By James Shinn A failing economy, Islamic radicalism and a growing nuclear arsenal make the country a potential hotbed of tail risk. As investors scramble for yield in markets awash with central bank liquidity, their eyes continue to be drawn toward the glitter of emerging markets, including those in the Middle East and South Asia, where I’ve been trolling for the past few weeks to probe the links between p ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi In South Asia, the issue of Jammu and Kashmir has the main catalyst of, “militarization, open and protracted wars, extremism, and underdevelopment.” Northern Areas of Pakistan, renamed as, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), being part of disputed Kashmir state, remained affected for quite some time. This huge landmass and geographically mountainous region of 72,971 square kilometers is sparsel ...

By Joseph Kishore The Obama administration is discussing the expansion of its drone program into Algeria and other countries in northwest Africa, according to media reports. The preparations to extend the military and CIA “kill lists” takes place amidst proposals to more securely institutionalize the global program of assassination. According to a front-page report in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal headline ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Last year Asian giant has made significant increase of 17.6 percent over the previous amount of defence budget for 2011-12. Her defence budget for 2012-13, was US $40.3 billion for the Defence Services that include the three armed forces (Army, Navy and Air Force), the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Ordnance Factories. The major portion of the Civil Estimate is h ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Monday, February 11, 2013 - This year, ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ was observed under peculiar circumstances. Recent violations of ceasefire have brought the Kashmir conflict under renewed focus at the international level. This dispute has been on the agenda of the UN for more than six decades, it is indeed an unfulfilled obligation of the UN. The government and people of Pakistan con ...

   By Sajjad Shaukat                                               With the assistance of anti-Pakistan powers, India which has already been supporting separatism in Balochistan has also accelerated conspiracy against the province of Gilgit-Baltistan by backing the minority nationalist elements which claim an independent Balawaristan there. These external entities are also behind target killings and sectari ...

Professor Ali Sukhanver Recently a Bangladeshi judicial tribunal sentenced life imprisonment to Abdul Qader Mullah, a leader of Jamat-e-Islami, for his role during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971. According to the media reports, somewhere in 2010, the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina initiated the process of trying those accused of committing crimes against humanity during the war, u ...

By Franklin Lamb Tehran -- Azadeh, a graduate law student from Tehran University, on the sidelines of Iran’s Third Annual Hollywoodism (www.hollywoodism.orghttp) reminded her interlocutors, of the obvious damming admissions last week by two US politicians: “It would be a defense lawyer’s worst nightmare wouldn’t it? I mean to have one's clients, in this case the Vice-President of the United States and the o ...