New trends and policy challenges in EUon June 18, 2019The year, 2019 remains crucial for European Union affairs. The heads of souther European states, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta gathered in Malta on June 14 in Valletta to have a united front on key economic and political issues before next week's European Council meeting. On June 20-21, the EU Council meeting is going to be held in Brussels in order to review the new … [Read more...] about New trends and policy challenges in EU
WWII: Russia’s epic role in Nazis’ defeaton June 12, 2019Recently, the D-Day was celebrated in Normandy (France) on June 6 where allies' leaders were gathered to remember the sacrifices rendered by the allied forces during WWII. Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited to attend the grand event.Sergey Lavrov, Russian FMsaid the expansive events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France were painting a false picture … [Read more...] about WWII: Russia’s epic role in Nazis’ defeat
FATF, Int’l law & Pakistan? (Part-III)on June 4, 2019The prime objectives of the FATF are: to set standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures for combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system. Hence, the FATF is a policy-making body which works to generate the necessary political will to bring about national legislative … [Read more...] about FATF, Int’l law & Pakistan? (Part-III)
Pakistan’s dependence on the IMF — Part-IIon June 2, 2019Our policy irony is that despite our wilful denial of not depending on the IMF support, we are again, and again, and again trapped in this negative western capitalist trajectory support system. Very shortly after the historic failure of Bretton Woods System of Fixed Exchange Rates in August 1971, Pakistan de-linked PKR from GBP and pegged it de jure with USD at the same parity of PKR 4.7697/USD to … [Read more...] about Pakistan’s dependence on the IMF — Part-II
IMF & WB: Int’l law & geopolitics? – Part-Ion May 29, 2019Needless to say, the creation of the Bretton Woods institutions under the UN's system in the Post War II order seems to have espoused the very notion of power politics through which the so-called financial or economic umbrella-- of the IMF and the World Bank-has been largely meant to serve the political agenda of the powerful nations via synergies of economic loans and other packages of assistance … [Read more...] about IMF & WB: Int’l law & geopolitics? – Part-I
Trump’s haunted ‘deal of the century’? Part-IIIon May 22, 2019It goes without saying that one of the leading obstacles to any peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is Tel Aviv's policy of political, legal, and cultural discrimination towards the Palestinians. Israel can't deny, it is an apartheid state that is bluntly violating the fundamentals of HR norms protected in the UN's Charter. There is an irrefutable evidence that suggests the system … [Read more...] about Trump’s haunted ‘deal of the century’? Part-III
Trump’s haunted deal of the century? Part-IIon May 19, 2019The so called New Palestine would merely be the embodiment based on a series of discrete cantons, or Bantustans-- surrounded by a sea of Israeli settlements, now to be declared part of Israel. As for the security, the New Palestine would be void of any army, just a lightly armed police force. It would be able to act only as a series of disconnected municipalities. And yet ironically, the … [Read more...] about Trump’s haunted deal of the century? Part-II
Trump’s haunted ‘deal of the century’? Part – Ion May 18, 2019Apparently, much is being trumpeted by the Trump administration to strike a deal that addresses the core issue of decades' old conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis, yet a fair investigation into the so-called deal of the century reveals that it is all about nothing but a feigning peace plan devised via a haunted conflict resolution. The plan is a cleverly designed blueprint advocating both … [Read more...] about Trump’s haunted ‘deal of the century’? Part – I
Int’l law: Offender or defender US? Part – IIon May 13, 2019Since the time Donald Trump resumed the charge as the 45th US President, he seems to have been delivering a negative impact on international law, and the international legal system that now appears on the brink of unraveling. This is also a truism that Trump's indoctrinated foreign policy narrative has created a clash between the hard power forces of unilateralism and the soft power norms of … [Read more...] about Int’l law: Offender or defender US? Part – II
Int’l law: offender or defender US? Part-Ion May 10, 2019“If international law is , in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law''. -Hersch LauterpachtThere can be no denying that the United States and its President play an instrumental role in strengthening or weakening international law. And not deniable, the ideological, legal, and ethical moorings … [Read more...] about Int’l law: offender or defender US? Part-I
