US withdrawing troops from Afghanistan: Implications for Region
Opinion | Reports from Washington indicate the US will announce partial troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in the next few days. The withdrawal of 4000 troops...
Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) – An Insurance Policy
The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) was approved by the Indian Parliament. The bill was passed and now in India, religious discrimination is the law...
A painful journey towards Kaptaan’s Naya Pakistan
Opinion | Transitions are always painful and difficult leaving behind the old and accepting the new order is never easy. Cleansing requires rapid and brutal...
Will Turkey’s Model work in Pakistan?
Opinion | The Indian establishment, including political leadership, is running into a strange predicament. Never before has India’s image looked so visibly sullied in comparison...
Pakistan Air Force: Rising above the Oblivion
The elephant in the room for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is that its adversary, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is larger, better equipped...
CAB: Modi’s reckless move towards erection of Hindu Rashtra
The passage of the contentious bill, billed as “Citizenship Amendment Bill” (CAB) by the Indian parliament a few days back has sparked a violent...
Mine-d your own business: Khewra, Reko Diq, and Saindak
Pakistan is a land blessed with an abundant quantity of natural resources – this cliché is one all Pakistanis have heard and repeated themselves...
Thank you Mr. Chief Justice for not saving my mother: She was not important anyway
Justice, Your Lordship I have been advised against writing this letter. People wiser than me have pointed out that writing this letter will be, at...
US-China trade deal & impacts on global economy
Opinion | The agreement on the terms of the first phase of a trade deal between the US and China broadly envisages that Washington would reduce some tariffs on Chinese...
Provocation and the Lawyers
Opinion | Aggression can be defined as “any behavior directed toward another individual that is carried out with the intent to cause harm”. Among various...
Did Pakistan lose more than just a war in 1971?
History is written by the victorious and they always glorify themselves and demonize the looser. Generations pass through buying the captors' fabricated plot while...
Fact and fiction in India’s persecution hypothesis
The whole superstructure of the Indian government’s citizenship amendment bill, now enacted, is erected on the claim that religious minorities have been brutally persecuted...