Tag: war

General Pervez Musharraf held the dubious distinction of following in the footsteps of military dictators Ayub, Yahya and Zia. Like ...

On his watch, the Pakistani army decided to attack Indian positions at Kargil, Kashmir, in the spring of 1999. He ...

Pakistan and Bangladesh are two countries in the South Asian region. Once upon a time, today’s Pakistan and the former ...

The separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971 was a traumatic event in the history of the region. In the ...

In Pakistan, as in much of the Muslim world, the Ottoman Emperors are idolised, and often portrayed as God’s gift ...

I used to be invited by the Staff College at Quetta to give a talk on the evolution of warfare, ...

On my year-long study tour of the United States, many African Americans, when asked about American identity in relation to ...

Puerto Vallarta lies in southern Mexico on the Pacific coast. We had been there once before, in 2019, and checked ...

In the last few years, a new word has been added to the political vocabulary – “Syrianization.” This new word ...

Dr. Henry Kissinger, the scholar, statesman, political activist, author and professor at Harvard University, is today almost a hundred years ...

Yesterday, with the collaboration of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and The National Book Foundation (NBF), the launch ceremony ...

After World War II, the world experienced enormous growth driven by rampant consumerism and the growth of faith in free ...

In what appears to be a major policy shift, the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has said that it would target ...

The Afghan Taliban's defense ministry issued a strongly worded albeit 'diplomatic' rebuke to Pakistan, after Pakistani interior minister Rana Sanaullah ...

He could have been a hero in any romantic feature movie. Physically extremely smart, elegant and handsome with a soft ...

Just 24 years after its birth, Pakistan suffered the most tragic and horrific shock of its short history when the ...

The 'Sandringham Summit' was packed full of drama as Meghan Markle and Prince Harry reveal all in their netflix series. ...

As Pakistan is already undergoing a wave of multiple crisis, the announcement of the end of ceasefire by the Tehreek-i-Taliban ...

While Pakistani political elites fight it out among themselves over the possible outcomes of existing political situations, obscured from the ...

When the world was overwhelmed with war mania and political revolutions, John Lennon was painting an image of a beautiful ...

Since time unknown we are telling our people through schoolbooks, newspapers, Friday sermons, Jihadi rallies, dramas, songs and movies that ...

In the long moments that divided a country into two, lives, dreams, families and parchments of history seemed to have ...

I was a young graduate student in England when the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted and brought the world to the ...

The story narrated here is nearly true. The names, location and the timeframe have deliberately been masked to make the ...

Pakistan is once again all set to become a center-piece in the new emerging Cold War between the United States ...

Introduction Rape has always been used as a weapon of war in major wars including World War 2. However, this ...