Indian government has recently decided to delay the next round of the bilateral energy talks with the U.S. that was supposed to be held earlier this January. The diplomatic scandal that broke out a month ago is miles away from completion. The political bomb detonated on December 12, 2013 when...

Relations between India and the U.S. continue deteriorating after the discriminatory actions the U.S. authorities have taken in the regard of the Indian vice-consul Devyani Khobragade, that was arrested despite the fact that she was an official Indian representative to the UN. In response...

The US’ decision to effect “pivot” to Asia has also stimulated some major powers of Asia to build their strangleholds across different countries. The underlying logic for this policy shift is the threat perception they have from this and many other strategic moves of the US. In a...

President Obama has recently called India one of the main partners of the United States in the 21st century, he also noted that India as a partner is of vital strategic importance to the U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific region and around the Globe. The United States is one of the leading

The killing of Hakimullah Mahsud on November 1, 2103 in a drone attack is said to have derailed the peace process, however fragile it was, between Pakistan and the Taliban (TTP and that serious resentment is being observed among the Pakistani authorities over the US strategy...

The election on November 7, 2013 by the TTP Shura (council in North Waziristan of Maulana Fazlullah, as the new leader of the Taliban Movement of Pakistan (TTP makes significant adjustments in the activities of the organization, and the political situation in Pakistan...

In a mid-November address to Pakistan's national assembly, the country's interior minister, Chaudhry Nisar, stated that the government ought to put off its efforts to negotiate with the Pakistani Taliban. His admonition came on the heels of the refusal of the group's new leader...

The tragedy of September 11, 2001 shocked the whole world with its senseless brutality. These attacks resulted in the former U.S. President George W. Bush declaring  war on international terrorism. Washington said that the enemy was “Al – Qaeda”, which found a safe haven...

On November 1, 2013, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in a U.S. airstrike by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs in Pakistan's North Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan. This event took place the day after a statement was made by Prime Minister...

Despite the many economic, social and partially political difficulties, Pakistan’s national economy is still able to “remain afloat”. The rate of economic growth in the 2012-2013 fiscal year amounted to 3.6% (compared with 3.7% in 2011-2012. It is important...

The blast that rang out on September 29 in Peshawar, the main city in Pakistan’s north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was, evidently, an additional attempt at thwarting the process of normalization that has been developing  in the country since this year’s May 11 parliamentary elections...

This August shots were heard again on the Indian-Pakistan border. This alarming news was brought from South Asia by news agencies. According to the Indian military officers, five Indian soldiers were killed by Pakistanis earlier this month during a patrol in the Poonch sector on the Line of...