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Besides, regional and international law, both India and Pakistan have their own constitutional laws related to the Kashmir Dispute. Article 370 of the Indian Constitution links the legislative competence of the Parliament on Kashmir to the Instrument of Accession. It may be noted that the Instrument of Accession, on which Article 370 lays the foundation of its relationship with Indian …

Recently, through a classified report, the Balochistan government conveyed to the federal government and law enforcement agencies a warning of increased footprints of the terrorist group ISIS or Daesh in the country. The report says that the ISIS has recruited 10,000 to 12,000 followers from the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Kurram tribal district. The organization has created a …

Feelings of animosity and friendship have existed among the human groups and societies since the inception of this world. In the primitive period, the people, living either in an organized group or as individual, had the feelings to minimize the threats and maximize the benefits of peace and cooperation. In other words, from old days to modern world, individuals and …

The seven-decade rivalry between India and Pakistan is often portrayed as intractable — with good reason. The countries were birthed out of a bloody partition that encouraged each to define itself in opposition to the other, and they have fought four wars since then. Even during peacetime, tensions remain high. This year, though, encouraging overtures by the prime ministers of …

Great and venerated are the IDPs who have sacrificed their today for the tomorrow of the whole nation. They left their homes and businesses for a greater cause of securing Pakistan. They were braving all the atrocities and brutalities of terrorists to lead their lives. They coexisted with the militants but never embraced their bigotry and bestiality. But, when called, …

Over the last two decades, numerous analysts have hailed India as the next global power. This resulted partly from the marked acceleration in India’s economic growth rate following reform process initiated in 1991. India’s GDP grew at 6% per year for most of the 1990s, 5.5% from 1998 to 2002, and soared to nearly 9% from 2003 to 2007, before …

The success of Daesh — erstwhile ISIS or ISIL — against the Iraqi military and the success of the Taliban in Afghanistan apparently look two different cases; however, they have something in common which glaringly shows the ultimate failure of the twenty-first century grand strategy of the US. As a part of its strategy, the US aimed at first destroying …

Ever since the demise of the Communist threat in 1991, the leading scholars have been proliferating their visions as to how the world politics would reshape. Amongst all, Samuel P. Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’ theory has been ruling the academic debate for past two decades. According to Huntington’s hallucination, the conflicts of post Cold War era would occur along the …

A little more than a year after it was broached, a new multilateral bank in Asia — the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) — was born in Beijing on Oct 24, 2014, signalling in the process the failure of hectic lobbying by the United States against the move. The AIIB, along with the other new China-based institution, the BRICS Bank, …

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s latest visit to Beijing aroused great interest as well as curiosity among the people, especially after governmental claims on the outcome of the visit. According to Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal, at least 19 agreements were signed during this visit, involving a huge portfolio of Chinese investment worth $45.6 billion. There were all sorts of speculations on …