Articles By Meenakshi Sood
Iran-Pakistan Relations- Yet Another False Start?
By: Meenakshi Sood | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Apr , 2017
The neighbour on Pakistan’s western border that takes up much of its time and energy is Afghanistan, never Iran. Iran and Pakistan share a 900-kilometre border that causes occasional...
Gen Bajwa’s Three Months at the Top Job
By: Meenakshi Sood | Date: 05 Mar , 2017
“Defense and security of Pakistan against external and internal threat will remain my ultimate objective as military chief” – Gen Bajwa The transfer of power from one chief of army to...
Military Courts in Pakistan: Army Should be the Enabler, not the Provider of...
By: Meenakshi Sood | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Jan , 2017
There comes a moment in every nation’s life when the banality of evil and routinised violence becomes unbearable, when it is shaken to the core by the destruction perpetrated by demons it has...
Chiefs of Nawaz Sharif
By: Meenakshi Sood | Date: 25 Dec , 2016
In his autobiography Gen Pervez Musharraf comments on the civil-military (dis)balance in Pakistan thus, “I know that in western democracies, military personnel on active duty, especially the...
Saudi-Iran conflict: India needs to safeguard its interests
By: Meenakshi Sood | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 03 Feb , 2016
The execution of Shia religious scholar Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia set in motion a series of unfortunate events that have the potential to deepen instability in the volatile Middle East, and...