Pakistan’s offer for talks The Excelsior 28 Jan 2023

Pakistan’s offer for talks The Excelsior 28 Jan 2023

Pakistan’s offer for talks The Excelsior 28 Jan 2023           In an interview to Al Arabiya news channel in the UAE, Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s PM, stating that Pakistan has learnt its lesson from past wars, mentioned, ‘My message to the Indian leadership and PM Modi is that let us sit down on the table and have serious and sincere talks […]

Terrorism: Is Pak hosting IS Khorasan on its soil India vs Disinformation 24 Jan 2023

Terrorism: Is Pak hosting IS Khorasan on its soil India vs Disinformation 24 Jan 2023

Terrorism: Is Pak hosting IS Khorasan on its soil India vs Disinformation 24 Jan 2023           ‘A leaked Taliban internal memo reports of ISKP (Islamic State Khorasan Province) training camps inside Pakistan’s tribal area and warns of ISKP cadre massing from Pakistan into their Logar province,’ Bilal Sarwary, an independent journalist recently said in his tweet attaching with it the […]

TTP’s ideology will be difficult to defeat The Statesman 17 Jan 2023

TTP’s ideology will be difficult to defeat The Statesman 17 Jan 2023

TTP’s ideology will be difficult to defeat The Statesman 17 Jan 2023           Shamil Shams writes in an article in The Dawn in 2016, titled ‘Before and After Zia-ul Haq’, ‘Pakistani decision makers have found religious extremists a natural choice for alliance/usage as tools of foreign policy.’ He justifies his statement by stating, ‘the centrist, post-colonial state dominated by the […]

Indian diplomatic offensive puts pressure on Pakistan The Statesman 27 Dec 2022

Indian diplomatic offensive puts pressure on Pakistan The Statesman 27 Dec 2022

Indian diplomatic offensive puts pressure on Pakistan The Statesman 27 Dec 2022           India has, in recent times, undertaken a collection of initiatives aimed at countering terrorism. In Nov this year, India hosted the ‘3rd ministerial conference on Countering Financing of Terrorism (CFT).’ Over 70 nations and 15 multilateral organizations participated. Amongst prominent absentee nations were Pakistan and Afghanistan. India […]

Deteriorating Pak-Afghan ties India vs disinformation 26 Dec 2022

Deteriorating Pak-Afghan ties India vs disinformation 26 Dec 2022

Deteriorating Pak-Afghan ties India vs disinformation 26 Dec 2022           Last weekend in their most audacious and serious attack, 33 TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) militants, under detention in the Bannu Counter terrorism Department Centre in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa overpowered guards and held them hostage. Initially they demanded a safe passage to Afghanistan, which they later changed to moving them anywhere in North […]

Lessons not learnt from 1971 war by Pakistan The Statesman 13 Dec 2022

Lessons not learnt from 1971 war by Pakistan The Statesman 13 Dec 2022

Lessons not learnt from 1971 war by Pakistan The Statesman 13 Dec 2022           While India and Bangladesh celebrate the 51st anniversary of their victory over the marauding Pak army in 1971 on 16th Dec, Pakistan continues to attempt to exorcise the ghost of defeat. As recently as last month, Pakistan’s former army chief General Bajwa blamed the defeat on […]

Ghost of 1971 war still looms large on Pakistan India vs disinformation 04 Dec 2022

Ghost of 1971 war still looms large on Pakistan India vs disinformation 04 Dec 2022

Ghost of 1971 war still looms large on Pakistan India vs disinformation 04 Dec 2022           General Bajwa, a few days before he retired, stated in an address, ‘I want to correct some facts here. Former East Pakistan was a political failure and not a military one.’ He also mentioned that Pakistan only had 34,000 soldiers in East Pakistan, and […]

General Bajwa’s farewell speech and thereafter The Excelsior 28 Nov 2022

General Bajwa’s farewell speech and thereafter The Excelsior 28 Nov 2022

General Bajwa’s farewell speech and thereafter The Excelsior 28 Nov 2022           Speaking for possibly the last time as an army chief on a public platform, General Bajwa made a few interesting comments. He stated that in Feb last year the army took a call to stay away from politics and hence did not intervene in the ‘no-confidence’ vote which […]

Imran’s U turns have added to the confusion The Excelsior 25 Nov 2022

Imran’s U turns have added to the confusion The Excelsior 25 Nov 2022

Imran’s U turns have added to the confusion The Excelsior 25 Nov 2022           Pakistan is heading for further internal unrest. Imran is moving his party cadre towards Islamabad and Rawalpindi intent on creating havoc, violence and forcing his agenda for early elections as also interfering in the appointment of the new army chief. He is aware that delay in […]

Pakistan Corruption runs deep amongst Pak army generals India vs disinformation 23 Nov 2022

Pakistan Corruption runs deep amongst Pak army generals India vs disinformation 23 Nov 2022

Pakistan: Corruption runs deep amongst Pak army generals India vs disinformation 23 Nov 2022           The Pakistan army has been in the headlines for multiple reasons in the recent past, none of which have been noteworthy. Imran has been training his guns on the generals for removing him from his chair to meet the demands of the US. Though he […]