Ashraf Ghani finds himself pitched against deeply-entrenched beliefs about Pakistan in Afghanistan’s security establishment. The July 12 suicide car bombing near a military base...
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Q2 Security Report – 2015
Second Quarter 2015 - Introduction A year after the Pakistani military launched the multi-pronged counter-terror Operation Zarb-e-Azb in the North Waziristan region, and nearly...
Development of Chabahar Port and the Strategic Turf Wars between Regional Rivals
The landlocked Afghanistan has been using the port of Karachi in Pakistan for its international trade for decades but with the development of the strategically located Chabahar...
Terrorism hits Foreign Investment in Pakistan
Empirical studies conducted by independent economists suggest that a slight uptick in the “perceived risk of terrorism” can lead to an “outsized reduction” in the FDI that a...
The Terrorism Debate: Flogging the Wrong Horse
Pakistan’s current debate on terrorism apparently suffers from an acute lack of understanding of the real issues that lie at the heart of its security crisis. Much of the...
'Find, Fix, Finish'
Few innovations in modern warfare have seduced US presidents as thoroughly as the Predator drone, upstaged in more recent years by its bigger and even deadlier cousin, the...
‘Find, Fix, Finish’
Few innovations in modern warfare have seduced US presidents as thoroughly as the Predator drone, upstaged in more recent years by its bigger and even deadlier cousin, the...
Afghanistan: Light at the End of the Tunnel
A triple ‘S’ ambience accompanied the intra-Afghan peace talks at Murree: shock, surprise and scepticism. The talks first came as a shock to the detractors of Afghan President...
One more PLA Senior Officer busted, total now at 38
PLA disciplinary inspectors on Friday said they are investigating Deng Ruihua, former political commissar of the joint logistics department of Lanzhou...
‘Extorted’ Donations: Karachi’s multi-million dollar Charity Business
BACKGROUND- During the Islamic holy month of fasting – “Ramzan”- there are two Islmaic obligations which according to “sharia” are compulsory on all Muslims; “Zakat” and “Fitra”....
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