Why dried fruits are a gift of winters?
Dried fruits eaten in winter contain all the essential nutrients needed for energy and fresh blood in the body, but due to high prices, dried fruits are out of reach of citizens. According to doctors, what is eaten in winter affects the body because the digestive system speeds up in this season.
Aafia Siddiqui and Pakistan’s common destiny
The American ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson had been denying till then that Aafia was even held by the Americans. In fact, she, a US citizen as well as her two children, was kidnapped from Pakistan on March 30 2003 and put through ignominious extraordinary renditions
Brinkmanship: Moscow’s Proxies against Brussels
Proxies are often skilled at exploiting people's dissatisfaction with the government and the majority in order to obtain power. The belligerent power attempts to increase suspicion by putting their cards behind the head of secessionist movements that is promoting a nasty narrative.
Revitalization of long-standing Kashmir issue and the contemporary world
The world is changing rapidly and so are the ideologies and conceptions. We must gird up the line to do something practical to raise our voices for the fundamental right of self-determination for Kashmir. We are in dire need to review and revitalize the helm of affairs
Mustafa Akyol’s Defense of Liberty is also about peacebuilding
Why, as a Muslim, I Defend Liberty, Cato Institute senior fellow Mustafa Akyol offers a nuanced critique of these problems by acknowledging their roots in the religious tradition. Yet he also shows that there are strong grounds in the same religious tradition to defend freedom of speech
Analyzing the importance of South China Sea and Regional Disputes
The security issues around it always remain a focus of international attention. The SCS hosts numerous islands, rocks, and reefs as a semi-enclosed area. The sea is believed to have rich reserves of oil, natural gas and fishery stocks. It provides sea routes for maritime shipping and naval mobility
Kazakhstan, like Ukraine, spotlights the swapping of the rule of law
Central Asian members of the organization, a brainchild of the now embattled former president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, joined Turkey at its recent summit in November in Istanbul in sending subtle and less subtle signals to both Russia and China as well as Iran.
How Russia can play an important role in implementing Pakistan’s National Security Policy?
Joint cooperation on these regional connectivity initiatives isn’t the only role that Russia can play in implementing Pakistan’s NSP though since there are several other promising opportunities as well. The document’s focus is on ensuring energy security through traditional and renewable means.
Reshaping the geopolitics of Middle East
The post-US- Middle East stage is already set, and Iran is likely to triumph over Saudi Arabia. In case of a significant US disengagement from the region following scenarios can occur, first is a continuation of prolonged proxy wars with both Iran and Saudi Arabia vying for dominance.
Indian engagement in West Asia: Challenges and opportunities for Pakistan
New Delhi skillfully handled the balancing act between three major blocs in West Asia, the Arab Gulf, Iran and Israel. Its relations with Turkey, however, are not currently the best. The economy of India and the Gulf countries has increasingly inter-wined in the recent past.
Why Kazakhstan has some important lessons for the Gulf?
The president of Kazakhstan has claimed that the recent violent demonstrations that have shaken the country were an "attempted coup d'état" by "armed fighters", adding that his forces would "never" fire on peaceful protesters. China reportedly offered to send law enforcement.
“Omicron”: A threat to world order?
Omicron fuels old covid conspiracy theories, since 2019, when covid-19 was first detected in the Wuhan city of China, many conspiracy theories came out regarding this deadly virus. Some people believed that Covid-19 was a pre-planned variant