The subject of geopolitics can be found extensively in ancient strategy works like as Aristotle and Montesquieu – where western philosophers dispute the political implications of geography – such as topography, climate, and access to the state’s open waterways (sea). Johan Rudolf Kjellén, a Swedish political scientist, invented the terms “Geopolitik,” “Oecopolitik,” and “Demopolitik” in the twentieth century. He defines […]

The following video is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). Against the backdrop of negotiations between the Pakistani Taliban Movement (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, TTP) and the Pakistani government, Umarmedia.io published on June 30, 2022 an interview with TTP emir Noor Wali Mehsud. Mehsud said that the Pakistani government was forced to the negotiations table due […]

At least 10 security personnel were injured, three of them seriously, when a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of security forces in North Waziristan tribal district in Pakistan on Monday. Dawn News reported that the convoy was going from Mirali to Miramshah, the district headquarters, when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up near one of the vehicles. […]

Barter is the oldest form of commerce between the two parties without using money in the transaction. This system has been practiced for centuries and long before money was introduced. After the fall of Kabul and US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is worsening. Pakistan in not only providing humanitarian and economic assistance to Afghanistan […]

India and Afghanistan neither shares border nor have a direct rail and road links between the two countries but due to Afghanistan’s fluctuating relations with Pakistan, India has long been an active player in Afghanistan. In the previous Taliban rule (1997-2001) the relation between the two countries were uneasy and India’s ties with the Northern Alliance were not only close […]

Pakistan army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s post-Article 370 abrogation rant that “Pakistan Army firmly stands by the Kashmiris in their just struggle to the very end,” and that “We are prepared and shall go to any extent to fulfil our obligations in this regard” was undoubtedly the public formalisation of Rawalpindi’s proxy war in Kashmir. While armies of democratic […]

Pakistan is currently facing an unprecedented wave of inflation, electricity shortfall, and an obscure political environment. At such times great nations and great leaders work with unity and urge for national cohesion. When the great depression struck America in 1929-39, President Roosevelt Introduced the ‘New Deal’ that helped the nation work in close cohesion and the opposition at that time […]

1540 Support Unit of Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) hosted a side event entitled “Regional Approaches to Supporting UNSCR 1540 (2004)” on 1st June, 2022. UNSCR 1540 came in 2004 as a response to the threats of WMDs, non-proliferation and terrorism that emerged in 21st century. Pakistan has always supported the globally agreed objectives of promoting nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. […]

Prime minister of Pakistan-administered Kashmir has approved 100 million rupees ($484,000) for last week’s earthquake victims in Afghanistan, it was reported Thursday. Kashmir’s cabinet and top bureaucracy also donated one month’s salary for the relief of the people of Afghanistan, Pakistani newspaper The News reported. Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, the prime minister of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said that the people of Pakistan […]

Pakistan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs has called for an easing of Western sanctions against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), saying the basic functioning of the Afghan economy must not be endangered. The IEA takeover last year prompted foreign governments, led by the United States, to cut development and security aid, and the strict enforcement of sanctions has […]