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 […]

Heartiest condolences to the families who lost their loved ones in the brutal bomb blast at Ferozepur Road Lahore.  I always try to restrain myself in putting the blame on the government and its incompetence because the terrorism is the most difficult thing to control and also, during last 4-5 years the terrorism significantly reduced […]

During the early 20th century, there were several political assassinations which included US President William McKinley, the Russian czar, Italian King and two Spanish PMs but none of these incidents shook the world the way it shook after the assassination of heir of Austro-Hungarian Empire.  On 28th of June, 1914, in Sarajevo, the heir presumptive to […]