Is Pakistan’s political map of disputed Jammu and Kashmir really an “absurdity”?
India used all expletives in its not-so-diplomatic lexicon to point out that revision of Pakistan's political map was an “absurdity”. It does not appear...
365 Days of Kashmir in Lockdown
A woman in Kashmir took a sigh of relief as she slowly pierced the knife inside her belly and saved her unborn child from...
Violence Against Kashmiri Women
August 5 was celebrated all over the world, including Pakistan, as 'Kashmir Exploitation Day' (یوم استحصال). On the same day last year, India declared...
Change of Guards in the Health Sector: Challenges and Options
Health and nutrition have been key agenda points of the PTI manifesto ever since PTI started parliamentary politics. The Prime Minter in his victory...
Is Pakistan moving forward or backwards?
The opposition parties are planning to organise an All Parties Conference (APC) after Eid-ul-Azha to plan the way forward. Those who have taken the...
Time for Indo-Pakistan Talks: Rejoinder to Praveen Swami
Praveen Swami in his apparently innocent and well-meaning article titled ‘The Time might have come for India and Pakistan to talk’ has made designed...
Who is responsible for India’s democratic downfall?
Democracy is in decline across the world. Freedom House reported that democracy around the world was ‘under assault and in retreat around the globe’. Michael J....
Kashmir: India’s Bleeding Wound
Kashmir is the real theatre of unspeakable violence and moral corrosion that can spin us into violence and nuclear war at any moment. To prevent...
Another Cold War at the Gates: A Strategic Calculus for National Security of Pakistan
Doklaam and Ladakh incidents are nothing less than a chapter break in the strategic landscape between India and China. They are a fundamental redefinition...
Assessing the Unjust Kashmir Annexation on its Anniversary
Today is the first anniversary of India’s single-handed introduction of the way they think the Kashmir problem would be solved. On 5 August 2019,...
5 August 2019: A Defining Moment In Indo-Sino Relations
Most observers at the time regarded India's de-facto annexation of Jammu & Kashmir on 5 August 2019 as being a defining moment for either...
Erdogan’s Moment of Glory: Reinventing Turkey’s Islamic Past
Friday, July 24, 2020, would be long remembered in Turkey. On this day the iconic Hagia Sophia was opened for Friday prayers after a...