As ‘Guardian’ put it recently, “for democracy to function, you need a civically informed electorate and a fourth estate that functions...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently announced the successful test-firing of a rocket, which shot down one of its live satellites orbiting...
In 1945 Sardar Kavalam Madhava Pannikar, was perhaps the first Indian thinker to state that whoever controlled Indian Ocean, would have India at his...
India is a constitutional democracy and a secular state, as claimed by its citizens, but the existing ground realties reveal the opposite. Its...
Allowing persons in public service to ease out into premature retirement, with full benefits in most cases, without first holding them accountable...
In 1988, a US Navy ship shot down an Iran Air passenger jet in which all 290 passengers perished. The ship’s crew claimed that the aircraft...
PNS/M Ghazi, formerly USS Diablo, was leased to Pakistan Navy in 1964. It was the first submarine to be inducted in South Asia region and it had an...
It was Plato who said, ‘Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something’. General Bipin Rawat,...
While it is Christopher Columbus’ 4,000-mile voyage in 1492 to Bahamas that dominates history books, it is actually the 12,000 miles of voyages of...
In a speech delivered at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, US Defence Secretary James Mattis announced that countering...
Speaking at a book launch, General Ehsanul Haq, the former chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee , warned against India shedding its pretence of...
In days long gone, old sailors used to rotate their heads back and forth to determine wind direction until they could feel it blowing...
Exercise ‘AMAN’-17 has been planned by Pakistan Navy in the North Arabian Sea from 10 to 14 February, 2017. It is a multinational...
Exercise ‘AMAN’-17 has been planned by Pakistan Navy in the North Arabian Sea from 10 to 14 February, 2017. It is a multinational...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s excessive obsession with Kashmir and a strong anti-Muslim streak in his personal chemistry have been...
As the Indian Navy prepares for Golden Jubilee celebrations next year to commemorate induction of its first submarine in 1967, it was struck by a...
In the history of modern warfare, existential threat perceptions and asymmetry in conventional weaponry between adversaries have served as the...
The idea of recognizing a nation state’s special rights over sea space outside territorial limits and calling it Exclusive Economic Zone is a...
The idea of recognizing a nation state’s special rights over sea space outside territorial limits and calling it Exclusive Economic Zone is a...
Piracy at sea with all its lore and literature is not new and is believed to have existed in turbulent periods as early as 14th century BC when sea...
Piracy at sea with all its lore and literature is not new and is believed to have existed in turbulent periods as early as 14th century BC when sea...
Imperial Japan’s militaristic trajectory came to an end in Tokyo Bay in September 1945 with the signing of surrender instrument onboard Battleship...
Nearly nine months after the attack on the Army Public School, Peshawar in December 2014, the TTP struck again at the Pakistan Air Force Camp...
The world recently observed the International Day of Democracy which was the result of an initiative taken some years ago by Corazon C Aquino,...
In the maritime environments of 21st century, oceans are coming under increasingly sharp focus as new power centers emerge due to nation states...
In the maritime environments of 21st century, oceans are coming under increasingly sharp focus as new power centers emerge due to nation states...
Sometimes the animal world brings a whole new perspective to the phrase ‘you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’. It is really an amazing...
President Ayub Khan's brief address to the nation on 6th September 1965 was a moment when history of Pakistan took a turn. It was a moment we...
Child abuse is a violation of the most basic rights of children enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 19 of the Convention...
After decades of animosity, Iran and the US, along with its international partners, concluded what has been described as a comprehensive, long-term...
Cycles of bonhomie after acrimony have become the hallmark of Indo-Pak relations. This was in full display yet again at Ufa a few days ago. The...
In a rather unusual manner, the Ministry of Interior recently expressed its displeasure over a court’s observation, where during hearing of an...
It must have taken quite an effort to convince Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is generally considered to be very cautious when it comes to India,...
In 2003 when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entering the earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts onboard, its Mission Launch...
In the past, former president Asif Ali Zardari had complained of tomcats lapping up all the milk but last week it was his own demeanor that...
Government functionaries hardly miss any occasion when the ‘same-page’ mantra about harmony of thought between the civil and military leadership...
In the aftermath of the Mustang tragedy, yet another all-parties conference was been convened by the chief minister of Balochistan which was chaired...
Hardly a week passes when one or the other politician in Pakistan has not resorted to taunting and shaming his/her adversary. In Pakistan’s rural...
A near-perfect storm is now swirling around capital punishment in Pakistan where a seven-year old moratorium has recently been lifted in the wake of...
