Strategy

For nearly three months, viewers around the globe have been subjected to a daily dose of heart-wrenching pictures of Ukrainian...

The brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine is now proceeding with full ferocity. It is resulting in bloodshed, terror and chaos...

A nuclear weapon is a device that uses nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of the two processes to...

Just like a typical Melbourne day, 12 March 2006 had a number of different shades for the Australian cricket team....

Some years ago, I was talking to Pakistan’s famous intellectual, political analyst and renowned environmentalist Dr. Adil Najam. I asked...

The American ruling classes’ fantasies and political imagination about the advent and persistence of a uni-polar World after the demise...

After the Cold War, Russia faced the most severe economic and political challenges. The collapse of the Soviet Union had...

As per media reports, Prime Minister Imran Khan will leave for Moscow on an official visit during the current weak....

China has long been idolised by many countries in the developing world as a power that stands up for the...

Pakistan and China have had a splendid journey so far. For decades, their bilateral relationship has anchored on the principles...

As the Prime Minister boarded PAK 002 bound for Beijing, what was on his mind? We can only speculate. Once...

In the five following decades since 1979 our region has witnessed six insurgencies and the corresponding militarisation that comes with...

The much-spoken-of Bajwa Doctrine was a critical step in the development of Pakistan’s security mindset, and it attempted to suggest...

Since dividing and annexing the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir on the 5th of August 2019, India has geared...

A national security policy (NSP) has been unveiled in Pakistan that lays out the broad lineaments of policy direction for...

Some Pakistanis lament that everybody knows the problems of Pakistan. They don’t want to read more about the problems and...

Documenting the National Security Policy (NSP) is a welcome step. After all, documenting something helps to know and understand it...

For many in Pakistan, there is one reason for the country’s perennial laggardness – corruption. These Pakistanis blame the cupidity...

It snowed late last night in Washington: perhaps a fitting end, in some metaphoric sense, to a day that marked...

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a very well-thought-out and executed project. The various road networks – many of...

American pragmatism in foreign policy is exemplary in the world of international politics. The US foreign policy establishment sometimes goes...

The dust has yet to settle from America’s hastily withdrawal from Afghanistan and instead of engaging with the Taliban to...

In the preceding few months and years, a historic event of immense import has played out before our eyes. The...

An NRO appears to be in the offing, in the form of the government's proposals for amnesty to the militants...

The origins of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are obscure. But this much is known: that in the formative period of...

In 1971, Pakistan found itself in an impossible situation. Severe polarization between the two wings of the country had resulted...