Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi

The year 2020 ushers in marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The 75th session of the UNGA opened on Tuesday in New York. This anniversary provides a much-needed opportunity to pilot the hopeful direction of the UN amid the most gigantic challenges that the UN system faces in the 21st Century. Admittedly, in […]

Clearly, yet with no surprise, theunfolding events in Washington and Beijing indicate the glaring spectre of a global passing of the torch from the United States to China. While China continues to assert itself both economically and militarily; the United States is intriguingly tasked with maintaining a balance of power in the West hemisphere, East […]

Recently, the South China Sea seems to be evolving ‘from a territorial and maritime dispute’ between China and the US ‘to a show of force’ primarily featuring the United States (as a strong maritime power and a user State of the South China Sea), and China(as a growing regional maritime power struggling to pursue its […]

The yawning asymmetry –between India and China on the military and economic fronts –leaves India with little wiggle room. Recent tensions “will likely underscore to strategists in New Delhi and Beijing that they should be prepared for sustained competition across domains, and that India could hardly take for granted its partnerships in the region,” Joshua […]

Last Thursday, Israel and the UAE struck a deal -wrapped in the closet of a bilateral quid pro quo(albeit, it is the politics of delusion, deconstruction and centrifugalism) to establish formal diplomatic ties after Tel Aviv agreed to suspend its plan of annexing the parts of the occupied West Bank–via aUS-sponsored brokerage. The deal came […]

Traditionally, the maps shown by nations fundamentally characterise the features of the political boundaries of a nation. Recently, Pakistan has redrawn its official map whose legal moorings lay in UNSC resolutions — thereby warranting the geographical demarcation of our political/national boundaries. Objectively, the maps are used as evidence in international relations, establishing legal relations or […]

Today, India needs a liberal narrative, not a hateful cliché imbibed in the BJP’s political agenda. To many educated Hindus, as well as the Indian citizens hailing from the minority group, nostalgia captures their mind of a liberal order during the Congress regime where it was just like an umbrella that had a place for […]

A United States study on worldwide nuclear materials security for 2020 has positively benchmarked Pakistan (in the ranking for countries with weapons-usable nuclear materials) as the “most improved country” after increasing its overall score. The responsibility for nuclear security within a state (a sine qua non- condition) rests entirely with the state– ensuring the security […]

Tehran – Beijing’s current show of political sagacity via announcing a new historic deal on the Chabahar port, a project of profound leverage, has opened a new window of opportunity for not only the peoples of two countries but also for the populace of the whole region. India’s apparent decision to go along with the […]

Israel refers to the lands behind the so- called Security Barrier as the Seam Zone. Seam zones are sections of Palestinian land in the West Bank, which have been purposefully and tactically isolated by the Israeli government as a result of the erection of the illegal Israeli Apartheid Wall (built in 2003), with their location […]