Tag: ISI
Spy vs Spy
Spearhead Analysis – 29.03.2016
Third party evaluations rate Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) as one of the world’s top intelligence agencies. So it should not have...
The Fantastic Four
Spearhead Analysis – 11.02.2016
The Quadrilateral Consultative Group (QCG) that is trying to start the dialogue between Afghanistan and the Taliban to bring peace and...
Brothers No More ?
Spearhead Analysis – 29.09.2015
The former President of Afghanistan Mr Hamid Karzai once called Pakistanis his brothers and added that Pakistan and Afghanistan were conjoined...
Further down the rabbit hole
Spearhead Analysis – 31.07.2015
By Abdulla Wasti
Research Analyst, Spearhead Research
On July 30th 2015, the Afghan Taliban officially confirmed Mullah Omar’s death and a couple of hours...
Pak-Afghan conundrum: A glimmer of hope
Spearhead Analysis – 13.07.2015
By Abdulla Wasti
Research Analyst, Spearhead Research
Pakistan Today Feature Analysis by Spearhead Research
In the past six months, we have witnessed Pak-Afghan relations shift...
Pakistan-Afghanistan Diplomacy – The Way Forward
By Hassan Raza Sheikh
Intern Research Analyst,
Spearhead Research
The Afghan Intelligence Service, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) has publicly blamed an official of the Inter-Services...
Breakfast in New York
Spearhead Analysis – 02.10.2013
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressed the UN General assembly in New York. Predictably he raised the issue of US Drone attacks...
With democracy maturing, coup not likely — General Jehangir Karamat (retd),...
TURNING POINT: DEFINING THE ARMY’S ROLE
Even with the advent of a democratically elected government with a clear mandate, the fear of military intervention at...
AFGHANISTAN: HOPE, FANTASY AND FAILURE!
By Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal
While the people of Pakistan prayed for early recovery of Malala, they were awe-struck by the frenzy created about...
MISSING PERSONS’ CONUNDRUM
By Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal
United Nations’ ‘Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances’, one of the “thematic procedures” of the United Nations Human...