The suffering of the people of Gilgit started in 1947, when a war enabled Pakistan to snatch this strategic Himalayan territory from India. The loss of Gilgit shifted the regional strategic balance, with India losing border with Afghanistan, and China unexpectedly acquiring uninterrupted access to the Indian Ocean through Pakistan. Gilgit is the first victim of the nefarious China Pakistan-Economic Corridor (CPEC), as it empowers China to treat Gilgit as an extension of its Xinjiang province...

Turkey's geostrategic location allows it to be both Asian and European. As the nexus of global social transitions and a melting pot of...

This article examines the life of a country that never tires of calling itself the bastion of Islam or boasting of being the sole nuclear...