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...

Hagia Sophia: Reclaiming One’s Islamic Identity

Beautifully situated on the shores of the Bosphorus straits connecting the Marmara Sea to the Black Sea and regarded as the border between Europe...

Simmering Cauldron of South China Sea: Trump’s bullying antics

Washington especially with Trump, has a long record of bullying nations to meet its demands, changing regimes and of engaging in illegal wars of...

Ease of Doing Business: Real Reforms are still to come

The Ease of doing business index ranks countries against each other based on how much the regulatory environment is conducive to business operations in...

CPEC & the Greater Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Southern Asia’s politics is being intensely driven by the varying dynamics and developments of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Even a single project’s take-off in Pakistan...

Will China collapse for lack of inclusive institutions?

In his book 'The Age of the Economist', Daniel R. Fusfeld tells how economics governs our life today. In today’s market or quasi-market economies,...