Lt-Gen (r) Abdul Qayyum

Lt-Gen (r) Abdul Qayyum

  • Judicial reforms needed

    Judicial reforms needed

    In absence of constitution and elected political leadership, bureaucracy wielded significant power

  • Balochistan’s challenge

    Balochistan’s challenge

    Balochistan now has full representation in the Pakistan Armed Forces, proportional to its population

  • Pakistan: a victim of hybrid warfare

    The concept of hybrid warfare encompasses use of all means available to a state to subdue its adversary and achieve strategic goals without the...

  • Ties with Russia

    Russia is the largest country on the globe, with about 11 per cent of the world land mass, nearly double the size of the United States. Russia’s...

  • Erosion of democracy

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  • Law reforms

    “No progress can be achieved without giving Pakistan a well functioning and fully optimal legal system", said our founding father, Quaid-e-Azam...

  • Timely justice

    When the National Accountability Bureau started arresting almost all prominent members of only one major political party, the honourable courts,...

  • Population explosion

    The world's population in the year 1800 was only one billion which in 2020 had swelled up to 7.8 billion people. It is expected that by 2100 the...

  • Change of guards

    The Inter-service Intelligence Agency is the premier agency of Pakistan operationally responsible for gathering, processing and analysing strategic...

  • Dealing with terror

    Terrorism is undoubtedly a global phenomenon and a common threat to entire humanity worldwide.The latest definition of terrorism given by the UN...

  • Support for Palestine

    The Balfour Declaration signed at the end of the First World War on November 2, 1917 surprisingly allowed the establishment of a Jewish state in...

  • Pitfalls of unilateralism

    Unilateralism is an approach in international relations in which some states act with total disregard to the interests of other states, even in...

  • Wishful initiatives

    “The political dimensions of the dispute between India and Pakistan have long been centre-stage. This is not a conflict frozen in time. It is a...

  • A national challenge

    Our hearts bleed when we observe our ever-declining standards of intellectual honesty, moral values and respect for parliamentary ethics in our...

  • American transition

    After dropping nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities – Hiroshima and Nagasaki – at the fag end of the Second World War, the US emerged both...

  • On accountability

    It is part of our faith that, while everyone will be rewarded for his/her good deeds, we will also be held accountable for our selective punitive...

  • Window of opportunity

    The Commonwealth is an apolitical association of 54 member states which was founded under the Balfour Declaration in 1926 and formally constituted...

  • Discovering history

    Nobel Laureate Henry Kissinger made a humble start as a sergeant in the 84th American Infantry Division’s counter-intelligence set up during World...

  • On leadership

    History bears testimony to the fact that only those nations became prosperous in the past, and even transformed into great empires, which were...

  • Purpose and conviction

    An American author Robert Byrne had once said, “The purpose of life is a life of purpose”. Similarly, another wise person had also once said,...