Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Pakistan aimed to convey a message to the West about its counterterrorism efforts and show China that it has control over the CPEC routes. However, both messages fell flat.
Pakistan saw 1,000+ terror attacks last year. The Institute for Economics and Peace’s report highlights concerns over terrorism in Africa, with Burkina Faso topping the list.
Pakistan's representative to the UN in New York, Munir Akram, also urged interim Afghan government to sever ties with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The dossier targeting india and PM Modi might win Pakistan's establishment applause from nationalists, but it won't extricate the country from the minefields it has laid for itself.
TTP killers understand only the language of force. The lesson seems lost and the gains achieved at great cost by soldiers and officers are being undone.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, whose roots go back to the Red Mosque in Islamabad and TTP founder Baitullah Mehsud, has become one of the biggest security challenge.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
Pak military has only 1 purpose…hold on to power even if it comes at cost of regional peace.
The whole enmity with India is just to achieve that end. They know they can’t win wars yet they won’t allow peace