Who will win US Presidential elections 2020?

As the race for US Presidential elections 2020 enters a very important phase as November 3rd, the polls day draws nearer, President Donald Trump's...

Op-ed: Modi’s Hindutva ideology has failed India’s secularism

The sudden and complete failure of the Indian polity is at hand thanks to the relentless pursuit of Hindutva ideology. If criminal procedure act...

Op-ed: Trump is to politics what Shahid Afridi was to cricket

In the movie Training Day, there is this scene where Denzel Washington is reading his morning newspaper at a diner. A new police officer...

‘Neo-Ottomanism’ vs ‘Greater Armenia’: What caused the war in Nagorno-Karabakh?

The global pro-Armenian lobby has been propagating the infowar narrative that Turkey's policy of so-called “Neo-Ottomanism” is responsible for the Nagorno-Karabakh continuation war, and...

How to reform Pakistan’s education system? An unpopular opinion

Prof. Rana Eijaz Ahmad/Farah Adeed | Education experts and academics in Pakistan have long argued that heinous crimes like the molestation of children and violence...

Foreign forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan is not ‘hasty’

There is a perception that any ‘hasty’ exit of foreign forces from Afghanistan would generate chaos and the country might plunge into a civil...

FATF: Pakistan’s chances of exiting the gray list?

Islamabad has been struggling to get off the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) gray list since 2018. However, internal and external environments have not...

Pakistan’s politics: Art of manipulating societal sentiment for personal aggrandizement

The past few weeks, in Pakistani politics, have been a revealing experience. They have laid bare the hypocrisy of our political system, and the...

Op-Ed: Opposition running ‘Democracy (Pvt) Ltd’ in the name of Democracy

The veneer of democracy, within our ‘democratic’ parties, is gradually (but surely) being demolished by a new generation of hereditary leaders across the opposition...

Book review: Exploring the underemphasized reflections on BRI

Political scientists Alan Chong and Quang Min Pham bring with their edited volume, Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020),...

Op-Ed: How history belies Nawaz Sharif’s ‘progressive’ politics

Power without political struggle has always been disastrous. In the chequered political history of Pakistan, there have been only two genuine national political parties....

Why did the US resort to use of force in Vietnam?

One of the core reasons the US resorted to force in Vietnam and its neighboring countries, was because Washington's imperial designs for south-east Asia...