How Germany restored civilian supremacy: Ludendorff and Kapp Putsch
A century ago, on 13 March 1920, a far-right coup d'etat was implemented against the nascent Weimar Republic, known as the Kapp Putsch, which...
Has Imran Khan forgotten PAT and the Model Town massacre victims?
PM Imran Khan, I am writing this to remind you of an old promise that you might have forgotten about after assuming the state's...
Middle East problems amplified by coronavirus
A second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is raising its ugly head. It is putting Middle East leaders at a crossroads as they struggle...
Indo-China tensions: excellent opportunity for Pakistan to cash in?
We have always missed opportune moments to resolve the Kashmir dispute. In the 1962 India/China war, we should have attacked or at least moved...
From Chiniot to Harvard; the story of a boy from Pakistan
From matriculation in Chiniot and a Bachelors degree in Karachi to Harvard University in USA; my journey has had me attend top institutes in...
Repercussions of tensions between India and China for Asia
The uprising of Ladakh in 1959 had transformed into a full-fledged war between China and India in 1962. It resulted in a rather unfavourable...
How to help rural Pakistan’s women amid Covid-19
With COVID-19 wreaking havoc to the economic, social and political fabric of societies worldwide, the gendered impact of the outbreak is being debated by...
Achilles heel for PTI: The foreign funding case
Seventy is the number of times the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) scrutiny committee has met, so far, in the PTI-foreign funding case. Make...
America faces not one but two pandemics
America is being ravaged by not one, but two, pandemics and both have a lot in common. Both are invisible, equally widespread, mutate in response...
Tracing the roots of Hindutva & Modi’s BJP party
Modi is not wrong in heralding the spectre of Akhund Bharat, currently resting in the Reich of Hindutva. He is not wrong in fancying...
The rocky road of US-Taliban peace agreement
It took the Trump administration 17 months to clinch a preliminary agreement with the Taliban – a first step toward ending more than 18...
Why lower energy costs don’t trickle down in Pakistan
As energy prices hit new lows in international markets - due to plummeting global demand owing to the Coronavirus - business dynamics in Pakistan...