Do male journalists in Pakistan face online abuse, harassment?

For the past fifteen days, female journalists and anchorpersons in Pakistan have aggressively and vehemently taken up the issue of online trolling, abuse, and...

Graduating in a pandemic

Bewilderment, perplexity and confusion envelop the class of 2020 as it graduates amid the pandemic. Struck by Covid-19; neither they walked on the graduation...

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...