Ikram Sehgal

This question was asked even before Donald Trump was elected President of the US in 2016 andbegun acting unconventionally throughout his term of office.  With no change of personality or character traits, habituallyaggressive and shamelessly narcisstic,Trump flouted rules and boundaries at will, what he had been doing throughout his life.Many of his distractors have even […]

The year 2020 demanded the utmost of all individuals locally and governments globally.  In that perspective Pakistan has not done badly, much better than neighbouring countries including India. With a population in daily wagers Imran Khan recognised thatthe hard-lockdown policies followed by other countries would be fatal,people would die of hunger instead of corona. Most […]

Four years ago Trump was an outsider, nobody believed he would get enough votes to win. Hillary Clinton seemed a sure winner being a member of the inner circle of US democracy, not really taken as a challenge Trump was allowed to run undisturbed without the detailed scrutiny every candidate for high office gets. Touching […]

A project of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) Network Agreement was signed on 10 November 2006, by seventeen Asian nations to build a transcontinental railway network between Europe and Pacific ports in China. Planned to cater for enormous increase in international trade between […]

Fifty years should be a sufficiently long time to go beyond the recriminations, hurt and feeling of revenge that has been part of our history. Fuelled by discrimination of the worst kind grievous mistakes were made, culminating in the violence of 1971. While both countries have their problems with history writing, it is time to […]

The interim time between the US Presidential elections on Nov. 3 rd and the inauguration of the new US President on Jan 20, 2021 is a period of uncertainty even during normal times. His lawsuits being thrown out even by judges he has appointed, the number of States that Trump thinks he lost because of […]

Despite the ongoing global economic crisis being aggravated by the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, this year has brought outstanding results for the KHORGOS “dry port” on the border between Kazakhstan and China, which links China with Central Asia, Russia and Europe. On October 6, 2020 when after less than five years of its opening, […]

When it broke earlier this year the ongoing pandemic was thought to stall the ongoing changes in global relations. Some people were hoping that the China’s march towards a leading role in international economy and politics as well as the newly evolving alliance between Russia and China would not be sustainable. But reality was different, […]

On his way home from work on a Friday afternoon in a quiet suburban town north-west of Paris an attacker, later identified as an 18-year-old of Chechen origin, who came to France as a refugee, cornered Samuel Paty, a middle-school history and civics teacher on the street, and stabbed him repeatedly. Witnesses say the killer […]

Ten days before the Elections in 2016 Hilary Clinton was leading most election forecasts, for all practical purposesTrump had already lost. Howevera forecast is a forecast only and nothing more; an election is only decided on Election Day, everyonecan make up or change his/her mind right in front of the ballot box.One of my best […]