With the booming economy, the airline industry also shows significant growth. In 2017, the total market share of the airlines by different regions (shown in Fig-1) shows that the Asia-Pacific nations have the highest aviation industry market share. In 2017, the estimated net profit was around $7.4 billion by the regional airlines. It’s expected that the […]

The article can also be seen at pakteahouse Recently, after January 1, 2018, President Trump’s early morning tweet about Pakistan, the National Security Advisor, Dr. H. R. McMaster said while talking to the Voice of America’s Greta Van Susteren, “This is not a blame game, as some would say. This is really our effort to […]

During the early 1990’s when the operation Dessert Shield was in progress, and the allied forces did not began the campaign of heavy bombardment of Baghdad and other important places in Iraq and Kuwait, an interesting article, published in some unknown magazine in Pakistan (internet was not available then) where one unknown “defense analyst” from […]

  The current visit by the US Secretary of State, Mr. Rex Tillerson further strengthened the view that the US and Pakistan are going through the era of their worst ever relationship today.  However, it is time to ask if the US and Pakistan’s interests ever converged in the history, other than the times when […]

Introducing Cheen Mein Chalees Din After Dubai, Bangkok is arguably the most favorite travel destination of Karachiites, but how many Karachi-walas go to Bangkok overland?  Cemendtaur in his latest book, Cheen Mein Chalees Din, describes his overland journey from Karachi to Bangkok, via China and Laos.  Passing through undeveloped western China he travels all the […]

The US President Trump’s declaration of a so called new policy about Afghanistan is getting mixed reactions from all over the world.  He – without mincing words – declared that Taliban resurgent is only possible because of Pakistan, while conveniently forgetting Russia, Iran and China, who are helping Taliban to tackle the ISIS.  His tone […]

Dr Graham T. Allison, Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, recently authored the bestseller, “Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides’ Trap”.  In his book, Dr Allison introduced a phenomenon which he called, the Thucydides’ Trap.  He argued that this phenomenon is applied to an insecurity paranoia between a […]