By Asif Haroon Raja The short and intense war between the two arch rivals - India and Pakistan- has changed the geopolitical calculus of South Asia. Its reverberations are felt in South Asia, the Middle East and the whole of the globe. Creation of Pakistan on 14 Aug 1947 was a miracle of the 20th century. Pakistan becoming the first Islamic nuclear state in May 1998 was another miracle. Achievement of spect ...

By Zaheerul HassanIndia attacked Pakistan’s territory between 6th, 7th and 8th May 2025 night at nine places, 31 innocent civilians’ martyred and 61 people including children and women injured. Three innocent children were martyred in Bahawalpur and Mazzafarbaf. The details include: Ahmedpur East, Masjid Subhanullah — 13 martyred | two 3-year-old girls, seven women, four men. 37 injured | nine women, 28 men ...

By Asif Haroon Raja After the humiliation suffered by IAF at the hands of PAF in the air duels on 27 Feb 2019, Modi lamented that if India had Rafael stealth fighter jets, which cannot be detected by radars, the outcome would have been different. He overlooked the age-old dictum that it is the man behind the gun who matters and not the gun itself. The receipt of a batch of 36 Rafael from France bolstered th ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The overall security situation of Pakistan is getting worse and worse. Reentry of Indian and American influence into Afghanistan, readiness of Haibatullah regime to support TTP and to cooperate with western and Indian intelligence agencies, and reactivation of Greater Pashtunistan Movement and Greater Baluchistan Movement aimed at separating the two flanks from Pakistan have made the sit ...

By Asif Haroon Raja “I have learnt from history that people do not learn from history”. Napoleon Bonaparte Post-1971 Challenges After the emergence of Bangladesh (BD) in Jan 1972, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and other Awami League (AL) leaders admitted that they had contingency plans in case the Army decided to use force. (The Deliberate Debacle, by Dr. Safdar Mehmood, 1976, p 128-9). Three contingency battle pla ...

By Zaheerul Hassan ICC approved PCB-proposed 'fusion formula’ to hold 2025 Champion Cricket Trophy accepted by India. According to this formula, till 2026, Pakistan and India will play their matches against each other on neutral venue of Colombo and Dubai. Pakistan did not ask any extra or additional funds in case of change of venue. In fact, except India all other ICC members’ countries supported Pakistani ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Iran under Reza Shah Pahlavi When Iran was ruled by the Mosaddeq led regime, it was the first Muslim country to recognize Pakistan in 1947. After his ouster in a CIA-Mi-6 sponsored coup in 1953, as long as Reza Shah Pahlavi was ruling Iran, Pakistan’s southern backyard resting on the 1110 km long Arabian Sea coastline was safe and secure. Both were strategic partners. 19% Shias in Pakist ...

By Asif Haroon Raja India is a war monger and an expansionist country which considers itself as the successor of the British Raj. Ruled by 2.8% Brahmans, India desires to become an unchallenged super power of South Asia and the policeman of the Indo-Pacific region. It also dreams of mythical Mahabharata. It has disputes with all its seven neighboring states. India's external enemies are China and Pakistan b ...