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China feels it is its legitimate right to keep the South China Sea off-limits. China also needs to secure its forces in the South China Sea and modify its maritime strategy and doctrine accordingly. Currently, the primary wartime missions of the People’s Liberation Army Navy are: 1)...

China has long been a suspect for having ambitions beyond its territorial waters. This is because it has been struggling very hard to secure its energy routes from Hong Kong to Port Sudan. Its sea lanes of communication (SLOC) run through the strategic choke points like Bab al Mandab, Strait of...

The journey towards a bipolar world has already commenced and some believe that the principal route of this journey will be through the waters of South China Sea. The bipolarity lost at the end of previous century will be rediscovered in a matter of less than a decade, say some assessments. If...

You have missed the point. When USA and Afghan government are begging the Taliban to sit on negotiating table, why should Pakistan ignore their importance. TTP is a different ball game. You and everyone know whose bidding they are doing. Those who are fighting Pakistan with American money and...

Afghan Taliban have not so far attacked Pakistan forces or hurt Pakistan interests. They have proved to be Pakistan's asset. Pakistani establishment should repair its ties with them. They are going to take Afghanistan and it is going to be a replay of 1996. The successful attack on the "Ring of...

It is time that strategists in Pakistani establishment start thinking about their future policies. It is high time for Pakistan to revisit its Taliban relations.

Syed Saleem Shahzad, a little-known Pakistani journalist working for an equally little-known online newspaper died a mysterious death a few days before his book, Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, was to go on sale. The evidence suggested that he was tortured before death. The immediate reaction...

The attack on the icons of America’s economic and military powers, twin towers and Pentagon, changed the world instantly. The change did not take place due to the terrorist attacks; the world was changed by the massive reaction and fury of the sole super power. Within a period of one month, an...

China has long been a suspect for having ambitions beyond its territorial waters. This is because it has been struggling very hard to secure its energy routes from Hong Kong to Port Sudan. Its sea lanes of communication (SLOC) run through the strategic choke points like Bab al Mandab, Strait of...

If the tension on this sea intensifies, the world will witness global realignment into Allied and Axis powers as a prelude to First World Naval War. Presently, all nine states that touch the South China Sea are more or less arrayed against China and, therefore, dependent on the United States for...

In fact injustice, poverty and the caste system put together are responsible for India’s national security problems. This insurgency is India’s hidden war and is sparked by multiple factors. The insurgents have their objectives clearly drawn; they want to get hold of Indian’s wealth. It is not...

US has lost the war and trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money along-with it. No wonder, the losing army now wants to wage a war against Pakistan. Everything including the draw-down and the smear campaign against Pakistan's security establishment is taking place in accordance with a...

India had joined BRIC to become a part of 4 nations' economic power block. Now it is being sought after in other blocks. Can someone answer the question as to how India with per capita GDP very close to Pakistan's can become such an economic power?

In order to silence the enemies of Pakistan, such as those who have now started talking about "balkanizing", the only thing that Pakistanis can do is to tighten their belts and strengthen the economy. And this is the job that can not be done by 70% who have already done enough. This is the...