Climate Change and its subsequent sociopolitical unrest

Pakistan’s past, as well as newly appointed, Ministers for Climate Change recognize the gravity of the matter, but it remains to be seen how much space-effective climate policymaking is given under the current stressful economic dynamics.

Overview one year into the Nazi-Soviet War: Eight decades ago

The cold intensified further when darkness fell. On the night of 5 December 1941, just hours after the Red Army counteroffensive had begun, the thermometer in Moscow showed a recording of minus 36 degrees Celsius

FATF: A politically propelled financial enforcer

The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is to ensure the adoption, implementation and enforcement of internationally accepted anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing as per the FATF.

Analyzing the evolving non-traditional security threats for Pakistan

Pakistan’s environmental vulnerability and challenges indicate that the country will become unlivable if the situation continues to deteriorate at the current pace. The country's policymakers and practitioners need a change in mindset

Countering China by imitating China

The United States is less competitive than China in the infrastructure sector, partly because most Chinese enterprises engaged in BRI infrastructure development are state-owned and receive substantial government subsidies.

Muslims of India: The new target of BJP?

The fall of the Indian National Congress to the BJP in 2014 has been attributed to the continuous instability in South Asia by policymakers and other academics. The BJP government was led by the RSS.

CPEC: A ray of hope for Balochistan development?

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a flagship of the Belt and Road initiative launched in 2015. Various analysts viewed it as a game-changer because of its connectivity plan and regional markets from China to South Asia.

How environmental laws in Pakistan are a product of judicial activism?

Judicial activism is a necessary evil. No doubt, it can never be a substitute for a proper and popular consensus-based policy. But, in an educationally backward, economically developing and politically polarized country, it is more of a corrective response to political failures

The case of India’s human rights violations

The BJP-led Hindu right-wing has initiated demographic engineering of the Jammu and Kashmir in compliance with the Hindutva proposed Hindu majoritarian state of Kashmir as the only solution for the territorial integrity of the disputed land to Hindu Rashtra.

A prolonged refugee crisis in Bangladesh

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Arakan Project, and Fortify Rights are just a few of the advocacy organizations that continue to call for international pressure on Myanmar's government to repatriate Rohingyas from Bangladesh.

Why India is the sick man of Asia?

The unabashed BJP-RSS Hindu-chauvinist nexus is ‘othering’ Muslims and other minorities under the watch of the international community. This vividly illustrates that India’s demonization of Muslims is a global phenomenon.

The political hypocrisy in Pakistan

The G20 or Group of Twenty is an intergovernmental forum comprising nineteen countries and the European Union. It works to address major issues related to the global economy, such as international financial stability.