Afghanistan: Implications of the decisions at the Heart of Asia Ministerial Conference
The recently held ‘Heart of Asia’ ministerial conference, held in Islamabad on December 9, 2015, has been a welcoming development. President Ghani’s visit to...
Post-Paris Scenario in Europe
9/11 brought a new shift in international relations as terrorism was described as an existential threat to the world. President George W. Bush emphasized...
Pakistan: Misperceptions about Nuclear Stockpiles
Recently, Western and Indian analysts have widely publicized unsubstantiated assumptions that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is growing at a rapid pace, and that the country...
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014. Carlotta Gall. Gurgaon: Penguin Books, 2014. Pp....
Even as America wraps up its ‘long war’ in Afghanistan, it has failed to completely wipe out the Al-Qaeda and other terrorist outfits operating...
Kashmir: New Voices, New Approaches. Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, Bushra Asif and Cyrus Samii,...
The Jammu and Kashmir issue is a longstanding dispute that goes back to the time when India and Pakistan gained independence. Winnowing out the...
Pakistan: Terrorism Ground Zero. Rohan Gunaratna and Khuram Iqbal. London: Reaktion Books, 2010. Pp....
The book “Pakistan Terrorism Ground Zero” considers the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent relocation of Al-Qaeda to FATA as the square one...
Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century. Shashi Tharoor. New Delhi:...
Shashi Tharoor, a renowned Indian diplomat and politician wrote Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century to substantiate and elaborate the...
Xi Jinping: The Governance of China. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2014. Pp. 515. (Book...
China is fast emerging as a super power and the world’s largest economy, and according to some criteria it has even surpassed the US....
The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics. Andrew Small. London: Hurst & Company, 2015. Pp....
As the US pivots towards the Asia-Pacific, China, its principal nemesis in the game of contemporary internationals geopolitics, has focused its attention towards South,...
88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary. Robert L. Grenier. New York: Simon &...
Secret meetings at midnight, discreet whisperings in the aircraft cabins, juggling with colleagues, co-opting moles, roof-top encrypted satellite conversations, clandestine reporting from recruits, exciting...
