Present limitations to India’s nuclear triad on February 28, 2020In November 2018, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi proudly announced that India’s nuclear triad was complete after the INS Arihant, India’s first nuclear-powered submarine, successfully completed its deterrence patrol. Although it was considered a significant milestone in India’s nuclear capability, the submarine does not considerably add up to India’s second-strike capabilities. There are still various […]
The transitive verb state on February 14, 2019The state of Pakistan is a dystopian transformation from a noun to a verb. Ostensibly formed to protect the rights of people purportedly subsumed under the colonial and later Congress rule, the state as a noun was sloughed off to adopt the transitive verb. Citizens of the newly formed transitive verb state were required to […]
The Pashteen phenomenon on April 17, 2018The frail looking 26-year-old is huddled in a chair surrounded by sturdy, tough looking Pakhtuns. Head bowed under the eponymous Pashteen cap, arms folded across chest, he is in deep thought till his name is announced from the rostrum. Not a single muscle forsakes his imperturbability. Not even when the crowd bellows his name to […]
Conceptually engineered on February 10, 2018On October 16, 2017, Pakistan became one of 15 states elected by the UN General Assembly to serve as members of the UN Human Rights Council, from January 2018 to December 2020. In its election pledges, Pakistan said that it is ‘firmly resolved to uphold, promote and safeguard universal human rights and fundamental freedoms for […]
The indomitable struggle on December 3, 2017The house of the Achakzais in Quetta resounded with the deafening sound of an explosion, bringing an end to the physical mortality of Khan Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai. He would later be buried beneath layers of mud, consummating the last rites of a body. The assassination of Khan Abdul Samad Khan on 2 December, 1973 […]