Nagorno-Karabakh’s importance in the realm of energy geopolitics?
Armenian President Sarkissian told Kommersant in an exclusive interview that Turkey's interest in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is related to energy geopolitics. According to him,...
Afghanistan: A graveyard of empires?
Afghanistan is a notoriously difficult country to govern. Empire after empire, nation after nation have failed to pacify what is today the modern territory...
Intra-Afghan talks: Understanding the ground realities
Over five weeks into their first face to face meeting, the Afghan government and the Taliban delegations have yet to agree even on the...
What does the future hold for Caucasus?
The Eurasian region of Caucasus has yet seen another wave of horrendous violence after 1990's as Azerbaijani and Armenian forces are engaged with each...
How to reform Pakistan’s education system? An unpopular opinion
Prof. Rana Eijaz Ahmad/Farah Adeed | Education experts and academics in Pakistan have long argued that heinous crimes like the molestation of children and violence...
Foreign forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan is not ‘hasty’
There is a perception that any ‘hasty’ exit of foreign forces from Afghanistan would generate chaos and the country might plunge into a civil...
Op-Ed: How history belies Nawaz Sharif’s ‘progressive’ politics
Power without political struggle has always been disastrous. In the chequered political history of Pakistan, there have been only two genuine national political parties....
Does law of sedition undermine free speech?
With a crime report registered against the senior politicians of this country under the law of sedition; a controversy arises: whether the law of...
The RSS’s surreptitious censorship of syllabus: An effort to distort history
Under the RSS’s influence, syllabi in several states have been surreptitiously altered to accommodate pro-Hindutva material. India’s Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr....
Demographic change: The constant Kashmiri fear
August: a month of powerlessness and repression, has indeed been unwieldy for the people of Kashmir valley since 1947. A year ago, on 5...
Op-ed: A tale of two bears
In Martin Waddell’s children’s storybook titled "Two Brown Bears", Joe Bear and Harriet Bear have fun adventures, they convert bicycles into planes and go...
Pakistan’s low saving-low investment dilemma
Saving and investment are pre-eminent variables for any developing country as they yield positive dividends to economic growth, price stability, and employment level. Pakistan...