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Jan 24, 2025 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
Pakistan, a nuclear armed country with one of the seven largest armies of the world, is currently embroiled in multiple battles and political acrimony with neighbours; a ferocious war against TTP; tough posturing against Pashtoon Tahaffuz Movement (PTM); and an equally harsh stance vis-à-vis PTI across the country. In Balochistan, it faces the cold-blooded insurgency by the BLF and BLA inter alia. Its relationship with Afghanistan is log-jammed at the moment.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
As the White House prepares to welcome Donald Trump for the second time, expectations for an end to duplicitous policies and fears of big disruption in the US relations with countries across the globe are growing.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
Two big events, triggered by two different militant groups within a space of 24 hours, convey an extremely disturbing and scary security situation. On January 8, a band of at least 80 militants stormed the Zehri bazaar (Khuzdar) without facing any resistance from the Levies force stationed in the area. The militants ransacked government buildings, robbed a private bank and took local Levies personnel hostage.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
The judiciary played a facilitating role in establishing the authoritarian rule. Sections of the media contributed to the consolidation of such governance. At first sight these two sentences read like a glimpse from Pakistan's current political situation.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
Pakistan is currently embroiled in multiple wars with internal dimensions: a vicious, ethnically-coloured proxy war mounted by predominantly Pashtun TTP and Baloch separatist groups, largely in Balochistan and K-P; a sectarian-tribal war, as evidenced in the bloody incidents of Kurram where dozens lost their lives in continual clashes; and a witch-hunt of religious minorities, with laws weaponised as a tool of persecution.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
In an ironic twist of fate, Bangladesh's former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun appeared in court on (November 20) to respond to a long list of charges, including massacres, genocide and crimes against humanity until August 5, when former Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee to India. Chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam, from Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal, said Al-Mamun and eight others men had committed crimes "that even devils dare not do".
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
Donald Trump's victory for the White House has stirred considerable debate around the globe, primarily on how the world would deal with a non-conventional President considered as unpredictable and vindictive. The same is true for Pakistan. A couple of conferences at Islamabad these days also reverberated with significant focus on the future relations of the United States with the rest of the world i.e. how will the world navigate the challenges ahead?
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
For the entire duration of the American presidential election campaign, almost all apologists for deep state interventions whispered aloud that the establishment and the military-industrial complex, a veritable arm of the deep state, are intrinsically opposed to the anti-war Donald Trump. Both flourished off the post 9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa, but Trump, as the 45th American President, loathed the US involvement in foreign wars.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
"The Chinese are very clear; no matter how lucrative an investment is anywhere, if the security issue is there, they do not send Chinese personnel. Your country is the only exception."These remarks by Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar at a recent seminar in Islamabad triggered an unprecedented near-diplomatic spat between the two countries. Never before did diplomats of the two countries go public with such an expression of "displeasure and discomfort" over what the other side stated.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
tribune.com.pk | Imtiaz Gul
The 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (15-16 October 2024) passed peacefully. It offered Pakistan the opportunity to host a high-profile multilateral meeting. One would assume that active Chinese and Russian diplomacy made the event possible.
