Khurshid Kamal Aziz, a renowned historian, in his widely discussed book The Murder of History: A Critique of History Textbooks Used in Pakistan, generated a debate over the factual accuracy of the date of the Lahore Resolution’s twenty seventh annual session of the All India Muslim League. The session commenced on 22 March, during which […]
Pakistan’s Two-Nation Paradox
The reference to the “Two-Nation Theory” in a recent speech delivered by the Field Marshal General Syed Asim Munir has reignited debate on the subject. Nearly eight decades after the creation of Pakistan, the nation has yet to transcend the Two-Nation Theory, which continues to serve as a recurring theme, and a source of controversy […]
Pakistan 2.0: A Nation Reborn
Nations evolve through different phases, often passing through periods of intense conflict, internal division, political instability, economic crisis even collapse. There are moments in a nation’s life when it faces a serious risk of breaking apart such as China’s Warring States Period (475-221 BCE) and, later in modern history, the China’s Century of Humiliation (1839-1949). […]
Forces of fear
Laying the foundation of the first ever Hindu Temple in Islamabad, the political capital of Pakistan has yet again sparked a debate which soon became the subject to the violent polemic dividing a society on traditional faultiness following traditionalistsvociferously antagonizing the construction of the first Hindu place of worship in Islamabad and the progressive leaning […]
Pakistan: Between Modern and Medieval Mindset
The real problem in Pakistan is not the looming dangers of pandemics but the pervasive mindset infected largely with the paranoid Schizophrenia. A chronic mental disorder, far removed to ever have lived with reality with no signs of willingness to embrace the peculiarities of the real-world, has developed as a consequence of multiple contradictions that […]
The Russia-Pakistan perception paradigm
The tales of Russia and Pakistan relations and how the perception paradigm evolved, over time, originates when the twins named, India and Pakistan, emerged in 1947 from the womb of a frail and sickly British imperialism. Despite sharing the common womb of the mother, two were poles apart in nature. The former brother, namely India, […]
Russia-Pakistan: Perception Paradigm
The tails of Russia and Pakistan relations and how the perception paradigm evolved over the course of time originates when the twins named India and Pakistan emerged in 1947 from the womb of a frail and sickly British imperialism. Despite sharing the common womb of the mother, two were poles apart in nature. The former […]
The Self Destruction of Secular India
Secular India was the dream project once every moderate and progressive Pakistani envies of its success on the eastern neighborhood of its border. The idea of secular India more often reverberates in every nook and cranny of Pakistan’s polity from parliamentary debates to the vendor-wala talks always tend to seek the guiding formula for a […]
BRI: Overconfidence or Practical Embodiment?
China’s growing economic muscle helped chalk out the global vision of build-out infrastructure around the world officially spelled asthe Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road, referred to as One Belt, One Road (OBOR).The idea of Silk Roadcarries many dimensions but economics is the key driving force, primarily to improve the connectivitythrough Chinese massive […]
Making the case of war
Since the early days of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has had unpleasant views about Iran. The general atmosphere has become precarious as of late. Political fragilities are getting complicated as the geopolitical outlook seems more intricate in the war-racked Middle East. The hawkish warmongers started prevailing ever-stronger in the Persian Gulf as US President […]