India’s heavy military spending keeps Indian masses poorer than of Pakistanon May 24, 2019As published in the Telegraph, India dated 20 May 2019, according to the National Herald Tribune (NHT), India, with the militaristic mindset, the Indian generals and the political elites are still pursuing 2000 years old Roman oriented military policies, which were propounded by Vegetius. The Vegetius, a functionary in the Roman imperial bureaucracy, had composed a treatise in Latin on military … [Read more...] about India’s heavy military spending keeps Indian masses poorer than of Pakistan
India’s dream to reach Central Asia remains hazyon May 20, 2019Since the end of the cold war, India is struggling to reach Central Asia via a land route, still preferring to stick to the days of geopolitics rather than displaying flexibility to embrace the ongoing philosophy of geoeconomics. On the one hand India wants to draw huge investment and trade benefits connected with the Central Asian States (CARs), by using the shortest and much cheaper land route … [Read more...] about India’s dream to reach Central Asia remains hazy
Handling Pakistan’s economic challengeson May 15, 2019The PTI government is confronted with many challenges, especially the handling of the inherited debt ridden economy. In this context, the government has been working to make an economic revival plan mainly focused on stabilizing the value of rupee, to increase exports and take other measures to increase the foreign exchange reserves, to muster sufficient funds to repay the foreign loans and … [Read more...] about Handling Pakistan’s economic challenges
Getting out of the FATF grey list would help stabilize Pakistan’s economyon April 22, 2019According to the Josh, the FATF is an independent intergovernmental body that develops and promotes policies to protect the Global Financial System against terror funding and Money Laundering activities. FATF has two types of lists one is Black list and other is Grey list. Those countries which are not cooperating in taking measures against money laundering and countering terror funding are … [Read more...] about Getting out of the FATF grey list would help stabilize Pakistan’s economy
Likely shale oil and gas discovery in Pakistanon April 18, 2019Referring to the information obtained from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, on Sediment Data in Pakistan, the SDPI, in its Draft Report 2019 has given the estimates of shale oil and gas reserves in Pakistan. According to this report, Pakistan has more than 827365 square kilometres (Kms) of the sedimentary basin area in southern Punjab, eastern Balochistan and Sindh (311607 square … [Read more...] about Likely shale oil and gas discovery in Pakistan
India’s arms build-up: a future threat to Pakistanon April 12, 2019According to SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, in 2014 to 2018, India is among five major arms importers of Asia. India was also the world's second largest importer of major arms in 2014-18 and accounted for 9.5 per cent of the global total.India has been the chief recipient of Russian arms in 2014-18, although Russian arms exports to India fell by 42 per cent between 2014-18 because of India having … [Read more...] about India’s arms build-up: a future threat to Pakistan
Closure of Pakistan’s airspace: affected airlines to blame India for losseson April 7, 2019Airlines of many countries have suffered losses as a result of the closure of Pakistan's air space, a consequence of the military tension that was created by India on night 25/26 February 2019, as two of its fighter jets had violatedthe Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and bombed a bare ground, in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K), falsely claiming it to be a terrorist training camp. … [Read more...] about Closure of Pakistan’s airspace: affected airlines to blame India for losses
Pakistan Day reminded the nation to work harder to strengthen Pakistanon March 31, 2019Pakistan Day was celebrated on March 23, 2019 with full zeal and enthusiasm, amid military tensions created by India, reminded the Pakistani nation that it has to work harder to pull Pakistan out of its weak economic situation and to make it economically and militarily stronger. We must be a state that could blunt future foreign political and economic pressures and military coercion by our eastern … [Read more...] about Pakistan Day reminded the nation to work harder to strengthen Pakistan
India negates regional peace and economic integrationon March 25, 2019India, being a major country in South Asia wants to play a dominant role in the region by negating fair play and justice and adopting the theory of realism, that is to seek power and exert that power to influence smaller countries of the region to comply. This strategy of India is counter to peace making in the region by resolving the contentious issues through dialogue and focusing on the … [Read more...] about India negates regional peace and economic integration
India’s military adventurism will failon March 15, 2019For the past few years, India was dreaming to display its self assumed status of a major power over Pakistan by the display of its military muscle across the Line of Control (LoC). In other words, after signing an agreement of strategic partnership with the US in 2005, India had started thinking that it was no less than a major military power in South Asia and it could easily behave as a hegemonic … [Read more...] about India’s military adventurism will fail
