Qamar Cheema

Rohingya are an ethnic group in Myanmar who have been stripped off their citizenship by a military government in 1982 when a law was passed revoking their right to travel, marry and acquire land. Out of 134 ethnic groups only the Rohingya have been denied citizenship in Myanmar. In 2014, they were excluded from the […]

The US may try to use sanctions against Pakistan however there is no guarantee of their success. China and Russia have already slammed Trump’s South Asia policy and declared that the world needs to recognises Pakistan’s efforts and sacrifices in the war against terror   Pakistan and US have always enjoyed a transactional relationship but […]

Hafiz Saeed, world renowned for his position on Kashmir and India, had openly helped the state in implementing its Kashmir policy through his jihadi infrastructure. But since the state reversed its Kashmir policy since the Musharraf era, the groups which worked for state faced international sanctions and rebuke. Hafiz Saeed’s group also changed its name […]

United States is currently being run by unpredictable and confused leadership, which is slow in decision making and good at firing its own staff. Since January 20 when President Trump took oath, he had to face several challenges and has mostly been finding ways to legitimise his controversial decisions. He remained occupied in domestic challenges […]

Countries only move forward with strong institutional architecture which provide justice and fair play to common man as per the social contract which state and its masses have. Since Pakistan got independence, there have been weak, dysfunctional and struggling institutions. If we didn’t have an institutional crisis in Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif might have gone home […]

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) is known as hierarchical Islamic party and it is not just a political party but kind of a religious community which asks its supporters to obey the sovereign rules of Allah.  It is the only Islamic party of Pakistan which has programmatic objectives that came directly from Syed Maududi – the man who […]

In this age of complex interdependence, the world is facing power transition and power diffusion. Erosion of power, new patterns of governance, cross cutting communities and unchecked flow of information are some factors that are changing the nature of power. States are the dominant actors in the whole saga, but the stage seems to be […]

Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam Fazlur Rehman (JUI-F) is an organic party and is considered pragmatic as it believes in electoral politics and electoral institutions for gaining power and instrumental sing religion for the purpose. Since many believe that democracy is a liberal and secular project but parties like JUI-F have toned down this idea by inculcating religo-cultural […]