Why advisers to the Prime Minister must be expert, sincere & intellectual
Entrusted by US President Lincoln in 1864 to fight the war against the Confederacy in the American Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant led...
With US sanctions intact, China emerges as Iran’s lifeline
The Covid-19 pandemic has become a political testing ground for Iran and the US. Whether or not US should lift sanctions on Iran, is...
Afghanistan faces a new serious challenge
Coronavirus is a threat to all of humanity, but communities most at risk are those where there is illiteracy, poverty and the absence or...
Corona fight: It’s about time bureaucracy showed its performance
Faced with an unprecedented situation from the moment Chinese authorities began fighting the outbreak of Corona Virus in Wuhan city a high measure of...
Covid-19 teaches us not to take socialization & planet for granted
The proverbial saying, coined by John Milton: “every cloud has a silver lining”, holds for the prevalent situation, owing to the outbreak of Covid-19....
Modi’s new-found intolerant India
India is no more the land where the head is held high and the river of reason flows. The dreary habits of the leader...
Time to congratulate Dictatorships worldwide?
President Xi is welcoming while President Trump is adamant. President Putin is indifferent while Prime Minister Johnson is admitted in a hospital. The world...
Iran’s Corona Virus Crisis: A Clustered Issue
Iran’s state of affairs worsened with the outbreak of Covid-19 in the country during the first week of February 2020. For the time being,...
Why we Pakistanis are proud of things that are not true?!
In the mid-nineties, I had an opportunity to visit Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. It was not a particularly pleasant time to visit an...
Rising xenophobia: Are Chinese responsible for pandemic?
Amid Covid-19, another pandemic xenophobia has also enveloped the world. As per reported incidents so far, racism is surging at an exponential rate across...
Hurdles to Afghan Peace: Pak still has foremost role to play
Since the US-Taliban peace deal many fearsome incidents took place on Afghan soil. Oath-taking of two presidents in one state, the deadlock over the...
Neo-liberal world order will collapse post-COVID-19 world
COVID-19 is not just an infectious disease; it’s a sense of impending doom. Impending doom in a sense that something life-threatening or tragic is...