Nauman Sadiq

It’s an incontrovertible fact that the British colonisers built roads and railways in India, they established missionary schools, colleges and universities, they enforced the English common law, and the goal of exploiting natural resources and four hundred million strong Indian manpower at the time of independence in 1947. They also traded raw materials for pennies […]

During the previous week, a report by Conflict Armament Research (CAR) on the Islamic State’s (IS) weapons found in Iraq and Syria has been making rounds on the media. Before the story was picked up by the mainstream media, it was first published on the news website known as Wiredin early December. Wired has a […]

Although secularism, pluralism and multiculturalism are the accepted social axioms of the modern worldview, but a demand for separate nationhood on the basis of ethno-linguistic identity is accepted in the Western discourse; and it cannot simply be dismissed on the premise that since pluralism and multiculturalism are the accepted principles. , As a result, therefore […]

On a national level, there are two classes in any given society: the bourgeois and the proletariat, or the peasantry in the rural agrarian economies. The bourgeois are generally privileged and educated people, while the peasantry is uncivilised and illiterate. But who do the socialists, who tend to look at social issues from structural angle, […]

On the campaign trail, in his speeches and as well as on TV debates with other presidential contenders, Donald Trump repeatedly mentioned that he has a ‘secret plan’ for defeating the Islamic State (IS) without elaborating on what the plan is. However, to the careful observers of the US-led war against the IS in Iraq […]

In Pakistan, there are three distinct categories of militants: Afghanistan-focused Pashtun militants, Kashmir-focused Punjabi militants and foreign terrorists including the Arab militants of al-Qaeda, the Uzbek insurgents of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and the Uighur rebels of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). The foreign, transnational terrorists number only in a few hundreds and […]

In order to understand the hype surrounding the phenomena of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, we need to understand the prevailing global economic order and its prognosis. What the pragmatic economists have forecasted about free market capitalism has turned out to be true; whether we like it or not. A kind of global economic entropy has […]

Reportedly 80,000 US troops have currently been deployed in Europe out of 275,000 total US troops stationed all over the world, including 50,000 in Germany, 15,000 in Italy and 8,000 in the UK. By comparison, the number of US troops stationed in Afghanistan is only 14,000 which is regarded as an occupied country. Thus, Europe […]