Kashmir: A way forward

Iltija Mufti daughter of former Chief Minister of J&K Mehbooba Mufti appeared on a NDTV program (https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/the-big-fight/omar-abdullah-mehbooba-mufti-slapped-with-psa-violation-of-democracy-or-essential-for-normalcy-540116?livevideo-top-shows ) where she tried to give an...

Public hanging: Certainty not the severity of punishment matters

Resolution passed by National Assembly on Friday, calling for the public hanging of convicted child killers and rapists, has created quite a stir. The...

Dissection of the idea of “Public Executions” and “Dignity”

Having seen the continuous surge in the shocking, ghastly, and dreadful cases of child abuse in Pakistan, the Members of the National Assembly left...

US uneasy as Iraq gets new prime minister

In happier times, Washington and Tehran might well have zeroed in on Mohammed Tawfik Allawi as their consensus candidate for the post of Iraq’s...

Russia strongly rejects Turkish position on Syria

The Russian reaction to Turkey’s latest military moves in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib has appeared in the form of a lengthy interview...

Is “neutrality” an option for Pakistan’s foreign and security policy?

The speeding process of globalization and the visible shift of economic and political momentum towards (Eur)Asia because of China and its BRI project necessitates...

Humanity in the face of an ecological apocalypse

Sir Francis Bacon was a staunch critic of scientific method development but being a philosophical-scientific giant, atheists are gung-ho to recruit him as a...

Across the River Lives the Family & the Enemy: Tale of a Soldier

The soldier was looking through his bunker across the river. Usually, it was a fixed gaze on the enemy soldiers but that day was...

Approaching Apocalypse under watch of “Divider-in-Chief” of India

The first Hindutva genocide of Muslims took place in 2002. Since then there is occasional splurt in violence. What happened under Governor Jagmohan in...

Pakistan Sailing in Choppy Waters

After 9/11, the US in league with NATO, Israel and India initiated global war on terror under the pretext of making the world safe,...

Trump’s Middle East plan envisages only one state

The long-awaited US plan for resolving the intractable conflict between Palestine and Palestine was announced earlier this week, but the timing of the announcement...

Modi, Trump, Netanyahu: A new world order guided by might is right

Opinion | The real issue with US President Donald J. Trump’s Deal of the Century Israeli-Palestinian peace plan is not whether it stands a chance...