By Khalid Iqbal In a follow-up action to his recent visit to India, President Obama’s half an hour phone call to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has set the stage for resumption of Pakistan-India dialogue. New Indian Foreign Secretary is likely to visit Pakistan to resume the process from the point his predecessor had disrupted. However, at the same time, worrisome estimates are pouring in from divergent source ...

By Khalid Iqbal During the recent Pakistan-Turkey summit, both sides explored options to assist Afghanistan in reaching a peace agreement with the Taliban. Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu had an extensive agenda, including looking beyond bilateral cooperation and playing a role in stabilising Afghanistan. Due to Turkic demographic belt running from West Asia to East Asia through Afghanistan, Turkey has an a ...

Saima Afzal  “The Clash of Civilization” by Samuel P. Huntington was a thought provoking as well as profound theory against Muslim World. His article was published in 1993, in the Foreign Affairs. In his theory, he mentioned that there is no conflict between the ideologies in the world, but between civilization, where different cultures and religious identities are the main factor in creating cooperation or ...

By  Ali Sukhanver Have you ever heard of a landslide dam? A landslide dam is also known as Debris dam or Barrier Lake. It is a natural damming of a river by some kind of mass wasting: debris flow, rock flooding or landslide. Some landslide dams are higher than the largest existing artificial dam. The water locked away by a landslide dam may create a lake-like dam reservoir which may last from short times to ...

By Asif Haroon Raja 16 hours long marathon talks were held in Belarus between the delegates of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France on February 15, 2015. A road map to peace in Ukraine’s war was finally secured. Hopefully, it will put an end to the escalating bloodshed in the region. The fruits of the talks are however yet to be seen on ground as the fighting between Kiev government forces and Russian backed ...

 By Brig® Mehboob Qadir Prosperity is by the grace of God; poverty arrives from elsewhere. The two are incompatible through a different Rhesus Factor. Unlike general but abstract understanding of poverty, what is going to be discussed here is an upshot of such overpowering destitution where everything material and moral is severely scarce. In our calculus moral poverty versus the material poverty takes a hi ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the modern world, there are various forms of bloodless wars like economic wars which amount to aggression. In these terms, besides supporting subversive acts including cross-bordering shelling, India has also stared water aggression against Pakistan. In March, 2011, while speaking in diplomatic language, Indus Water Commissioner of India G. Ranganathan had refused by stating, “Indian de ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی گز شتہ دنوں بحیرہ عرب میں بھارتی پانیوں کے عین قریب بقول نئی دہلی کے ‘ پاکستان کی جانب سے آتی ہوئی ایک مشکوک کشتی کی تباہی نے دنیا میں تہلکہ مچا دیا ،بھارتی میڈیا چیخ پڑا ،میڈیا کے کچھ حصے جو ’را‘ اور دیگر بھارتی ایجنسیوں کے رابطے میں تھے، اُنہوں نے ممبئی دھماکوں کی طرح اِس مشکوک کشتی کی آمد اور کشتی میں سوار مبینہ مسلح افراد پر دہشت گرد ی کا لیبل چسپاں کردیااور اِس کاالزام ماضی کی روایا ...