Future of Pakistan-Taliban relationship: Are the tides changing?
Pakistan wanted an ally on its west border that can oppose India and anti-Pakistan elements. Afghan Taliban being the ideologically driven faction emerged as indirectly favoring Pakistan. Though most of the Taliban are ethnic Pashtun, their ethnicity has never taken over their ideological identity,
The Red Army’s winter counterattack 80 years ago
The Soviet Army managed to drive the Wehrmacht back from the gates of Moscow, they were unable to turn the counterattack into a rout; which, in that event, would most probably have led to the German Army's disintegration in the winter of 1941-42.
Qatar, like Saudi Arabia and the UAE cleanses its textbooks
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia are Qatar's major competitors. The UAE and Saudi Arabia, in contrast to other competitors for religious soft power and leadership of the Muslim world, like Turkey and Iran, have already significantly revised their school textbooks.
How TTP has been a trouble maker in Pakistan?
So far, Pakistan has been doing its best to prevent TTP from terrorist activity by negotiating peace with TTP, but is there any consequence from such actions? Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran has previously been in talks with some of the Theek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist groups
How Nadir Shah could have fixed Lahore?
Nadir Shah became a leader of a gang of bandits and prepared them for war and conquest, statesmanship or administration was not his forte. He had a killer instinct and ruled through extortion, terror and torture. Finally, when his inhuman acts became unbearable.
What Covid-19 pandemic revealed about the prevailing global politics?
The post-Covid-19 world has changed in many ways but remains the same in others. The pandemic has, in fact, intensified the issues in global politics- hyper-nationalism has evolved into vaccine nationalism, US-China rivalry has spilled over into multilateral platforms like the WHO.
Debunking the relationship between exports and currency devaluation
Being a developing country with a high inflation rate, Pakistan implements full dollarization for its industrial imports. This itself refutes the concept of debilitating exchange rates affecting the trade of the country. Pakistan’s goods and services exports amounted to nearly $31 billion.
The Russell Tribunal on Kashmiri women
The Russell Tribunal focused on genocide, de-colonization, the phenomenon of settler-colonialism including land-grabs, coercive patriotism, and the theme of nuclear war and threat to global peace. Different witnesses from IIOJK also narrated their accounts of atrocities faced by themselves.
Afghanistan imbroglio needs immediate attention lest it’s too late
The country, which was the front-line ally was either stigmatized with the double game or responsible for the creation of the ‘Frankenstein Monster’ and ironically attacked by its own allied forces. The state of Pakistan was sandwiched between two opposing forces: the allied and radicals.
How West’s double standards is running the world into chaos?
A cursory look into various constitutions endorses the same for example the US guarantees freedom of speech to every citizen under the First Amendment to Constitution 1787 however imposes Restrictions on incitement, defamation, fraud, and obscenity,
Are Pakistan’s concerns of encirclement justified?
Pakistan’s fear of strategic encirclement by a hostile Indian and anti-Pakistan government in Kabul is a sound threat, substantiated facts from history. However, the current discourse is flawed in two ways; first, India is not the crucial factor in this assessment of encirclement;
How 1980s was a crucial time in Indian politics?
It was time for the right-wing group of leaders in BJP and Shiv Sena, as well as PM Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s majoritarian politics. Some of them could hardly cover themselves with the fig leaf of secularism. The right-wing Hindutva groups were not just unabashed.