The Occident’s unfair censure of China on January 11, 2020China’s meteoric economic rise has been viewed with awe and envy by the West. Instead of competing with its prudent pecuniary progress, following the “Tall Poppy Syndrome,” the West finds it opportune to drown Chinese fiscal prowess in a deluge of false accusations. China’s soft underbelly has been the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which was […]
A very expencive cup of tea on January 4, 202027 February will go down as a Red-Letter Day in the history of Pakistan and its air force. On 14 February 2019, a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethpora in the Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The attack resulted […]
Impact of BJP losing Jharkhand elections on January 2, 2020Amidst massive anti-government protests against a contentious new citizenship law Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party BJP has lost a key state legislature election. The polls at Jharkhand were held amid protests calling for the revocation of the controversial citizenship law, which critics say is the latest effort by Modi’s government to marginalize […]
21st Century’s gory second decade concludes on December 27, 2019The second decade of the Twenty First Century has finally concluded. For Pakistan it brought numerous challenges, trials and tribulations, many of which continue. On January 27, 2011, Raymond Allen Davis, a former United States Army soldier, private security firm Black Water employee, and contractor with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), killed two reportedly armed […]
Modi’s CAA vindicates Jinnah’s 2 Nation Theory on December 22, 2019Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has defied its own Constitution and Secular status by approving the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which gives Indian citizenship to immigrants from three neighboring countries-but not if they are Muslim. Hundreds of people joined a hunger strike, while scores have been killed in protests all over India. Political […]
Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019 — a harsh step on December 13, 2019The US House of Representatives recently passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019. It is a harsh piece of legislation, which deliberately smears the human rights condition in Xinjiang, slanders China’s efforts in de-radicalization and counter-terrorism and viciously attacks the Chinese government’s Xinjiang policy. Another country’s ratification of such a resolution seriously violates […]
Agni III’s embarrassing failure on December 5, 2019The Indian military’s Agni-III ballistic missile failed its maiden night test launch and crashed into the sea shortly after launch, reported Indian media. The missile plunged into the sea after the first-stage separation. It was launched from Abdul Kalam Island off India’s Odisha coast. The Agni-III ballistic missile is capable of hauling conventional and nuclear […]
Sri Lanka’s new President, India & China on December 1, 2019Last week, Sri Lankans voted for a new president after a year of political upheavals and deadly terrorist attacks. Reposing confidence in Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a former defense chief known for his hard-edge leadership, apparently the Sri Lankan majority voted for security in these turbulent times. Readers may recall that nearly a decade ago, Mr. Rajapaksa […]
Rape as a weapon in IOK on November 23, 2019All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) has recently released a consolidated report on the atrocities carried out by security forces in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). According to the report, Indian forces in their anti-freedom operation, massacred 95,238 Kashmiris, including 7,120 in custody, since January 1989. An alarming statistic in the report is that the troops molested […]
Some legalities of the JUI (F) Dharna on November 16, 2019The JUI (F) Dharna (sit-in), which has finally dispersed, has raised more questions than providing solutions. Whereas it is the legal right of any entity to protest peacefully, there are specific norms that are observed by civilized societies. Pakistan has had its fair share of protests, some violent and some not so violent. The previous […]