VOL 7 NO 1

By Sultan M. Hali* Abstract (Operation Gibraltar was the code name given to the clandestine raids carried out in Indian-Held Kashmir (IHK) in July/August 1965, which became the immediate cause of the Pakistan-India War in September 1965. The operation itself may have been bold and audacious in its planning but immature and unprofessional in execution, […]

By Abdul Sattar* So colossal have been the human and material ravages our country has suffered during the last decade that no sensitive citizen can but wish Pakistan had followed a different course, one that might have saved our country and people from the nightmare in which we are still trapped. To start this revisit

By Air Commodore (Retd) Khalid Iqbal, TI (M)* Abstract Pakistan’s geopolitical fixations and strategic environment are quite interesting. These pose serious quandaries in the realm of national security. Fondness of extra-regional powers to invade our neighborhood, persistence animosity radiating from India, barring sporadic spikes of thaw, and an unstable relationship with America keep Pakistan busy

By Dr. Syed Rifaat Hussain* Abstract The resumption of the India-Pakistan peace dialogue after a hiatus of nearly two years resulting from the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, has revived interest in different formulas, proposals and options that have been made from time to time to resolve the Kashmir dispute, the root-cause of “unending conflict” between

By A. G. NOORANI* Abstract (This essay is concerned with the intellectual ferment in the Muslim world which is of more enduring significance than what attracts greater attention; the phenomenon called “political Islam”. – Author) “Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves” – Quran (13:11). Muslims’ thinking