Abdul Hadi Mayar

Everything in this pious country has become so impious that one cannot expect anything to be what it ought to be according to its strictest definition – neither democracy nor parliament or legislation. Last month, the government called a joint sitting of the parliament to pass several bills. One of them was regarding electoral reforms. […]

If statehood is the sum total of disciplined institutions functioning in a vibrant civil society based on general will, the ship of Pakistan has since long run aground. In Pakistan, the sacred name of religion has always been misused for usurpation of state resources and tyrannizing of people with such impunity that today, b even […]

As the post-Cold War global mistrust and lack of mutual collaboration refuse to give way, the time-bomb of global warming continues to tick on the future of humanity, like many other international challenges. This lack of willingness to work in harmony was well-demonstrated at the just concluded two-week 26th UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, at […]

The Eurasian supercontinent is so diverse in multiple respects that it can truly become a political and economic hub of the world by networking its business routes. The only cost that the world and regional powers have to pay for such a dividend is to shun the hostile bloc politics and switch to the healthy […]

The agreement that the government reached with Tehreek-e-Lubbaik Pakistan last week was also possible a few months earlier when the group had staged a protest sit-in at Faizabad. But it tricked to shoot two birds–TLP and the parliamentary opposition–with a single stone. Rather than conceding to or outrightly rejecting TLP’s demand for expulsion of the […]

Addressing the G-20 extraordinary summit on Afghanistan earlier this month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed a four-way engagement with Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Attending the summit on behalf of President Xi Jinping, Wang Yi urged the need for continuing humanitarian support to the Afghan people. He said humanitarian assistance, corona vaccines and medical supplies […]

As the US and its Asia-Pacific allies in Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) are engaging China in East and South China seas, they are also maneuvering to turn Taiwan into an ‘Achilles heel’ for Beijing. Staking their hypothesis on Washington’s embarrassing retreat from Afghanistan, Western analysts predicted a showdown between the US and China in Taiwan. […]

A clever thing the United States did post the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan was to outrightly take its hands off the country – except for humanitarian considerations. Doing so, Washington, on the one hand, deprived its regional rivals of an enemy to struggle against, and, on the other, rendered Afghanistan a headache for […]

In his first-ever decree issued after the induction of the Taliban’s government in Kabul in mid-August, Mulla Hibatullah Akhund, the Ameerul Momineen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), ordered the formation of a three-member commission to look into Pakistan’s issue with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The commission, after days of deliberation, asked Pakistan to hold […]

After the dismantling of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US was left in a state of ideological bewilderment: clueless about how to enforce its New World Order. Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” recipe didn’t work because while China was growingly emerging on the world scene as an economic power, the Islamic militancy, emboldened […]