Turkey signals sweeping regional ambitions
A nationalist Turkish television station with close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dug up a 12-year-old map that projects Turkey’s sphere of influence in...
Role of DNA Evidence in rape cases
The virus of rape has turned itself into an epidemic. This can be observed from the available statistics. There are at least 11 rape...
Saudi schoolbooks and Recontextualizing Islam
Two decades of snail pace revisions of Saudi schoolbooks aimed at removing supremacist references to Jews, Christians, and Shiites suggest a willingness to delete...
Biden Administration and Future of Arms Control
The world is looking at President Biden with the hope that he would put an end to Trump’s isolationist and disruptive approach to domestic...
Farmers’ movement in Modi’s la-la land: What next?
India is currently in throes of a son-of the soil farmer’s movement. They have been demanding repeal of three controversial farm laws at different...
Quarreling over Iqbal’s statue
Last week turned out to be very disappointing for the much revered Allama Sir Dr Muhammad Iqbal Lahori when his home built statue was...
Can a joint media network be the future of Pak-Turk relations?
Globalization has been propelled by media. Media is basically a cultural product and the transfer and spread of this ‘product’ influences and impacts different...
India’s 2021 defence budget should open the eyes of those who criticize Pakistan
India’s finance minister presented the budget amid rumpus. She stammered a lot and avoided reading out defence allocations. When questioned why the finance minister didn’t...
Op-ed: How British, US links increased with Nazi Germany during Hitler’s power
Early this century Winston Churchill was voted “the greatest Briton of all time” in a nationwide British poll, which attracted more than a million...
Strategic Consequences Of Myanmar’s State Of Emergency: The Quad vs. China & Russia?
Myanmar entered into a year-long state of emergency after the Tatmadaw detained leaders of the formerly ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) following their refusal to...
Modi’s inability to critically think matters is satanic revenge from hell
There is no balance of wisdom in PM Narendra Modi. Either he is facilely imitating for the physical appearance of Swami Vivekanand to celebrate...
Can Police reforms justify the Use of force by the police?
The tone of official/semi-official literature on police reforms in Pakistan shows that it caters to two types of reforms: ‘policy’ and ‘service delivery’. While...