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By Muhammad Azam Khan Earlier, last year the security of Gwadar port was entrusted to Pakistan Navy. The task has since been conscientiously executed via an agile and efficient Marine battalion of the navy. Sited roughly 635 km from Karachi and 120 km from the Iranian border by road, Pakistan’s strategic port of Gwadar constitutes what may be called “bedrock” …

BY Dr Kamal Monnoo Pakistan must change tactics in the post Obama world Well, in less than a month Mr. Trump is poised to become the most powerful man in the world and here in Pakistan we have a government and its foreign office still struggling to decipher how to constructively engage him. Being somewhat linked with the diplomatic corps, …

President Trump has signaled that he will seek dialogue with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Trump has rightly shown that (1) he will resist rigid thinking and outmoded Cold War attitudes, which are too prevalent in both the United States and Russia; and (2) he will pursue relations with Russia grounded on U.S. interests and the search for areas of potential …

In many cases, outsiders looking in at the women in Islam perceive their role to be one associated with several negative connotations. These stereotypical stigmas force the women within the Islamic culture to be somewhat guarded because these social stigmas infringe on their culture and personality as an individual. One of the most common misconceptions is that women live under …

The ambitious China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, touted by both countries as a “game changer”, is an agreement that seems destined to put other regional partnerships — including the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) — in cold storage, triggering tensions and consequent militarization. Increasingly, it appears likely to lead to a new “great game” in the region. The goal? Domination …

Economic history of Central and South Asia is largely associated with the connectivity of trade and natural and human resources among the peoples of Central and South Asian countries. The silk rout and the Grand Trunk road (famously known as ‘GT Road’ in Pakistan and India) have been providing the major source of this connectivity. In the bipolar regime in …

by: Dr Salman Shah In an open letter to the IMF carried by Business Recorder (October 24, 2016), Dr Ashfaque Hassan Khan, Dr Hafeez Pasha and this writer had reminded the IMF that the recently concluded EFF programme with Pakistan had not produced the victory that was being proclaimed by the government and the IMF through the media. We showed …

By: Zarina Patel With the invention of internet, the world transformed into a virtual global village. Today if you have an internet connection, you have at your fingertips endless opportunities, treasure of knowledge, up-to-date information, powerful social network, interactive multimedia etc. No doubt, internet has a prominent place in our lives. With the new technology on smart phones, and android, …

By: Dr. Ghulam Murtaza Khuhro What is Sci-tech-human power complex? And, how it is reshaping global society, economics, politics and everything around us? Are Sci-tech-human power complex and   STI (science, technology, and innovation) same? No, they are not. Sci-tech-human power complex is much more than STI in many respects. STI represents one aspect of Sci-tech-human power complex whereas its other …

By Wajid Shamsul Hasan Terrorists have once again struck Quetta — perhaps our law enforcers’ Achilles heel. In August Balochistan Bar Association’s former president was killed followed by scores of other lawyers in bomb attack. Despite heavy presence of the assortment of security agencies including army, Frontier Constabulary, police, levis and all brands of intelligence agencies infesting the nook and …