Arab-Israel bonhomie on December 8, 2020Radical changes have been taking place in the Middle East since UAE signed normalization deal with Israel a few months ago. Bahrain and Sudan followed the suit and recently a secret meeting was reportedly held between Muhammad Bin Salman, the de-facto ruler of Saudi Arabia and Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facilitated by the US […]
Perilous Changes on August 19, 2020Decades of globalisation had made the world a global village but in the last decade, especially since Donald trump saddled the power, anti-globalisation tendencies have been getting impetus all over the world. Changes are taking place in every sphere: politics, economics, and culture have no exemption. In the economic domain, the neoliberal model, which was […]
Major powers’ interests in Afghanistan on July 23, 2020Afghanistan has not seen peace and tranquility since the Soviet Union invaded the country as a part of its expansionist strategy. The United States, an arch Soviet rival entered the arena to circumscribe the former through its alliance with jihadists (holy warriors) using Pakistani state which was a nexus of its kind; the nexus of […]
Where the problem resides on October 20, 2019Bureaucracy is the hand of any government. Without efficient and effective bureaucracy, no government can convert its vision into reality. Unfortunately, Pakistan has completely failed to develop a robust bureaucratic system to ensure good governance and sustainable development. Since before and after the general elections of 2018, we have been listening lofty promises and assertions […]
Converting Gandhi’s India into Hitler’s Germany on August 28, 2019Once again, hyper nationalists are hijacking the world as it happened in the early 1920s and 1930s. That occupation of power culminated in Second World War. The situation is no different now. The Modi-led India and the Trump-led America are glaring examples of that nationalism. In the 1920s and 1930s, Hitler-led Nazi party exploited nationalistic […]
The future of Pakistan-India relations on July 18, 2019Pakistan and India have had a long history of hatred, animosity, competition, and conflict. The two countries have fought four full-fledged wars and countless border skirmishes The expectation of a thaw in Pakistan-India relations from RSS-backed Modi is nothing more than a utopian dream There was much hope of a new era of good relations, […]