Pak Economic Transformation: Political Stability is Need of the Hour Shahzad Masood Roomi IMF has recently released a report about Pakistan's economic profile which presents a very bleak picture in short to midterm time period. According to report, ...
Indian Renewed Overtures in Afghanistan: Impact on Pakistan’s National Security
Indian Renewed Overtures in Afghanistan: Impact on Pakistan's National Security Pakistan has been in a state of perpetual internal war, fighting a ruthless high frequency, low intensity conflict against multiple proxies since last 2 decades. Various ...
Pak Social Media Dilemma: Hostile Actors Fueling Political & Security Situation
Salman Ahmad On 2 Aug 2022, The Pakistani nation was mourning the martyrdom of six Pak Army officials including Lieutenant General Sarfaraz Ali (Commander XII Corps) in a military helicopter crash during a flood relief operation in Lasbela, Balochis ...
Reconciliation: A Must for Enduring Peace
Muhammad Raza Shah Formally established in 2007, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) remained a largest and most active militant organization in Pakistan. Members of this ethno-centric armed group are mostly Pashtuns belonging to former FATA(Federa ...
Water scarcity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)
PROF. AMJAD HUSSAIN SHAH According to International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pakistan stands third in the world among countries facing severe water shortage that is likely to reach its peak by 2025. Global warming has inflicted huge problems for Pakista ...
Pak Army’s efforts for development in newly merged districts (NMDs)
AMNA NOREEN Erstwhile FATA was a hotbed for the recruitment and training of terrorists after 9/11. Terrorists established their strongholds in this area as the state authority & governance was never extended to these lands since 1947. In absence ...
Ghulam Khan border crossing
SHAHZAD MASOOD ROOMI Afghanistan is strategically an important geography for Pakistan's geo-economics policy which takes center stage in Pakistan's National Security Policy 2022-2026. Landlocked Afghanistan provides Pakistan with a land bridge to co ...
Role of Tribal Youth in actualization of FATA merger
JUMA KHAN SUFI Old habits die hard. The area under discussion had been outside the state parameters for centuries. Only the advent of British imperialism imparted some formal status to these tribes in the view of their history, tradition of independ ...
Social Media as propaganda tool: Challenges & way forward
SALMAN AHMAD Social Media (SM); the platforms of social interaction, instituted for sharing ideas, knowledge, awareness, and infotainment have transformed into a kind of battlefield that has blurred demarcation. As a tool of propaganda and dis ...
State – TTP Truce
JAWAD YOUSAFZAI The negotiations between government of Pakistan and Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) for peace are in progress mediated by a 50-member tribal Jirga and Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan (IEA). So far, a number of meetings held resulting in ceas ...