Aliya Anjum

In the current era, anti-semitism is not as much about the personal, as it is about the political. Anti-semitism today is mainly owed to the actions of the Zionist Israeli state, and hatred is hence sometimes directed at the Jewish people in the US. It is vital to understand that not every Jewish person is […]

India was never in the American sphere: it was first in the Soviet and then in the Russian camp. In the early 2000’s the US began to nurture India as a counterweight to China. In the last two decades, India-US ties and mutual trade have risen exponentially. Due to its economic rise, India’s politics, religions […]

The Russia-Ukraine war, which started on February 24, 2022, changed the world in ways more than one. Some major fallouts of the ongoing war are the increased importance of India in the global community; a changing global financial order; global inflation due to disturbance in the global energy and food supply chains; and new strategic […]

Direct European colonial rule ended in the twentieth century. However, indirect colonization is now the order of the day. The primary instrument of indirect colonization is finance and trade. The world is now controlled by Western nations through the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization and the Western countries own agreements and […]

These days the country is swept by a storm where Pakistanis are demanding freedom, repeating the slogan of the jailed PTI chief. Manzoor Pashteen of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chanted anti-state slogans while addressing a rally in Islamabad. He was surprisingly joined by Eman Mazari who is not an ethnic Pashtun. This strange union […]

The Barbie movie was a delight to watch at the movie theatre. Vicariously reliving the Barbie world, brought back pleasant memories of my childhood days. That Barbie was special, is proven by the fact that I have carefully preserved my Barbie world to this day. I was not alone in this sentiment, as proven by […]

A few years ago, Pakistan pinned its hopes on one man to change its destiny and that man is now languishing in jail – ironically on petty theft charges. In my June 2, 2022 op-ed column I had written: “IK’s main goal is to eliminate all political rivals to monopolise the Pakistani political landscape. A […]

The United States of America and Pakistan seem to be nations very unlike each other, yet if we look closely then they have a lot in common. One such commonality is the Capitol Insurrection in the US on January 6, 2021, and the mob attacks on the General Headquarters of the Pakistan Army on May […]

I often turn to social media if I have to gauge public opinion or listen to voices that shape public opinion. Pakistani social media leaves me horrified, to say the least. The dominant theme that runs across Pakistani social media is domestic politics or rather conjecture, the blame game and conspiracy theories surrounding domestic politics. […]

A young man burned the Holy Quran under the aegis of the Swedish authorities. This time round, the global ummah did not respond as violently and militantly as it had in the past. Pakistan called for action by the United Nations and a meeting was hence convened. There were peaceful demonstrations in Pakistan and abroad, […]