Afghanistan’s government has termed the news about Mullah Omar’s death as “credible”. Afghanistan’s president Ashraf Ghani’s office issued a press release that confirms earlier claims of BBC that Mullah Omar died two years ago in Pakistan. The short press release stated, “the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, based […]
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China: Broken Escalator Swallows a Mother of Two Year Old Son
A broken escalator in China mall Jingzhou killed Xiang Liujuan, 30, who was a mother of a two year old son. The escalator was broken before the mother stepped on it along with her two-year-old son. Before she was dragged into the machine the mother was able to throw her […]
Afghanistan: 20 People Shot Dead in a Gunfight at a Wedding Party
In Afghanistan, 20 people were killed in a gunfight at a wedding party in Baghlan province. Most of the dead are said to be the guests at the wedding party, aged between 14 and 60. Some 400 people were gathered for the wedding ceremony of a local Mullah’s son. Among […]
Plane crashes in Tokyo Killing Three Including Pilot
A small plane crashed in Tokyo resulting in killing of three people including the Pilot, a passenger, and a woman on the ground while three people were pulled alive from the wreckage. The plane crashed right after it departed from a nearby airfield in Tokyo’s Western suburb of Chofu. Tokyo […]
Nuclear Weapons: The Anchor Sheet of Peace and Stability
The horrific detonation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused the evolution of a new era of politics in the world. It was the first time in the history of warfare that the scale of human causalities with a single strike of any kind of weapon became unthinkable. As we know that […]
Confines of Confrontational Statements and Conventional Deterrence
The two subcontinent nuclear powers, Pakistan and India, very recently involved in a war of words which has reopened the debate on South Asian’s nuclear and strategic stability. Predominantly, three official statements from India in scorching ‘June’ have further inflamed the traditional tensions between the two rival nuclear neighbors. Pragmatically, […]
Indo-US Strategic Ties
The US tilt in South Asia is not a sudden development, in fact, after the demise of the Soviet Union there has been a gradual convergence of interests between New Delhi and Washington. Before Cold War any alliance between US and India remained out of the question due to Nehru’s […]
3D (Distress, Discord, Discriminatory) NPT Persist
The closing meeting of month-long ninth NPT Review Conference (RevCon) opened a novel debate about the future of the non-proliferation regime. The four weeks long negotiations ended in dismay as the states party to the treaty on Nuclear Non-Proliferation could not reach on a consensus document to improve progress on […]
The Religious Propaganda of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a sunny Islamic extremist jihadist organization, whose aim is to establish the caliphate based single Islamic state under the Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi, its current leader. They chose an innovative violent form of jihad for the re-establishment of caliphate system and to topple […]
Chabahar or Gwadar, Which one is Suitable for Afghanistan?
The Sea Politics is getting complex with an increase in world’s commercial activities. Now the world is not only focusing on the militarily important places but it is also in the search of places that will be productive from the business point of view in future. It is important to note that […]