A gloomy tale of Pakistan and the Olympics
Olympics, the ancient, and the largest gaming festival mark its beginning in 776 BC. The foundation of the sporting festival, initiated by Heracles, the...
Is Pakistan fueling a Taliban takeover?
Dr. Hussain Nadim argues that the political blame game played by the Afghanistan government is to deflect from its own administrative failures and incompetencies. He maintained that Pakistan has only helped its neighbor at the time of turmoil. The piece was originally published by the Lowy Institute and is republished here with the author's consent.
How do Russia, Pakistan, China, Iran and India view the Taliban’s rise in Afghanistan?
The Pentagon has talked about establishing some sort of military base in the region to monitor terrorist activity within Afghanistan. It says this presence...
Countering the hydro-hegemony in South Asia: Can Pakistan’s geographical disadvantages be mitigated?
The talk of ‘impending water wars’ has been around for over two decades now. Back in 1995, the World Bank’s former Vice-President Ismail Serageldin...
Who killed pro-freedom Kashmiri leader Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai?
On May 5, 2021, the highly symbolic Kashmiri freedom leader, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Chairman of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), died of COVID-19 while...
Rethinking FIR in the era of modern-day crimes
Crime, in the modern-day, has evolved to become more sophisticated and less traceable. Therefore, a corresponding shift needs to take place in the prosecutorial and judicial application of relevant law. And in this process, a rethinking of the sanctity that our criminal justice system affords to the FIR is perhaps the first step.
Korybko’s response To Hoodbhoy: Security dilemmas ruined Afghanistan
Mr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, an Islamabad-based physicist and writer, published a piece in Dawn on 31 July titled “Who messed up Afghanistan?” He posits that...
How the US messed up in Afghanistan
The US and its allies were drunk with power and took pride in their sophisticated war munitions, technology and wealth. They were sure to...
Why did Russia and Turkey set sights on a war-torn Syria?
Russia and Turkey have always been like two sides of the same coin when it came to their intervention in Syria. Both the countries...
Experiencing secondary trauma as a result of prevalent GBV in Pakistan
The UNFPA Pakistan website states ‘A staggering 32 per cent of women have experienced physical violence in Pakistan and 40 per cent of ever-married...
Declining performance of bureaucracy in Pakistan
Commissioner Gujranwala, the great pet lover, lost his pedigreed German Shepherd dog. As the loss was unstainable, he decided to launch a street search....
The future of PTI’s government in AJK
Manufacture and flouting of alliances have been a high-flying facet of party politics. The rise and decay of alliances remained in fashion till the...