Farrukh Saleem (

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-based Pakistani political scientist, economist, financial analyst, journalist and a television personality. He has published articles on

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and

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s. He served as the executive director of the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) and as chairman of The Pakistan Footwear Manufacturers Association (PFMA).

Career

Educated in the United States, Dr. Saleem managed equities portfolio invested in the

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between 1988 until 1994. Upon returning to Pakistan, he began writing

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analyst articles for ''

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''. Prior to that, he also contributed in a weekly column for the ''

Dawn newspaper ''Dawn'' is a Pakistani English-language newspaper that was launched in British India in 1941. It is the largest English newspaper in Pakistan, and also serves as the country's newspaper of record. ''Dawn'' is the flagship publication of the Da ...

'' in 1996. His work has covered geopolitical dynamics involving Pakistan,

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and

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. He also authored columnist paper for the Canadian newspaper, the ''

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''. In addition, Saleem has been a guest columnist for the Hong Kong-based ''

Far Eastern Economic Review The ''Far Eastern Economic Review'' (''FEER'') was an Asian business magazine published between 1946 and December 2009 in the English language. Based in Hong Kong, the news magazine published weekly until December 2004, when it converted to a m ...

'' and the Asia Literary Review. He has served as the CEO of Dominion Stock Funds Limited, a KSE-listed company, and later on as the executive director of the Center for Research and Security Studies (as of December 2011).

Writings and advocacy

Threat Matrix ''Threat Matrix'' is an American drama television series created by Daniel Voll that aired on ABC from September 18, 2003 to January 29, 2004 which lasted 16 episodes. The plot consisted of the events in a United States Homeland Security anti-t ...
and the Afghan war

Saleem has provided a critical analyses of

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's security doctrine. As President

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announced the troop evacuation from Afghanistan, Saleem published his article, ''

Threat matrix ''Threat Matrix'' is an American drama television series created by Daniel Voll that aired on ABC from September 18, 2003 to January 29, 2004 which lasted 16 episodes. The plot consisted of the events in a United States Homeland Security anti-t ...

'', which Saleem argues that ''threat matrix'' has five major elements:

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nuclear Nuclear may refer to: Physics Relating to the nucleus of the atom: * Nuclear engineering *Nuclear physics *Nuclear power *Nuclear reactor *Nuclear weapon *Nuclear medicine *Radiation therapy *Nuclear warfare Mathematics *Nuclear space *Nuclear ...

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

, cyber and economic. The first two threats are existential while the last two are non-existential. Saleem further argued that since the country is fighting a "4G War" where the combatants are the state of Pakistan and

violent non-state actor In international relations, violent non-state actors (VNSAs), also known as non-state armed actors or non-state armed groups (NSAGs), are individuals or groups that are wholly or partly independent of governments and which threaten or use viole ...

s (VNSA) from various country, the threats posed by them threaten the "very basis of the state and its physical existence." Existential threats essentially threaten the "unity, demography and integrity" of a nation-state. In March 2013, Saleem applied his theoretical insights to analyse the "Kayanian Doctrine"— a

geopolitical Geopolitics (from Greek γῆ ''gê'' "earth, land" and πολιτική ''politikḗ'' "politics") is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations. While geopolitics usually refers to ...

contingency armed program of

built on four pillars, comprises: *American troops would have to withdraw from Afghanistan. *Reconciliation among Afghan factions is not possible without the ISI. *The Jalalabad-Torkham-Karachi route remains the most viable for withdrawing American forces. *India cannot be allowed to encircle Pakistan. Saleem observes that the doctrine has apparently put India out of the Afghan war equation but in all probability, Pakistan's security challenges are going to become even more challenging when the militants of all sorts and forms could team up in their attempt to subdue Pakistan in which Pakistan military has no contingency plan.

Pakistan's economy

''Pipedream'' and Game Theory

After the official bilateral signing of IPI Gas pipeline, Saleem remained sceptical towards the building the pipelines. Saleem argued that a "pipedream" is being inaugurated, not a pipeline. In 2009, Saleem published "''Game Theory''" and provided an explanatory thesis on mathematical "heptagonal game matrix" which, the

, the PPP, the PML-N, US the media and the judiciary as major players in the heptagon matrix.

Israel and Jews

Saleem has written about the

Jewish people Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""Th ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

and its geopolitical policies. He advocated for directing a friendly-

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for

. His most notable article, "''Why are Jews so powerful and Muslims so powerless?''", argues that, despite the fact that for every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful than all the Muslims put together. Concluding the article, Saleem pointed out that, the

Muslim world The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere to the religious beliefs and laws of Islam or to societies in which Islam is practiced. I ...

is failing to diffuse knowledge.

Publications

References

External links

Farrukh Saleem's articles
at

Tag: Dr Saleem's articles
on Pakdiscussion
The 4th generation War by Dr. Farrukh Saleem
on GVS NEWS, YouTube
Official Twitter profile
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