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Sunday, July 13, 2025

The Kashmir Dispute and January 5, 1949

Today, India keeps on arguing that the Kashmir dispute is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, and hence it can’t be brought to the international fora for its peaceful resolution. Historically speaking, it is a fact that Pakistan attested the latter in the Shimla Agreement of July.

The fate of Pakistan’s Geo-economic strategy

Pakistan’s geo-economic strategy is doomed to fail if it cannot build a solid foundation. China attained consistent double-digit growth over multiple decades before it embarked on its geo-economic agenda. Other main practitioners possess vast reserves of energy resources.

After Lives: AbdulRazak Gurnah’s tribute to humanism

Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic who lives in the United Kingdom. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution.

Famine: Ethiopia’s man-made disaster

The current situation in Ethiopia is adding to a cycle of concerns that will keep the vehicle of humanitarian crises moving for months or worse, years. Internal conflicts can affect a country more than external pressures, as the man-made humanitarian disaster in Tigray demonstrates.

Is Kazakhstan Russia’s next Ukraine?

Kazakhstan shares a 6,846-kilometer-long border with Russia, the world's second-longest frontier. The country hosts a Russian minority that accounts for 20 percent of the population. Ethnic Russians carry their empathy for the motherland on their sleeves.

Why is Islamophobia on the rise in the Western world?

For an average person, Islamophobia as a phenomenon emerged post 9/11 and became politically acceptable during the 2010’s decade. An examination of Western discourse on the Islamic world, however, suggests that stereotyping Muslims is an old phenomenon.

Why is there a global price hike in the oil market?

Today, due to widespread vaccinations in the world's major oil and gas-consuming economies, global oil demand is rapidly returning to pre-pandemic levels (the U.S., China, Europe). With more mobility and traffic patterns, life is returning to normal.

The emerging cold war in the indo pacific region

U.S Indo-Pacific Strategy declares China, Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) as the new rivals and ramped up its new cold war in the Indo Pacific. The immediate contest is referred to as a ‘tri-polar tug of war’ between these three emerging threats in the Indo-Pacific.

Afghanistan: The way forward

While the United States has left Afghanistan, it has frozen the Afghan financial assets worth $9.5 billion and crippled its banking system due to tight restrictions, constraining in turn, the Taliban from paying its public employees and delivering essential services and goods like health care.

Mayor of Lahore: Will the new ideology prevail?

In case of an election, a road map of service to the people is needed. Considering the overall decline of my city and country in the last four decades, it has turned into big business with very impressive/unbeatable ROI figures. Once the duel comes to an end and the term of office.

Fixing perception and realities about Pakistan

While realities often serve as input to build perceptions, but realities change with time but the speed with which the perceptions change is not the same as do the realities in an ever-evolving world. Realities and Perceptions are therefore intertwined in a cyclical process

Is India not a secular democracy anymore?

Grish Chandra Murmu the first Lieutenant Governor of JK was also an IAS category officer who rose to this height apart from his educational qualification was one who sanitized the cases against the genocide that were filed against Modi.