Kashmir: Paradise on Earth or a Nuclear Flashpoint By Laura Schuurmans After the partition of India under the British Empire in 1947, Pakistan and India became two independent nations. The treaty of partition was based on the ‘Two Nation Theory’ which clearly stated that all parts of India with a Muslim majority would become part of Pakistan and those with a Hindu majority would become part of Hindustan, to ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi While nearing the completion of its legal term of five years, the National Assembly of Pakistan has created history by unanimously passing the much needed “Fair Trial Bill-2012” on 21 December, 2012. The Bill which now needs to be passed by the Senate and then signed by the President Asif Ali Zardari to become the law of the land is a landmark achievement of the legislature. Fair T ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Pakistan’s Port of Gwadar, 267 Miles West of Karachi and 43.5 Miles East of Pakistan-Iran border, bears a great strategic value vis-à-vis the Straits of Hormuz, the life line of energy to the outside world. On average, around 36000 ships transit through Pakistan’s area of sea interest annually. The average trade of the country hovers around 38 million tons out of 95% is through sea ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi (Friday Feature) Muhammad (whose name means "highly praised") was born in Mecca in 570 AD. His father died shortly before his birth, and he lost his mother at the age of six. The young orphan was then raised primarily by his uncle, for whom he worked as a shepherd. At age 9 (some sources say 12), he joined his uncle on a caravan to Syria. As a young man, Muhammad worked as a camel ...

By our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Pakistan strongly rejected the Indian allegation of an attack across the Line of Control (LoC) on its military patrol in which two Indian soldiers were claimed to have been killed. "These are baseless and unfounded allegations", said the Foreign Office. In a statement issued by the Foreign Office, it was maintained that Pakistan was prepared to hold investigations through th ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - Karachi—The Thar Coal Project which has the potential to change the energy landscape of Pakistan continues to moving slowly the good intentions of the Prime Minister and the country’s economic managers notwithstanding. Stakeholders believe that vested interests are ensuring it does not happen. The cost of the project is a big issue as it would require in ...

This Mapping Document draws on ten expert papers commissioned under the CIDOB project “Sources of Tension in Afghanistan & Pakistan: A Regional Perspective” (STAP RP), together with the analytical outputs of project round table seminars and in-region research (September 2011-November 2012); and interviews with a wide range of stakeholders in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Europe over the same period. The doc ...

Copyright © 2012 by Robert D. Kaplan Maps copyright © 2012 by David Lindroth, Inc. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. The preface contains material from four earlier titles by Robert D. Kaplan: Soldiers of God ...