Saudi Arabia’s New Friends and Quest to Balance Old Enemies

“A drop of oil is worth a drop of blood of our soldiers”, said the French Statesman Georges Clémenceau. This signifies the importance of...

Palestine ranks high in Arab public opinion

Rare polling of public Arab opinion in Saudi suggests that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be more sensitive to domestic public opinion on foreign...

Rediscovering Sain Mirchu of Rawalpindi

Sain Mirchu was a wandering Dervish of Rawalpindi in the fifties and early sixties. He operated around Bagh Sardaran and Banni area of the...

Biden-Harris ticket: Most diverse ticket in American history?

I am having a huge political debate with a Pakistani American who wants to vote for Trump because he believes that Joe Biden will...

Parasitic Hinduvta Ideology, Tearing Secular India Apart

History plays a major role in the promotion of nationalism and patriotism. However, if one’s history shakes the foundation on which its nationalism sustains,...

A rare defeat at the UN reflects a faltering American empire

In a sign of changing times, the United States suffered a humiliating defeat at the UN Security Council. The UNSC rejected a US resolution...

In the memory of Hussain-Ibn-Ali (A.S.)

History is an unforgiving court. It sits in judgment over god-kings and sprawling empires that had conquered the known world of their time. And...

How Iran’s democratic security is linked with CPEC-plus

First of all, how do you define Hybrid Wars? The term Hybrid Wars generally refers to unconventional warfare, and can be divided into psychological and...

Mumtaz Bola; the exemplary record keeper

After the partition of the Subcontinent on August 14, 1947, while there was an inflow of refugees, there was also a mass exodus of...

A Kashmiri family’s struggle from Baramulla to Ludhiana to Lahore

My great grandfather migrated from a small village called 'Reshi Wund' located in tehsil and district Baramulla in the year 1890. The migration was...

Problems with remote learning: A dire need to reopen institutes

It is going to be almost 6 months since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in Pakistan which started back at the end of...

Let Us Talk About Climate Change, Shall We?

Destruction is not coming, but we are bringing it. Many of the leading Astrophysicists such as Neil DeGrasses Tyson say that we only understand...
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