Coronavirus battle: Why not a collective response?
There is a miasma of despair that is staring into our faces because of the coronavirus. It is not just because of the rising...
A pressure cooker situation in Kashmir
The world has been hit hard by the novel coronavirus. Almost everything has come to a standstill. Life has never been so calm yet...
Saudi Arabia’s MBS struggles as geopolitics gets out of hand
Oil Price War: Saudi US Rift Combatting the coronavirus and coping with the pandemic’s economic fallout may be Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s...
China takes over the world leadership role abandoned by US
For nearly a century, or at least three-quarters of one, the United States has embraced a leadership role in the international arena. From World...
Covid-19: Say no to conspiracy theories or invite another crisis
United States’ President Donald Trump thinks that COVID19 is a `Chinese virus’. Conspiracy theories are making rounds that the virus was compounded in a...
Pakistan: A sleeping technology giant
The output of scientific research if not directed and applied is paper publication. After research comes development and its application is followed by the...
Ehsas Emergency Program: Making it work
Data is prerequisite for making informed decision and policy making. This is important for relief work in general and Ehsas Emergency Program in particular....
Hidden motives behind Israel-Azerbaijan alliance
Populated by fluent Hebrew speakers, the Israel desk of Armenia’s foreign ministry waited back in 1991 in the wake of the collapse of the...
Kashmir issue will not be settled by means of speeches & majority decisions but by iron & blood
Kashmir issue is the unfinished agenda of the Partition in 1947 which was left behind by the British. This has bedevilled Indo-Pakistan relations. The...
Ramzan: Less-known benefits of fasting
Ramzan is one of the most sacred months of the Islamic calendar. In this blessed month, the holy Quran was revealed and fasting was...
Modi’s India is no more white & green; it is all saffron
The lynching of two sadhus and their driver at Dhabadi-Khanvel road near Gadchinchale Palghar, while they were going to Silvassa reveals how abysmal the...
How Pakistan became safer than New York
Let me go out on a limb and say something that could come back and haunt me. Pakistan is doing well at managing the...