The author is accomplished researcher with wide ranging contributions in foreign magazines and journals. His writings for Criterion Quarterly are: The Price of ‘Sea Blindness’ The Information Age and Pakistan Pak–Saudi Relations: the Rough Road Ahead Time for Pakistan to Shift Strategic Gaze Seaward
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Muhammad Azam Khan* *The author is accomplished researcher with wide ranging contributions in foreign magazines and journals. Abstract (Recent developments in Saudi-US-India relations have put Pakistan’s long held and steely ties with Riyadh in a flux. Though these could be marginally reset by the new Biden administration, the trilateral relationship has emboldened Modi and his
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By Muhammad Azam Khan[1] Abstract All sorts of information criss-cross the space today. No country or society can stay economically viable, let alone competitive if the flow of information therein remains hostage to state disruptions and restrictions as in Pakistan today. Security threats, the financial and ideological allure of Islamist radicalism and bad governance must
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By Muhammad Azam Khan Pakistan’s military history is littered with sacrifices by the nation’s valiant young officers – soldiers, sailors and airmen alike. But these sacrifices could do little to avert the final outcome of conflicts since at the strategic tier there was a universal lack of understanding on the prosecution of war duly exacerbated
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comment A few hours after a suicide bomber killed more than seventy and wounded twice as many worshippers during Friday prayers at a mosque in Jumrud on 27 March, President Barack Obama unveiled his Afghanistan and anti-terrorism strategy during which he warned: “Make no mistake: Al Qaeda and its extremist allies are a cancer that
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The 18th century poet, Thomas Gray, is reputed to have said that ignorance is a bliss. A few years back, a young researcher from an Islamabad based think tank contributed an opinion column for a national daily on nuclear deterrence, technically, the second strike capability. The discourse mentioned that sea based deterrence is ‘not a proven
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