In January 2014, in anticipation of the withdrawal of coalition troops from Afghanistan, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the head of the Pakistan Federal Cabinet, announced the establishment of a new permanent military base in the Swat valley...

Baluchistan, the energy rich western province of Pakis- tan, has been experiencing violence and conflict in the form of insurgency for many decades. Although this insurgency has partly resulted from the socio-economic deprivation...

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...

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...

Those enchanted by pseudo-reality must have been at the edge of their seats as they watched ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, a Hollywood account of how US SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden on May 1, 2011. But a recently leaked…

Pakistan’s role in South and Southeast Asia is undoubtedly a major factor affecting the situation there. When outside observers assess that role, they primarily look at the interaction between this Muslim nuclear country and both the United States and China.…