What has pushed the US into talks with Taliban partly can be because of Iran's important presence in the region and partly because of the US fear of the rise of Al-Qaida in Afghanistan. As far as the latter issue is concerned, the US intelligence needs the support of Pakistan's ISI. The ISI is constantly in contact with the Pak-Taliban.
The social problems, such as the idea of inequality between man and woman in civil services or denying and discouraging the educated Baloch women a right to participate in politics, have not been identified clearly as real social problems... Balochistan, officially known as the province of Sistan & Balochistan, is one of the thirty...
Many Baloch have also denied the Indian assistance. In a question whether India supports the Baloch struggle in Pakistan, Dr Wahid Baloch (the President of the Baloch Society of North America) says that we have not seen any help coming from India or any other country so far, but we ask all the nations including India to help us...
Finally, the third major strategic implication to India is the growing influence of China in Myanmar. Should Myanmar get irreversibly locked in China’s tight economic and strategic embrace, would pose serious security dangers to India. By establishing a substantial presence in the west of the Ayeyarwaddy (Irrawady) River...
Reza Shah had no problems with his foreign policy. The British, the most powerful force in the region, had brought him to power and supported his regime, and national security did not pose problem for Reza Shah’s government from the point of view of foreign threats. Reza Khan Pahlavi was the...
For countries like Pakistan, as its history indicates, rulers like Musharraf are far better than the so-called democrats. Democracy may work in Pakistan only when people themselves prove they deserve it. To bring about a workable form of democracy the pre-condition is that every citizen must develop in itself the culture of democracy.
The term sovereignty is derived from the Latin word “superanus” which means “paramount” or “supreme.” It came into actual usage not before the 15th century. French jurists, particularly Beaumanoir and Loyseau first used the terms: sovereign and sovereignty in that century. English, Italian, and German writers began to use it later.
