Actual defence budget of ‘deceptive’ India
India’s Union Budget for the financial year 2020-21 envisages a total outlay of Rs. 30,42,230 crore. Out of this, 3,37,553 crore has been allocated...
Pakistani Religious Zealots’ obsession with Ahmadis: a non-issue in 2020
If Jacqueline Kennedy was travelling on Pakistan International Airlines today, as she did in 1962, she most certainly would not have ended her trip...
First time in history: Permission of public azan in Canadian city sparks debate
Mississauga, a name most in Pakistan are probably familiar with, is currently embroiled in a steaming debate over the city administration’s decision to allow...
US religious freedom report; future of Muslims in India
On 28th April, the USCIRF (US Commission on International Religious Freedom) annual report on religious freedom was released. Interestingly, despite India’s close ties with the...
NRO style deal for Malik Riaz to stimulate economy
Millions of people have lost their jobs and more will still lose, the pandemic is not only taking lives but aggravating the economic crisis....
Pakistan’s bureaucracy needs overhaul
On August 14,1973 Pakistan attained the status of a constitutional democracy. It should have been the end of the colonial era based on the...
Doctors for total lockdown ignoring repercussions
Should medical doctors be solely entrusted to determine the higher policy of the state on how to defeat the coronavirus pandemic? Medical doctors risk...
‘Only the danda can fix this nation’
Covid-19 has turned the collective gaze of society inwards in more ways than one. Families in the subcontinent and world over have begun to...
The day Hitler lost the Second World War
Three-quarters of a century ago the Third Reich lay in ruins, its ruler Adolf Hitler dead, having shot himself in the right temple with...
18th amendment debate is irrelevant at this time!
Constitutionally, Pakistan is a federal state, but its political culture is more akin to a unitary state. This paradox between the political system and...
Ensuring security of Gulf in post-pandemic world
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout may rewrite the Gulf security as well as the political and economic map of the Middle East....
Riots in India: History, causes & trends
Recent Delhi violence left 36 persons dead. In the past also, India witnessed riots. By studying them we could identify a pattern, if any....