Year: 2009

Perpetually hostile neighbors: India and Pakistan are in a state of active hostility-if not war or at least two proxy wars. At least 6 of Pak Army 9 Corps are on the border with...

Division of water resources: Partition of the sub-continent in 1947 divided the largest contiguousirrigation system within theIndus Rive, while many of the canal head-works...

Division of water resources: Partition of the sub-continent in 1947 divided the largest contiguousirrigation system within theIndus Rive, while many of the canal head-works...

Division of water resources: Partition of the sub-continent in 1947 divided the largest contiguousirrigation system within theIndus Rive, while many of the canal head-works...

Demographics of Swat: Of the over 5 million residents of Swat, nearly 2 million have now been internally displaced (including people from FATA and Malakand Division)....

Demographics of Swat: Of the over 5 million residents of Swat, nearly 2 million have now been internally displaced (including people from FATA and Malakand Division)....

Insurgencies take long to be eliminated: Once Mujahideen (Holy Warriors) and now Insurgents, both domestic and imported, are bent upon capturing Pakistani territory. Pakistani...

The rise of the obscurantist: One of the battle zones is the northern Bajaur area, separated from the eastern Afghan province Kunar. Bordering this region is the Malakand area,...

Pakistan is engaged in multi-theater wars; a total of four theaters that are all inter as well as intra connected (a single theater of war is defined as a 'specific geographical...

Situation now: As of the end of April 2009, Afghan insurgents have killed 90 foreign soldiers marking a 67 percent increase from the same period of 2008. The UN and European...