Repercussions of tensions between India and China for Asia
The uprising of Ladakh in 1959 had transformed into a full-fledged war between China and India in 1962. It resulted in a rather unfavourable...
How to help rural Pakistan’s women amid Covid-19
With COVID-19 wreaking havoc to the economic, social and political fabric of societies worldwide, the gendered impact of the outbreak is being debated by...
Achilles heel for PTI: The foreign funding case
Seventy is the number of times the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) scrutiny committee has met, so far, in the PTI-foreign funding case. Make...
America faces not one but two pandemics
America is being ravaged by not one, but two, pandemics and both have a lot in common. Both are invisible, equally widespread, mutate in response...
Tracing the roots of Hindutva & Modi’s BJP party
Modi is not wrong in heralding the spectre of Akhund Bharat, currently resting in the Reich of Hindutva. He is not wrong in fancying...
The rocky road of US-Taliban peace agreement
It took the Trump administration 17 months to clinch a preliminary agreement with the Taliban – a first step toward ending more than 18...
Why lower energy costs don’t trickle down in Pakistan
As energy prices hit new lows in international markets - due to plummeting global demand owing to the Coronavirus - business dynamics in Pakistan...
Pandemic modifies US-China power dynamics
The coronavirus pandemic is proving to be the most lethal blow to the western (American) world order. It has exposed the lop-sidedness of the...
When will Pakistan take plight of child labourers seriously?
Dr. Monazza Aslam & Dr. Shenila Rawal A simple google search for underage domestic workers in Pakistan brings up harrowing accounts of child torture, child...
Nation branding: shaping narratives through soft power
Branding is the meticulous creation and cultivation of a unique, distinct and separable identity in the public’s consciousness. Branding – of individuals, corporate entities...
Who is sabotaging Afghan peace agreement
There is more or less no doubt left that after a gap of nearly two decades, the world is again looking forward to a...
BJP generates stories for anti-Muslim sentiments
Nations are narrations”, goes the saying. These narrations are transmitted across people in the form of stories that culminate into a common national narrative....