Category: Opinions
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From TRG-300 to Air Launch: What Turkey’s New Supersonic Missile Means for Pakistan
By Major (R) Haroon Rasheed. Defense & Strategic Analyst specializing in South Asian military dynamics, deterrence strategy, and defense modernization; Member, Research and Evaluation Cell for Advancing Basic Amenities and Development, Writer and Defense Contributor — Pakistan First & Pakistan Hamesha Zindabad. The modern battlefield is increasingly removing the old boundaries between artillery rockets, ballistic…
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Pakistan’s New Short-Range Air Defense Shield
HQ-17AE, KORKUT, and ŞAHİN — A New Layer in the Indo-Pak Air Defense Competition By Major (R) Haroon Rasheed. Defense & Strategic Analyst specializing in South Asian military dynamics, deterrence strategy, and defense modernization; Member, Research and Evaluation Cell for Advancing Basic Amenities and Development, Writer and Defense Contributor — Pakistan First & Pakistan Hamesha…
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Gujrat’s Urban Flooding: A Crisis Beyond One Administrator
This article is written by Mian Haroon Masood, a political figure based in Gujrat, Pakistan. We often tend to evaluate a Deputy Commissioner primarily through the lens of cleanliness and civic management. While these are certainly important aspects of administration, they are by no means the only factors that define an effective administrator. An administrator’s role…
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SEASPARK-2026: Pakistan Navy’s Emerging Multi-Domain Maritime Power
A major exercise to showcase Pakistan’s evolving missile, drone, C4ISR, and unmanned maritime capabilities. By Major (R) Haroon Rasheed. Defense & Strategic Analyst specializing in South Asian military dynamics, deterrence strategy, and defense modernization; Member, Research and Evaluation Cell for Advancing Basic Amenities and Development, Writer and Defense Contributor — Pakistan First & Pakistan Hamesha…
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Defence Day, 06 September: Day of National Pride!
The poem is by poet Zulfiqar Khaki from Hyderabad, Sindh. In the golden words my Salute to you, oh bravo sepoy of Pakistan! The gentlemen Sepoy of Pakistan, Long live your days and nights, You sacrifice your sweet sleep and dreams of darlings, Always upon security of the mother land, and let me admit oh…
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Doomsday Coming: Aviation Industry Needs a Messiah
The article is written by Imran Aslam Khan, an Aviation Professional and Businessman. The aviation industry in Pakistan is in a state of severe decline—a crisis extensively documented by AOOA, Pakistan, which has authored several papers on the sector’s potential to alleviate the country’s economic woes. The white paper published by AOOA Pakistan in 2024…
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P-905: Pakistan’s New Drone Interceptor and the Changing Face of Air Defense
By Major (R) Haroon Rasheed. Defense & Strategic Analyst specializing in South Asian military dynamics, deterrence strategy, and defense modernization; Member, Research and Evaluation Cell for Advancing Basic Amenities and Development, Writer and Defense Contributor — Pakistan First & Pakistan Hamesha Zindabad. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and one of the clearest lessons of recent…
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Japan’s Engineering Marvels Expose Pakistan’s Failures
By Mian Haroon Masood, Gujrat-based Pakistani political figure. Today, as I woke up for my morning tea, I just couldn’t resist catching the news on TV via Al Jazeera, which couldn’t possibly retain my attention longer than ten minutes. As I began to scramble further, my eyes caught sight of a video about Japan. So…
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The New and Strong Rising Pakistan
How Operation Sindoor, the Mecca Pact, and Pakistan’s Expanding Strategic Partnerships Are Changing the Geopolitical Balance. By Major (R) Haroon Rasheed. He is a retired Pakistan Army officer and a Defense & Strategic Analyst with a particular interest in military affairs, strategic studies, geopolitics, security issues and the history of conflicts. He has written extensively…
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The Well of Barhout: The “Well of Hell” and the Mystery Beneath the Arabian Desert
The centuries-old stories of jinn, evil spirits, strange smells, and mysterious deaths — and what the Omani explorers finally discovered at the bottom. By Major (R) Haroon Rasheed. He is a retired Pakistan Army officer and a Defense & Strategic Analyst with a particular interest in military affairs, strategic studies, geopolitics, security issues and the…