Pakistan SC acquits terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh
Islamabad has always held a tough stance against New Delhi over its policies on Kashmir, either be it stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its special status or imposing a lockdown and suspending telecom services in the Valley.
Amid all, Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa s softened stance on Kashmir and talks about mutual respect, coexistence and a dignified solution with India , triggering new interest in his words, not long after Islamabad directed its diplomats in India not attend the Republic Day ceremonies on January 26.
Addressing the graduating cadets at Pakistan Air Force Academy Asghar Khan, the COAS on Tuesday said that Pakistan is a peace loving country that has rendered great sacrifices for regional and global peace. We stand firmly committed to the ideal of mutual respect and peaceful co-existence, he said.
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Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, and regularly appears as commentator in the media. She co-hosts the Sicherheitshalber Podcast, a German-language podcast on security and defence.
She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford – in her PhD thesis, she studied the use of drones by western armed forces. She also holds a BA from Sciences Po Paris and a double summa cum laude MA degree from Sciences Po Paris (Affaires internationales/Sécurité internationale) and the University of St. Gallen (International Affairs and Governance).
Franke is a policy affiliate at the Governance of AI project at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. She was also part of UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism Ben Emmerson’s research team, examining drone use in counterterrorism contexts. Prior to this she worked as a part-time research assistant at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS)