Indian exclusionism towards Muslims and minorities on October 22, 2020Indian secularism has been the quintessence of Indian Constitution, yet the denunciation of minorities in India has prompted doubts regarding democratic values in India. In fact, it is no more Gandhi and Nehru’s India. India has crumbled quickly with the Bahartiya Janata Party (BJP)’s coming into power under Narendra Modi’s administration. Albeit to significant exclusion […]
Pakistan and Azerbaijan: common interests and mutual respect on March 4, 2020A local online newspaper of Azerbaijan published an article revealing “secret contact” between the ministry of foreign affairs of Pakistan and Armenia on January 10, 2020. It also mentioned a visit of a Pakistani team to Yerevan, Armenia in March 2019. The gist of the article is that Pakistan wants to establish diplomatic relations and […]
Fallout of Citizenship Amendment Act on India & Pakistan on February 28, 2020The controversial Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 is a sign of extremist propensities of the current Indian government. Extremist proportions of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the quest for Hindutva are driving India into a Hindu Rashtra, where minorities-especially Muslims, are confronting the brunt of the abuse. People all over India are protesting […]
Belligerence begets more belligerence on February 23, 2019The famous phrase “toughness begets greater toughness”, as quoted by Martin Luther King, expounds the shifting dynamics of struggle of the Kashmiri people for their independence. People in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) are subject to gross human rights violations and they have been witnessing an increase in Indian aggression since the start of the illegal […]
Apprising IPCC climate warnings on October 22, 2018As the Unite Nations Secretary General (UNSG) recapped world leaders a month ago, “We confront an existential danger. Environmental change is moving quicker than we are…. If we don’t change course by 2020, we chance overlooking the main issue where we can stay away from runaway environmental change, with grievous outcomes…” A special report by […]
Litigating SDG 13 on September 2, 2018Threats against the sustainable development of climate change are hard to overstate. Natural resources are depleting, threatening the survival of millions. Droughts, floods, wildfires and super-storms have become the order of the day. Climate change is also going to exacerbate vector-borne diseases. In 2015, the government agreed to take urgent action to combat climate change […]
Convoluted Afghan peace process on August 21, 2018Ronald Reagan once said, “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle the conflict by peaceful means”. The Afghanistan peace process, in a similar manner, has failed to offer an olive branch to the Taliban. The Afghan Taliban’s recent assault on Ghazni city has added fuel to the fire to the […]