Governance Challenges in Ex-FATA region
The post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) is never a smooth affair, necessitating the imperative of security, justice, governance and socio-economic well being of the people. The...
Thomas Piketty’s latest book ‘Capital and Ideology’ making waves worldwide
Thomas Piketty’s latest book, Capital and Ideology, which is now also available in the English version, is making a lot of waves worldwide and...
Water is the New Gold: An Emerging Source of Global Conflicts
Depleting potable water resources have sent alarm across the globe pertaining to the emergence of a new spree of future global conflicts in quest...
Is Pakistan’s political map of disputed Jammu and Kashmir really an “absurdity”?
India used all expletives in its not-so-diplomatic lexicon to point out that revision of Pakistan's political map was an “absurdity”. It does not appear...
Violence Against Kashmiri Women
August 5 was celebrated all over the world, including Pakistan, as 'Kashmir Exploitation Day' (یوم استحصال). On the same day last year, India declared...
Change of Guards in the Health Sector: Challenges and Options
Health and nutrition have been key agenda points of the PTI manifesto ever since PTI started parliamentary politics. The Prime Minter in his victory...
Time for Indo-Pakistan Talks: Rejoinder to Praveen Swami
Praveen Swami in his apparently innocent and well-meaning article titled ‘The Time might have come for India and Pakistan to talk’ has made designed...
Who is responsible for India’s democratic downfall?
Democracy is in decline across the world. Freedom House reported that democracy around the world was ‘under assault and in retreat around the globe’. Michael J....
Family Laws in Pakistan: Dissecting the Procedure
An Indian judge of the Supreme Court A. K. Sikri observed that the law of a society is a living organism. It is based...
Kashmir: India’s Bleeding Wound
Kashmir is the real theatre of unspeakable violence and moral corrosion that can spin us into violence and nuclear war at any moment. To prevent...
Another Cold War at the Gates: A Strategic Calculus for National Security of Pakistan
Doklaam and Ladakh incidents are nothing less than a chapter break in the strategic landscape between India and China. They are a fundamental redefinition...
5 August 2019: A Defining Moment In Indo-Sino Relations
Most observers at the time regarded India's de-facto annexation of Jammu & Kashmir on 5 August 2019 as being a defining moment for either...