Military
Repercussions of Turkey Receiving the S-400
The first shipment of the S-400 missile has arrived at Murted Airbase, making it the first time that a major NATO member has made an arms deal with Russia. Following the failure to procure an […]
Politics
Politics
The BJP’s Win: Way Forward for Pakistan
The media portrayed the recently held Indian elections as a mixture of domestic issues, governance, prime ministerial candidates and of course, performance. Narendra Modi’s real fame is his Hindu-fundamentalism and anti-Muslim sentiments which led to […]
Analysis
India’s Afghan Follies
On July 10-11, 2019 Pakistani diplomats joined their US, Russian and Chinese counterparts in Beijing to discuss the Afghan peace process. The talks were aimed at strengthening efforts towards an intra-Afghan dialogue between the Taliban […]
Politics
Emerging Triangular Competition in the Indo-Pacific Region
“Whosoever controls the waves, controls the world.” (Alfred Thayer Mahan) In the great games of geopolitics and the quest for global dominance, control over the world’s oceanic bodies holds preeminence. Although the US naval strategist […]
Analysis
Pak-US Relations and the Future!
Alliances in international relations are marriages of temporary convenience(John J. Mearsheimer) Despite the doubts and speculations, Prime Minister Imran Khan has been scheduled to meet the American President Donald Trump on 22 July 2019. This […]
Politics
Establishing Synergies in Pak-Iran Relations
Pakistan and Iran share geographical border besides ties of common faith, culture and history. Both countries have experienced ups and downs in their bilateral relationship. The ‘Iranian Revolution’ in 1979 had drastically changed the situation […]
Politics
Trump, Kim and Diplomacy
On Sunday, 29th June, while attending the G-20 summit in Osaka, President Donald Trump tweeted: “If Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand […]
Economy
Afghan Peace Process: Regional Stakeholders Eyeing a Piece of the Afghan Pie
The last seventeen years of Afghan history have only witnessed inconsequential and trivial progress towards peace in Afghanistan. Hollow promises and ill-conceived rigid positions have often made progress in the peace process slow, if not […]
Analysis
Is America receding into self-isolation or is the balance of power shifting?
Since the end of Cold War and the obsolescence of the bipolar world order, global politics took a new and unprecedented turn. Realists in international relations thought surmised that because maintaining balance in a multi-polar […]
Politics
Political waves in South China Sea
Located in the Pacific Ocean, south of China, east of Vietnam, west of Philippines and home to presumably large oil reserves and natural resources., South China Sea holds the prominence in international politics, which is […]