Pakistan cannot afford to have an uncompetitive export-oriented sector. The country must stop following an outdated import-substitution policy that relies on levying protectionist duties as it has contributed to stagnancy in technological innovation and an anti-export bias.

On October 27, 1919, Khilafat Day was observed all over India and on November 23, 1919, the first Khilafat Conference met in Delhi. These events happened almost 102 years ago and are considered extremely important events in Muslim history.

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only created a global health crisis but has also created a learning crisis across the world for children and adolescents of school-going age. During the first wave of COVID-19, education systems in most countries including Pakistan were adversely affected

The notion of the use of force began from Stone Age, from its Neolithic period when people started dividing into groups and towns, possessing territory and attacking other groups or towns for either confiscating more parts or defending themselves in face of an attack.

American policymakers used the term "rogue states," to refer to a group of aggressively recalcitrant authoritarian countries which are ruled by irrational or crazy leaders who are inherently belligerent. The horrors of India, rushing to become an extremist Hindu state, don’t end here.

PM Imran Khan and his cabinet are providing many justifications for the soaring price inflation: a spike in global commodity markets, flawed policies of earlier governments and their corruption, etc. but none is convincing enough for the public.

This deliberate design of having a weak judicial and penal system suits the cartels, rich and arrogant politicians as well as the establishment to carry on with the petty benefits without considering the long-term effects of their actions.

It symbolised that Delhi had convinced the Pentagon that it could serve as a counterweight to China in the Pacific theatre, while also destabilising China’s economic interest across the region—particularly, the CPEC project.

Naveed Ahsan Nadeem writes an open letter to the sitting Prime Minister of Pakistan as an ordinary citizen who has always been his well-wisher, despite past differences over his politics. Despite PM's achievements, people are deeply frustrated with him and there's a tinge of regret.

This action-reaction cycle pessimistically impacts the South Asian strategic environment and alarms the probability of deterrence instability between India and Pakistan. And this is where Pakistan needs to focus as a strategic rival. It must keep a sharp eye on BMD developments.

How the mighty have fallen. India despite all efforts by Afghanistan has crashed out of the world 20/20 cup. The last few days' scenario kinds of raised the probability of India making a miraculous comeback of sorts riding on Afghan shoulder and sneaking into the semifinal.

As Middle Eastern states attempt to manage their political and security differences, Muslim-majority countries are regrouping along a fault line that separates proponents of varying concepts of an authoritarian but religiously and socially more tolerant and moderate Islam.