Recently, various media networks reported that soon after Trump’s inauguration, his administration took down pages related to Civil Rights, LGBT, Abortion, Climate Change and Spanish language content from the White House website. The news sent shockwaves among many who were already wary of President Trump’s various controversial pledges during his campaign. […]
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The Trump Administration’s Policy vis-à-vis South Asia
Donald Trump’s Doctrine after becoming the 45th President of the United States regarding South Asia is not really vague to be speculated. The Trump Administration’s economic and national security teams will have to deal the region with both long-term geo-strategic policies and near-term tactical decisions at a time when the […]
AfPak: Integrated – Transit Trade Management System
Regional integration and intra-regional trade have played an important role in the economic prosperity of many countries, the Association of Southern Asian Nations (ASEAN) being one such example. The first attempt to regulate and codify all the scattered provisions – under the auspices of trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan in […]
CPEC: Uniting Regions
“Gwadar Port Operational for Trade Activities” a headline which marked the realization of the long sought dream of President Xi Jinping. It indeed proved that Sino-Pakistan relationship is without a doubt, higher than the mountains and deeper than oceans. CPEC is a channel for the Maritime Silk Route that connects around […]
Pakistan, India and Politics of Nuclear Suppliers Group
The last Vienna Plenary meeting of NSG ended without reaching any consensus on the issue of NSG candidature for non-NPT states. India was lately giving the impression that it has won the support of majority of the states including Mexico, Switzerland, Brazil, Russia and New Zealand. But the fact is […]
Nuclear Disarmament Case and Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands turned into a member of the United Nations in September 1991. The Marshall Islands upholds embassies in the United States, Fiji, the Philippines, Japan, and the Republic of China (Taiwan). They also maintain consulate in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Marshall Island pursued a lawsuit against the main player […]
Pak-Russia Joint Military Exercises: Possibility for an Emerging New Alliance?
Since the landscape of International politics is always changing, where the alliances and partnerships are also shifting with much frequency, a new emerging cooperation between Pakistan and Russia gains a huge attention as well as importance. Not only is this a significant development in itself where these two estranged states, […]
Joint-Sea 2016: Sino – Russia axis towards a global ascendancy
In the contemporary international arena, regional alliance is significant; and for great powers like China and Russia to have regional popularity and cordial relations with all the regional countries is in their fundamental interests. Last week, China and Russia commenced an eight-day joint naval exercise in the South China Sea […]
The Consequences of BrahMos Deployment in Arunachal Pradesh
The deployment of BrahMos missile is bound to increase the competitiveness and rivalry between China–India relations and will have a negative impact on the stability of the region. The BrahMos is a new game piece in India’s tense relationship with China. China claims parts of Arunachal Pradesh as its own and both […]
Discriminatory Approaches and Weaknesses in NPT
The Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ideally aims at keeping a check on the spread as well as acquisition of nuclear weapons. However this pronounced intention seemingly is to keep an eye on the non-nuclear weapon states only. Either for the possible chances of them developing nuclear weapons or acquiring the […]