The Digital Dilemma: Does Pakistan need Social Media to Remain Relevant in the Global Economy?
“Do not quote Wikipedia whilst doing research” were the words of my professor at Cambridge who taught us an essential course on Strategy. He...
Myanmar: Exploiting lessons learnt in the Middle East
Demonstrating for the third week their determination to force the country’s military to return to its barracks, protesters in Myanmar appear to be learning...
Pakistan media: is it destroying youth potential?
Pakistani media is often criticized for the kind of content they show on television, but there are many aspects of media that we don’t...
AJK Elections 2021- What does Kashmir demand?
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” M.L. King. If we judge ourselves on this quote, most...
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...