Dr Zia Ul Haque Shamsi

The renewed Cold War between the developed North and the deprived South is getting interesting with every passing day. The game changer is China’s active leadership as a plus factor. The showdown between Sun Tzu’s precepts of winning the war without fighting, and Machiavellian dicta of selfish power accumulation for security is getting narrower day […]

I do not understand the reason why people start thumping their desks whenever they see India at a center stage. One could see the same when India hosted G-20 Summit in New Delhi. India is a big country and home to world’s largest population. It is an important ally of the US, and has close […]

The world might be heading for a greater global crisis due to certain irrational acts of the stakeholders. The fight for the global supremacy between the US-led west and China-led south is getting intensified with every passing day. Perhaps, the time has come to see a showdown between philosophical teachings of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli. […]

An immediate attention to SHE (Sports, Health, and Education) can still help us recover from the morass Pakistan is facing. I have deliberately placed sports in the beginning to achieve two things: give importance to our female population by using the acronym SHE, and inculcate discipline among our people, through an active participation in sports. […]

Alliances, Groupings, and Blocs are part of international relations, norms, and practices. These groupings are usually formed between like-minded countries with minimum common interests. Generally, these groups are formed to forge political, economic, ideological, and strategic interests, besides socio-cultural, technological cooperation, arms control, etc. While regional alliances are a common phenomenon, extra-regional and cross-global groupings […]

It has been quite some time since our intelligentsia revisited the conceptual readings given to us by the colonial guards. What I have always read and learned is that there are three pillars of state: Executive, legislative, and Judiciary. Lately, we learned that media is the fourth pillar of any state. Unfortunately, we are just […]

Carl von Clausewitz, one of the most celebrated and read military strategists of all times, once opined that “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” Read this dictum of Clausewitz in conjunction with another prophetic dictum by Carl von Bismarck that, “Politics is Art of the Possible.” It becomes clear that wars were […]

The 100-year-old Master Diplomat from the United States still has concerns about the foreign policy of his state. This is nothing but the commitment to his people and sincerity of purpose for his state, and one must have respect for that. The Biden Administration must be extremely grateful for “Baba of Diplomacy” as I regard […]

It’s time now for the General Elections in Pakistan. The most damaging political instability that commenced with the change of guards on April 9, 2022, might be reaching the climax. The elections for the National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies are likely to be held in October-November 2023. In fact, as per the Constitution […]

Faith is, perhaps, the most private thing in the life of every human being, regardless of caste and creed. Every person has a God in his/her heart and soul and prays to the same God without having seen Him out of his/her belief. Every person believes that there is a Creator who has created this […]