The story of the sub-continent’s conflict and wars are a tragedy in bloodshed for over a century; an endless tale of betrayals, British mercantilism, geo-strategic intrigues, and elastic ethics. The existence of a live Line of Control has a nuisance to reach a Fire Breakpoint. The border dispute between India- Pakistan, and India-China has been […]
Middle East: Region of Immortal Wars
The Middle East has been the chrysalis of three of the world’s great religions. A profusion of prophetic absolutism has been the hallmark of a region suspended between a dream of its former glory and its contemporary inability to unify around common principles of domestic or international legitimacy. The Middle East has a vast and […]
Evolution of the New Global System
It was barely over a decade ago that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) exposed the brittle, crisis-ridden, and polarising edifices of economic, political and cultural power that structure our lives. Marx was read widely again; the Occupy Wall Street and Arab Spring movements captured the imagination of a new generation of young people and the […]
Religious nationalism — instability of sub-continent
In these times of rising geopolitical chaos, the need for mutual understanding among cultures has never been more urgent. Religious differences are seen as fuel for violence and warfare. The nexus of religion and nationalism has left a trail of violence and bloodshed in history. In the 16th and the early 17th centuries, religious nationalism […]
World order: Cemetery of humanity
Every age has its leitmotif, a set of beliefs that explains the universe that inspires or consoles the individual by explaining the multiplicity of events impinging on him. The current world order has been failed to provide a world that would not repeat the mistakes of the past, a world that delimited the violence of […]
Dwindled CII
Present social instability and political unrest in the Muslim world reminds us of the 17th and 18th century Europe when there was a long-standing battle between Catholics and Protestants which destroyed their socio-political fabric. Moreover, to get out of that socio-political chaos they separated religion from the state affairs. However, there is, theoretically speaking, a […]
Hindutva; ‘The Graveyard of Democracy’
Hindutva bared its fangs in its first mass display of power during the Babri Masjid’s demolition in 1992 but ever since Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, the Hindutva brigade has been given a shot in the arm. Many high-ranking officials in the Indian state machinery, starting from the prime minister, are Rashtriya Swayamsevak […]
Law on rampage
General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf has always been amidst controversies eversince he came to limelight after being appointed as COAS by PML-Nleadership despite the fact that he was the junior most in the seniority list of the probable candidates for the position. Controversies continued all along. Some of Musharraf’s actions were the removal of a corps […]