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Nearly 20 months taking office, Biden administration finally released its National Security Strategy (NSS) on October 12, 2022.  The White House published the unclassified part of NSS, which defines broad strategic priorities and guidelines for US government departments and agencies dealing with both domestic...

Peace negotiations between the Pakistan and TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan), an outlawed terrorist organization that for years has been spearheading terrorism in Pakistan are taking place in Kabul. The process began in October 2021 and is being mediated by the Afghan Taliban. The dialogue that...

U.S. China Policy Is Heading Towards Disaster By Mushahid Hussain* Final Draft Crack Less than a year after the longest, disastrous war in U.S. history ended on a messy military exit from Afghanistan, the Biden administration is apparently embarked on the fast track of fashioning a major...

In his perceptive and insightful observations, Professor Happymon Jacob of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, gives a detailed and poignant account of civilians’ lives and the frontline soldiers guarding one of the tensest boundaries in the world, the Line of Control (LoC)....

The federal government released the public version of the newly formulated National Security Policy (NSP) on 14 January  2022. The first documented NSP of Pakistan has garnered praise as well as widespread criticism from various sections of society. The actualization of a symbiotic relationship...

White supremacy is not new. It has existed in the United States (US) since the beginning of its independence. However, it has evolved over time, or as per Daniel Byman, professor of terrorism and middle-east at Georgetown University USA, white supremacy movements have devolved....

China-Pakistan relations have historically been perceived as an all-weather friendship and iron brotherhood. Partnership between both states is based on mutual interests and practical cooperation under guidance of both leaderships. Both sides continuously make efforts for advancing relations in all spheres, including political, economic,...

The federal government of Pakistan’s unilateral announcement to engage the outlawed terrorist organization, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has caught the opposition, civil society, and other stakeholders off guard. The government’s undemocratic move has long-lasting political and security implications for the country. The government’s decision to...

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s announcement that his government was engaged in reconciliation talks with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has stunned many in the country where the memories of the violence and crimes committed by the terrorist group remain fresh. Read More.....

The astonishing return of the Afghan Taliban to power in Kabul after twenty long years of war, which involved foreign forces led by the US and its Western allies, and later on Afghan National Army,  heralds a new chapter in the geopolitics of the...