The Pakistani Spectator

A Candid Blog


Posts Tagged ‘Russia’

Euroasian Union and Pakistan

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Nov 8th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

While we are at it, why not just become little bit more innovative and flexible and forge new ties with other regional powers, and Russia comes first there. Yes we fought a war in Afghanistan, but that was it, and we have got to move forward, and establish a trust relationship there too.
Our some people [...]



America is Here to Stay

By Tahir Hameed • Jun 9th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Dum Dums sitting in the seats of power have to realize that USA is here to stay. Its eyes are upon the resources and minerals in Afghanistan and perhaps in Baluchistan as well. The incident in Abbotabad was created to show that the ISI is incapable. And the Americans net aim is to get [...]



Russia Pakistan Friendship on Warm Waters

By Umer Toor • May 14th, 2011 • Category: Worth A Second Look

Even the Americans have stopped boasting about their immaculate operation in Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden, but the Pakistani media is still hard at work to malign the name of the government and the agencies and the armed forces. Just to get some cheap fame and spread the sensationalism, the media and some rejected [...]



Washington summit on nuclear security

By Afshain Afzal • Apr 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Attacks on Iranian nuclear and missile site seem impossible because at this juncture if the west makes a mistake to attack Iran the whole Muslim world would be united. In case of attack on Iran, the spade work carried out by anti-Islam forces since 17 century to divide the Muslims on sectarian lines would vanish [...]



Nuclear Security Summit

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Apr 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

These days nuclear matters are on the centre stage of international affairs. America’s ‘Nuclear Posture Review’ (NPR) and signing of ‘Nuclear Arms Treaty’ between USA and Russia had set the wheel in motion for the far more trickier event of ‘Nuclear Security Summit’ (NSS), where around forty seven states are deliberating the measures to strengthen [...]



Obama’s Nuclear Games

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Apr 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

An interesting policy development has taken place in the US under the Obama administration. As one recalls, Obama made much of nuclear disarmament and on his commitment for this goal. Well, it appears being in office alters many perspectives and President Obama’s worldview on many issues has altered qualitatively from the positions he espoused as [...]



Strong Pakistan is in Mutual Interest of China and USA

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Features


Car Bomb Blasts in Pakistan: Is Russia Involved Once Again?

By Maria Sultan • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I still remember the dark days of General Ziaul Haq, when first time the car bomb blasts in busy markets of the Pakistan became a routine. At that the Afghan intelligence agency Khad was carrying out those attacks with the backing of the USSR.
In Pakistan, once again the car bomb blasts have become a norm. [...]



Global Currency Game

By Guest Blogger • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Features

Currency today is not just a medium of exchange or store of value but it affects the fate of nations, oversees. Suppose you own few shares of a firm. Indeed you have ownership in that company, on papers, which will be diluted when the company decides to increase the number of shares. Same goes with [...]



60 years of Pak-Russia relations

By Dil Nawaz • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Bradistan Calling
When Pakistan came into existence in 1947, Russia was known as the Godless Empire of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin. This inherent difference in ideologies resulted in tensions from the very start, but the refusal of the first prime minister of Pakistan to accept the cordial invitation of the [...]