Posted by Faheem Belharvi The maritime challenges for Pakistan are compounded by its strategic location. Situated at the confluence of three important regions of the world, namely Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia, being astride the Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz, in close proximity to global energy highway, makes Pakistan a key regional state. The Strait of Hormuz - a strategic waterway - provide ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Monday, March 04, 2013 - Since the inception of Pakistan, Balochistan is considered the most deprived and backward province of Pakistan. Reasons behind this deprivation are multiple and manifold. Historically speaking, British during their rule did not pay much attention to the development of Balochistan due to the highly centralized policies. Consequently, It remained one of the m ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Wednesday, March 06, 2013 - India see itself as a rising regional power and as it is said that rising powers seek to enhance their security and agenda by increasing their capabilities and their control over the external environment so India is doing exactly the same by adopting a more proactive role in its extended neighborhood that is Afghanistan so that they can control the exter ...

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER ‘The death toll rose to at least 37 in violence sparked by a controversial death sentence handed down against the head of an Islamic party for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 war of independence’, reported The Los Angeles Times on the first day of this March. The paper further says, ‘Tensions have been running high in recent weeks as verdicts were announced in the tria ...

Eric Margolis Secretary of Defence is the second most important and the toughest job in the US government after President.Since the 9/11 attacks, US foreign policy has become highly militarised. The Pentagon today dominates US relations with the rest of the world, not the State Department or CIA. The Pentagon’s 2013 total budget will be $800 billion when all programmes, including ‘black’ projects, are inclu ...

by Major John Evans   MY previous experience in Pakistan included looking down on Peshawar from the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan and receiving some rocket fire from the eastern side of the border while in Asadabad. Despite this, I was aware that the media’s portrayal of Pakistan was not entirely accurate and I was looking forward to my stay at the Command and Staff College in Quetta. However, I never could ha ...

 By Chris Francescani For more than a week, jurors in the federal kidnapping conspiracy trial of so-called New York "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle have been exposed to talk, imagery and video detailing extraordinary brutality against women. On Tuesday, defense attorneys are set to begin presenting their case but jurors will not get a chance to hear from Valle himself, according to Stephanie Cirkovich, spokes ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Tuesday, March 05, 2013 - There is no doubt that the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan is not just a conflict of unfinished partition plan approved by the King and the British parliament, but history shows it was all done by design and thus a legacy of British colonial rule; today it has a central place in the troubled relationship of the two neighbors India and Pakistan ...