Bygones of the Lingering Kashmir Crisis By: Ali Anwar on August 5, 2021As the world is divided into more than 190 bigger or small nations, it is not surprising that border disputes exist among some of them. Nations have fought mighty and destructive wars on such disputes, resulting in millions of deaths, and obliteration of empires, but after the World War 2, most of such disputes were […]
Rejecting Trumpism: Revival of Religious Freedom at the Hands of Muslims By: Frank F Islam on August 5, 2021On July 30, President Joe Biden named aMuslim American Rashad Hussain as America’s next Ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom. The U.S. Senate confirmed thatHussain will become the sixthperson to serve in this position. As ambassador-at-large,the 41-year-old attorney will also head the Departmentof State’s Office of International Religious Freedomand serve as a non-voting member of the […]
Building a Community of Health for All By: Nong Rong on August 5, 2021The once-in-a-century COVID-19 pandemic is still wreaking havoc, posing a great threat to the lives and health of people all over the world, and a big challenge to global public health. In the face of this common crisis for mankind, the international community needs solidarity and cooperation more than ever. Regrettably, an unhealthy trend of […]
The Tribal and the Universal in Akbar Ahmed’s Mataloona By: Shadab Zeest Hashmi on August 4, 2021The “matal” or proverb in Mataloona: Pukhtun Proverbs and Mizh: A Frontier Classic (Oxford University Press, 2020) that I find the most delightfully emblematic of the value of a book such as this, is “(don’t be like) the frog that climbed a clod and said he saw Kabul.” The saying not only captures the dynamic […]
The Future of Afghanistan By: Umar Khalid Dar on August 4, 2021The people of Afghanistan have seen turmoil for the last many decades; either at the hands of foreign powers or by internal division and civil war. The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in the late 1970s; who started the war in which the Afghans of all creeds and cultures united to fight against the infidels. The Afghans […]
Neglect of the Disabled Children By: Malik Muhammad Ashraf on August 4, 2021My motivation to write on the subject matter stems from a letter written to me by a female assistant professor from Quetta, whose son is suffering from Cerebral Palsy, since his child-hood. Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affect a person’s ability to move and maintain balance and posture. The boy is now […]
UNSC Resolutions and Indian Backtrack By: Muhammad Zahid Rifat on August 4, 2021India has been defying the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions for decades by not holding a plebiscite in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, giving the Kashmiris their birth right of self-determination so as to decide their future themselves. On August 5, 2019, India’s Modi Government went many steps ahead resorting to mockery of the unimplemented […]
Making way Through the Stigma of Infertility By: Ramma Cheema on August 3, 2021Humans have an innate desire to have off-springs and the inability to do so impact their lives psychologically and socially. Women experience an emotion of loss and impairment of quality life. This crisis affects the couple as partners, as individual, as family and as social members. Psychologically, it fosters negative feelings of low self-esteem, loss […]
Who Lost the War in Afghanistan? By: Nawazish Ali on August 3, 2021USA, by no means, is the first superpower to get bogged down in chaos and violence in Afghanistan, dubbed as “the graveyard of empires” for good reason. A serious political debate that who has lost the war in Afghanistan will go on for a long time. There ought to be a far more serious effort […]
Deepening the South China Sea Crisis By: Munir Ahmed on August 3, 2021Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte has shocked the world by restoring the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with America last Friday, 30th July 2021. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana formally announced the decision in a joint press conference after their meeting at Camp Aguinaldo military base in Manila. The VFA is […]