What is Pakistan’s clout and relevance today other than the overused but inefficiently cashiered ‘strategic’ location?

Military, at its end, needs to have a dialogue with its veterans; open, candid even if blisteringly brutal

Military in Pakistan is not kosher and the aim of this write-up is not to defend mistakes of the Miltablishment

Geostrategically, no insurgency can survive without external havens and support

PTI has proved having no political acumen, no competence, no experience to handle complex issues at ‘national’ level

Despite the surprising relative incompetence of Russian General Staff, a decisive Ukrainian victory is not realistic

The Russian invasion has resulted in the greatest humanitarian and refugee crises in Europe since World War-I

Russian offensive, contested fiercely by reinvigorated Ukrainian Army, is making slow but sure-footed progress

The US now claims providing Ukraine with targeting data/other relevant intelligence for the purpose

The war has caused almost 5.2 million Ukrainians to flee and internally displaced over 7.7 million people