Security and strategic issues

Pakistan: Chinese threat to sovereignty

Pakistan: Chinese threat to sovereignty..

Diamer-Bhasha: Dam or doom!

Diamer-Bhasha: Dam or doom!..

The Baluch retribution against Pakistan army offensives

The Baluch retribution against Pakistan army offensives..

And now Surgical strike 2.0

ollowing the successful attacks on Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed's training camps this morning, official statement from the Government of India has also come in which India confirmed the action, saying it had targeted the biggest training camp of Jais..

New ISI chief amid call of peace by Imran Khan!

Lieutenant General Asim Munir assumed the charge as the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) 23rd director general on October 26, by replacing outgoing Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar, who retired one day before,  after reaching the age of superannuation. Gen A..

Pakistan-Turkey defence deal: new threat to regional peace and security?

After getting recognition as an independent Islamic nation, Pakistan always desired that it would be recognized as a world power and made its independent identity by exiting from the shadow of India.And this ambition forced him to stand on the doors o..

Pakistan now relies on China for arms, not US: Financial Times

The deep ties between Pakistan and the United States that blossomed from the end of the 70s are now at sloping. In the backdrop of the Mujahedeen war, the US provided military as well as civilian assistance, enormously and irrationally to Pakistan, but ..

“Babur” tested again: Pakistan's endeavour to gain strategic mileage!

Pakistan on April 14 conducted a successful test of new version of the Babur cruise missile. According to Pakistani Army’s ISPR, Babur Weapon System-1 (B) incorporates advanced aerodynamics and avionics that can strike targets both at land and sea..

Seven Pakistani companies listed as significant risk to the US national security

Pakistan's nuclear program has become a cause of worry for the global community in many ways. The Pakistani army, which has the actual possession of these weapons, is in close contact with the Religious Fundamentalist and the terrorists; therefore the d..

American Congress has authorised up to $700 million in Coalition Support Fund to Pakistan

The American Congress has authorised up to $700 million in Coalition Support Fund (CSF) to reimburse Pakistan for activities carried out in support of US operations in Afghanistan. The authorisation is included in the reconciled text of the House and Se..

Pakistan Navy has placed an order for two 75m Swift Corvettes: New dimensions

Pakistan Navy has placed an order for two 75m Swift Corvettes from a US-based shipbuilding company, Swiftships, said the company’s Chief Executive Officer Shehraze Shah. In an interview with a defence and security magazine Mönch, Mr Shah said..

Tillerson forced Pakistan to Step up Anti-Terrorism Efforts?

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that he did not visit Islamabad earlier this week to lecture or coerce Pakistanis but he did tell them that Washington is determined to eradicate terrorism from the region with their support or “in a di..

Multinational counter-terrorism air exercise ‘Aces Meet-2017’ concluded

The first multinational counter-terrorism air exercise was cocluded at a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) operational airbase on October 27, with Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman as the chief guest. The two-week exercise codenamed &..

Pakistan cautioned the United States against sale of armed drones to India

Pakistan on October 27, cautioned the United States that sale of armed drones to India would lower the threshold for conflict and undermine strategic stability in the region. Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria said at a me..

US pledged military assistance to Pakistan with stringent conditions

  The United States has provided Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid since 2002. But the annual funding has declined in recent years as Washington became increasingly disenchanted with Pakistan’s quiet support for the Haqqani netwo..

Bob Corker threatens to block arms to Gulf

  A top Republican lawmaker Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on 26th June threatened to block US arms sales to members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council including Saudi Arabia until their escalating ri..

US bill seeks to revoke Pakistan’s major ally status

 Two US lawmakers, Republican Congressman Ted Poe and Democrat Congressman Rick Nolan, have introduced a bipartisan bill in Congress, on 23rd June seeking to revoke Pakistan’s status as a major non-Nato ally (MNNA).    &..

Pakistan Armed forces: Rising business barons

The Senate of Pakistan was provided on July 15th 2016, details of commercial entities being run by various wings of the armed forces in the country. Defence Minister Khwaja Asif informed the house that there were nearly 50 “projects, unit..

House Appropriations Committee started hearing on amending State and Foreign Operations Appropriations draft bill

A key Congressional panel, House Appropriations Committee  started hearing a proposal on amending  2018 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations draft bill  on 13th July  to make US civil and military aid to Pakistan conditional t..

US Senate Armed Services Committee delegation in Pakistan

  A high-level US Senate delegation comprised by members of the influential Senate Armed Services Committee, including top Republican John McCain, met Pakistan’s top foreign affairs official and powerful military chief in Islamabad t..

Is China develop a military base in Pakistan?

A new Pentagon report has said that China is likely to establish additional military bases in Pakistan and other countries with which it has a longstanding friendly ties and similar strategic interests. In its annual report to the Congress on Chi..

Growing arms export of Pakistan

The Chairman of the Pakistani Senate’s Standing Committee on Defence Production, Khawaja Sohail Mansoor, reported that defence exports from Pakistan have grown to more than $98 million U.S. in fiscal year (FY) 2016-2017, a 55% increase from exports ..

Shifting of the GHQ from Rawalpindi to Islamabad: Financial aspects

The issue of the shifting of the GHQ from Rawalpindi to Islamabad came to light after nine years when an official of the Capital Development Authority earlier this month informed a sub-committee of the parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that the..

US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan quits

Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, acting special representative Laurel Miller has stepped down, just as the United States is preparing to send thousands more troops to the region. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert ..

Saudi envoy denies Pakistani mediation in Gulf row

Acting Saudi ambassador Marwan bin Radwan Mirdad has denied that Pakistan’s mediation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar over their diplomatic row.Last week Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif travelled to Jeddah on a daylong..

World not to supply weapons to Pakistan: Hamdullah Mohib

Afghanistan has once again repeated  Pakistan’s support for attacks inside the war-torn country. In a dialogue,organized by Washington-based think-tank Indus, Afghanistan’s ambassador to US Hamdullah Mohib, urging the world not t..

Pakistan COAS Bajwa awarded Turkish Legion of Merit

Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa was awarded the Turkish Legion of Merit for promotion of defence ties between Islamabad and Ankara during an official visit to Turkey. The COAS also visited Turkish Land Force Headquarters..

Hardening the line: cutting CSF

The Trump administration plans to slash $100 million and give $800 million as reimbursement to Pakistan in the next fiscal for its military support in fighting terror, a defence department official said. The administration has proposed the $100 million cu..

Pakistan-Romania defence ties!!!!!!

Pakistan and Romania have agreed to explore the potential of cooperation in defense production. The understanding came at a meeting between Minister for Defense Production Rana Tanveer Hussain and Romanian Ambassador Nicolae Gola on 7th June 2017 i..

Pakistan will acquire three new Saab Erieye AEW&C

The Pakistan Air Force confirmed that the air arm is set to receive three new Saab 2000 Erieye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft. The first will be delivered in December and the remaining pair will arrive next year. They w..

Pakistan Nuclear Society (PNS)

Pakistan Nuclear Society (PNS), is an academic not-for-profit educational and scientific learned society devoted for the promotion of peaceful use of nuclear energy, and lobbying for the commercial nuclear power development in the country. The PNS has app..

Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority PNRA)

The Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority PNRA), is an administrative and an executive independent government authority of Pakistan Government initially mandate and tasked to overlook and ensure the safe operation of nuclear industry, its related atomic f..

Khan Research Laboratories

The Khan Research Laboratories, previously known at various times as Project-706, Engineering Research Laboratories, and Kahuta Research Laboratories, is a Pakistan Government's multi-program national research institute, managed and operated under the scr..

Centre for High Energy Physics

The Centre for High Energy Physics at the Punjab University, commonly referred to as CHEP, is a national research institute for High-energy physics (or Particle physics), a branch of fundamental Physics. It is concerned with unraveling the ultimate consti..

Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO)

The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), is an executive and bureaucratic space agency of the Government of Pakistan, responsible for the nation's public and civil space programme and for aeronautics and aerospace research. Its missio..

Pakistan Nuclear Power Fuel Complex

The Pakistan Nuclear Power Fuel Complex (PNPFC), also known as Chemical Reprocessing Plant (CrP), is a nuclear energy and reprocessing industrial complex for the PWR-type reactors. The NPFC-I is a dual purpose nuclear power plant, with a net capacity of 1..

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)

The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) is an independent governmental authority and a scientific research institution, concerned with research and development of nuclear power, promotion of nuclear science, energy conservation and the peaceful usage..

National Command Authority, (NCA)

The National Command Authority, (NCA), is the apex civilian led command to oversee the employment, policy formulation, exercises, deployment, research and development, and operational command and control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenals. The National Comman..

Khushab Nuclear Complex

Khushab Nuclear Complex is a plutonium production nuclear reactor and heavy water complex situated 30 km south of the town of Jauharabad in Khushab District, Punjab, Pakistan. The heavy water and natural uranium reactors at Khushab are a central ..

Karachi Nuclear Power Complex or KNPC

Karachi Nuclear Power Complex or KNPC is located in Paradise Point, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It consists of Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) and CIAL KARACHI. A new governmental power project "KANUPP-2" which is under construction is also included in..

Chashma Nuclear Power Complex

 The Chashma Nuclear Power Complex near Chashma city,MIANWALI District, Punjab, Pakistan, is a commercial nuclear power generation complex, consisting of Chashma Nuclear Power Plant-I (CHASNUPP-I) and Chashma Nuclear Power Plant-II (CHASNUPP-II), w..

Air Weapons Complex (AWC)

Air Weapons Complex (AWC) is a development and production centre for airborne weapons systems in Pakistan, more recently becoming involved in various commercial and other non-military projects also. The facility began operations in 1992 and has since grow..

Pakistan signs defence agreement with South Africa

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Affairs, South Africa Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on “Defence and Defence Industrial Cooperation” on 27th March 2017. ..

Pakistan Formally Inducts Ly-80 (Hq-16) Air Defence System

Pakistan has inducted a Chinese-made Low-to-Medium altitude Air Defence System (LOMADS) LY 80 on March 12.  LOMADS LY-80 is capable of intercepting and destroying aerial targets flying at low and medium altitude. Pakistan's move come close on the..

Missiles of Pakistan

 Pakistan is currently prioritizing the development and deployment of short-range missile systems armed with low-yield nuclear warheads. This risky plan, which is part of an effort to deter conventional attacks from India, could lower the threshold..