Pakistan enters 2020 slouched under the burden of a weak democracy with a strong military, a tense neighbourhood and a geopolitical environment under pressure from US–China great power rivalry. With political instability and a plummeting economy weakening, the civilian government’s dependence on the military has grown. Pakistan also faces deteriorating relations with India and amid …
As Pakistan plunges deeper into serious economic crisis the Rawalpindi- based GHQ Shura has tightened the noose over Prime Minister Imran Khan with no overt protests of murmur. Imran has been beholden to the men in Khaki for propelling him into power; now he is surrendering even his token power to the generals for his …
Asif-speak at the Asia Society that the Haqqanis and Hafeez Saeeds are indeed Pakistan’s liability signals that the GHQ Shura is willing to do business with Washington on Trump’s terms just as Gen Pervez Musharraf did after the US had launched a global war on terrorism in the wake of 9/11 attacks on New …
American publication, Newsweek, has created a sensation with its scoop that Egyptian-born Ayman-al-Zawahiri, who had succeeded Osama bin Laden as Al Qaeda chief, is hiding in Karachi with the ISI providing the protective cover. Pakistan had sheltered Osama bin Laden himself at a safe house in Abbottabad, (near the Kakul Military Academy) till he was …