the reorganization of economic, political and strategic alliances connected with it. By […]
The question of strategic assetson December 11, 2019The economic weapon is among the most powerful assets that any government possesses in protecting national security. Greater scrutiny is accorded to economic transactions involving strategic assets: the US government has enacted laws to protect a wide range of “Strategic Assets”, those include American farmland, airlines, telecommunications, and defence-related corporations from what it considers adverse […]
Geo-political changes benefitting Pakistan’s securityon December 6, 2019Geopolitical changes during the last decades coming with such speed require our security personnel to remain abreast with the changed situation and acquire clarity about the possible consequences for Pakistan. The ongoing globalization has confirmed that there has never been any physical separation of Europe from Asia and the Ural Mountains and Caucasus have rather […]
Kartarpur is more than symbolicon November 22, 2019The opening of the Kartarpur Corridor providing access to Sikhs to visit the revered Sikh Guru’s final resting place is in reality of enormous ramifications, a landmark achievement for Pakistan. Proposed during former Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s 1999 visit, the project remained on the back burner for two decades due to the fluctuating […]
Plan “A” goes for a sixon November 16, 2019Having made the ouster of the PTI government their common aim the opposition parties of Pakistan have reached a dead end. None of their announced goals, that is the resignation of PM Imran Khan came to nothing and only part of their unannounced goals that included the freeing PML(N) leader Nawaz Sharif from jail and […]
Between the devil and the deep seaon November 8, 2019The ill-fated Azadi-March of MaulanaFazlur Rahman has reached a dead end: the ultimatum he had given expired and his demand – PM stepping down from his office – has not taken place and is not likely to take place. In addition, the ‘partners’ in this enterprise, the PPP and the PML(N) have backed out from […]