I can’t breathe! on June 8, 2020The catalyst for the current worldwide public outburst within America and all over the world was the killing of yet another 46 years old black man George Floyd, whose last dying words, “I can’t breathe” has become a global slogan against racism. On May 25, 2020, he was handcuffed and pinned to the ground by […]
Now or Never Scenario for IOK on May 12, 2020The world is trying to grapple with the risks posed by COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of 2020 with partial and total lockdowns hither and thither. However, the international community remained oblivious to a complete shutdown and curfew in Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK) since August 2019, ever since the extremist BJP government in India deprived […]
Role of National Intelligence in War against Pandemics on April 9, 2020Forewarned is forearmed! The COVID-19 Pandemic seems to have taken the world by surprise despite reportedly early warning by USA National Centre for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) during January 2020 to its government that failed to react appropriately, which is being labeled as a policy failure by Trump’s government. On the other hand, China despite being […]
Realpolitik defines USA-India Relations on March 29, 2020“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”— Henry Kissinger The February 2020 POTUS Trump’s much hyped but low on substance visit to India underscored one cardinal point that USA-India relations were predominantly based on realpolitik than lofty principles that both countries otherwise claim to have stood for as well camouflaged tolerant democracies. The […]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: the iconic Muslim leader on March 17, 2020Recep Tayyip Erdo?an was born on 26 February 1954, 16 years after Ataturk’s death, in Kas?mpa?a, a rough Istanbul neighbourhood. The son of a ferry captain, Erdogan made pocket money by selling Turkish bagels when he wasn’t studying at a religious school. On his way home, as dusk fell in Istanbul, he would use the […]
More of Modi means less of India! on March 9, 2020The rise of far right extremists in national and international politics like Narender Modi, who is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation, has put hitherto secular India on fire that has spread from Indian Occupied Kashmir to every nook and corner […]
Prospective Afghanistan peace plan on March 3, 2020US officials and Taliban representatives have signed on Saturday 29th February 2020 an agreement after months of negotiations in Qatar’s capital Doha that is aimed at ending the United States’ longest war surpassing horrors of Vietnam, fought in Afghanistan since 2001. The said agreement, signed in Doha in the presence of leaders from Pakistan, Qatar, […]
Fine-tuning Pakistan’s national policies in great powers’ competition on February 29, 2020Well diversified and multi-polar foreign and economic policies are bound to serve Pakistan’s national and security interests more effectively than had been the case in the last seven decades In my last piece, “Murky American Politics Posing Global Foreign Policy Challenges”, I made an attempt to sketch out the constraints imposed on smaller countries in […]
Budding USA-India Nexus vis-à-vis Pakistan’s Choices on February 24, 2020The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it. ~ Henry Kissinger The advocates of budding USA-India nexus may have to conclude the same as was done by Kissinger sooner than later […]
Murky American politics posing global foreign policy dilemma on February 12, 2020The United States of America since end of Second World War has predominantly led the global politics following introduction of successful Capitalist System, which has been kept in place through IMF, World Bank, Regional Trade agreements, other International Financial Institutions and above all with firm hold in UN Security Council and most potent military Alliance […]