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Monday, November 17, 2025

The emerging cold war in the indo pacific region

U.S Indo-Pacific Strategy declares China, Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) as the new rivals and ramped up its new cold war in the Indo Pacific. The immediate contest is referred to as a ‘tri-polar tug of war’ between these three emerging threats in the Indo-Pacific.

Afghanistan: The way forward

While the United States has left Afghanistan, it has frozen the Afghan financial assets worth $9.5 billion and crippled its banking system due to tight restrictions, constraining in turn, the Taliban from paying its public employees and delivering essential services and goods like health care.

Mayor of Lahore: Will the new ideology prevail?

In case of an election, a road map of service to the people is needed. Considering the overall decline of my city and country in the last four decades, it has turned into big business with very impressive/unbeatable ROI figures. Once the duel comes to an end and the term of office.

Fixing perception and realities about Pakistan

While realities often serve as input to build perceptions, but realities change with time but the speed with which the perceptions change is not the same as do the realities in an ever-evolving world. Realities and Perceptions are therefore intertwined in a cyclical process

Is India not a secular democracy anymore?

Grish Chandra Murmu the first Lieutenant Governor of JK was also an IAS category officer who rose to this height apart from his educational qualification was one who sanitized the cases against the genocide that were filed against Modi.

Future of Pakistan-Taliban relationship: Are the tides changing?

Pakistan wanted an ally on its west border that can oppose India and anti-Pakistan elements. Afghan Taliban being the ideologically driven faction emerged as indirectly favoring Pakistan. Though most of the Taliban are ethnic Pashtun, their ethnicity has never taken over their ideological identity,

Qatar, like Saudi Arabia and the UAE cleanses its textbooks

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia are Qatar's major competitors. The UAE and Saudi Arabia, in contrast to other competitors for religious soft power and leadership of the Muslim world, like Turkey and Iran, have already significantly revised their school textbooks.

How TTP has been a trouble maker in Pakistan?

So far, Pakistan has been doing its best to prevent TTP from terrorist activity by negotiating peace with TTP, but is there any consequence from such actions? Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran has previously been in talks with some of the Theek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist groups

How Nadir Shah could have fixed Lahore?

Nadir Shah became a leader of a gang of bandits and prepared them for war and conquest, statesmanship or administration was not his forte. He had a killer instinct and ruled through extortion, terror and torture. Finally, when his inhuman acts became unbearable.

What Covid-19 pandemic revealed about the prevailing global politics?

The post-Covid-19 world has changed in many ways but remains the same in others. The pandemic has, in fact, intensified the issues in global politics- hyper-nationalism has evolved into vaccine nationalism, US-China rivalry has spilled over into multilateral platforms like the WHO.

Debunking the relationship between exports and currency devaluation

Being a developing country with a high inflation rate, Pakistan implements full dollarization for its industrial imports. This itself refutes the concept of debilitating exchange rates affecting the trade of the country. Pakistan’s goods and services exports amounted to nearly $31 billion.

The Russell Tribunal on Kashmiri women

The Russell Tribunal focused on genocide, de-colonization, the phenomenon of settler-colonialism including land-grabs, coercive patriotism, and the theme of nuclear war and threat to global peace. Different witnesses from IIOJK also narrated their accounts of atrocities faced by themselves.