Future of the Kashmir Issue

When we look at the history of Indian subcontinent, it has always remained a womb of many disputes and battles, being a gateway of...

Rejiggering Gulf Security: China’s Game of Shadow Boxing

China and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a complex game of shadow boxing to shape a future security framework for the Gulf designed to...

What is the future of India Sri Lanka relations?

The stupendous victory of the Mahinda Rajapaksa’s new floated SLPP (people’s party) does not augur well for democracy in Sri Lanka. India The Sri Lankan...

The Sino-Iranian Partnership and the Regional impacts

The global pandemic has brought many strategic shifts across globe. Highlighted among them is the economic downswing of America and China sensing the vulnerability...

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....