Dr Ejaz Hussain

In a 5-0 order, the larger bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan judged the elected prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, to have lacked truthfulness and honesty, and thus disqualified him from the office. Having been resembled with the Godfather by the judges to have been grilled by the JIT members, the fate of […]

The Panama case reached its final phase after the submission of the ten-volume report by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT). It seems our entire society, political parties and the media have become partisans. From the PPP to the PTI, the opposition has not only considered the JIT report to be the ultimate truth but has […]

Important events took place in local and foreign politics in Pakistan. One the one hand, the Panama Papers and the JIT kept the politically minded glued to the TV screen, while on the other, the Chinese foreign minister’s visit and later the US senators’ trip to Pakistan raised many eyebrows and questions. But perhaps the […]

The masses, on average, are conceptually obscure on the origination, evolution, meaning and utility of democracy in the post-colonial states from Africa to Asia. There are multiple factors and forces at play behind such ambiguity. The authoritarian state structure, for instance, in the post-colonial state of Pakistan, dominated popular aspirations for freedom, justice and democracy […]

  The kingdom of Saudi Arabia once again finds itself in the limelight for several reasons. Over the past couple of years, austerity measures invoked by former deputy crown prince Mohammad bin Salman shocked both the global media and millions of domestic and foreign workers within Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, the Roya (vision) […]

China-Pakistan Relations: A Historical AnalysisAuthor: Ghulam AliPublishers: Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2017 Pgs: 263   China-Pakistan relations are colloquially referred to as “higher than mountains, sweeter than honey and deeper than ocean”. The current and the previous governments have employed jargon excessively to catch public imagination as far as Islamabad’s relations with Beijing are concerned. Academically, […]

Cricket is indubitably the passion of Pakistanis. Regardless of creed and class denomination, this sport is equally popular across the country. Even, kids, women and the elderly love to watch, if not play, it especially when there is an encounter between archrival India and Pakistan. The recent match between these teams in the Champion Trophy, […]

The other day Moeed Yusuf argued in Dawn that it is time Pakistan conveyed its strategic concerns to the US in a frank manner. The crux of his argument, which is realistic in nature, is the US past and present administration lacks trust in the security establishment of Pakistan due to the latter’s preoccupation with […]

On May 28, almost all TV channels and major newspapers of the country carried a news flash that read, “religious scholars of all schools of thought declared that extremism and terrorism, in the name of Islam, is haram (forbidden) and the state of Pakistan has jurisdiction over Qital (warfare)”. The excerpt was indeed part of […]

Foreign policy analysis has emerged as a sub-discipline within International Relations, where scholars of the field conduct theory-guided empirical analysis of the subject at different levels, ie state, group, individual. The core area of focus and analysis is human behaviour which probably is the most difficult and challenging entity on account of its oscillatory characteristics. […]