The American cause on January 13, 2021What happened at Capitol hill was not unexpected.The American republicanism clamping downunderthe burdenof its ethnographic diversity?The preposition is farfetched keeping in view the history ofsystemic resilience of this nation to preserve democracy passing through the fourth century of political ups and downs-a journey of immense polarization and bloodshed. Neither the crises nor the events are […]
Collective statesmanship on January 4, 20211945 was the ‘zero year’ of the twentieth century. From 1945 to 1960, 36 states were decolonized from European imperialism. The process of decolonization was inorganically grounded withthe cultural aspirations of the diverse human strata inhabiting the colonized extensions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It was orderly executed in some areas. However, in […]
THE PENDULUM DEMOCRACY on December 29, 20201945 was the ‘zero year’ of the twentieth century. From 1945 to 1960, 36 states were decolonized from European imperialism. The process of decolonization was inorganically grounded with the cultural aspirations of the diverse human strata inhabiting the colonized extensions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It was orderly executed in some areas. However, […]
The soft power in global diplomacy on December 5, 2020The writer is an academic, columnist, and public policy researcher The combination of ‘Soft’ and ‘Power’ is artistically paradoxical. There can be many differentials to the concept. Precisely, it is the power of a human, group, and nation to add value in terms of comfort, skill, and aesthetics to the life of a fellow human, […]
Rationalizing politics and governance on November 10, 2020The exceptional propagation of globalization triggered by the dominance of world capitalist system in the economic, administrative, cultural, political, and intellectual demesne in most countries around the world. The purpose of globalization is to have identical rules and regulations across the institutions of the world so that institutions may benefit from the experiences of each […]
Life in Unsafe Air on Unsafe Ground on June 5, 2020The UN Development Programme’s Human Development Report ranked Pakistan as 152nd in the Human Development Index (HDI) out of 189 countries; the lowest in the region. Bangladesh stands at 135, India at 129 and Siri Lanka at 71. The HDI is a summary measure to assess long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development: […]
Transforming atrocity into aesthetics on May 19, 2020When you have nothing to do, the first afterthought is to reset. World’s newspapers get flooded with the word. Reset capitalism, reset democracy, reset the relationship with nature, and so on. True, all greatness comes from the school of adversity: an optimistic approach in devastating times, nevertheless, the question remains, who are the agents of […]
Transforming atrocity into aesthetics on May 17, 2020When you have nothing to do, the first afterthought is to reset. The world’s newspapers get flooded with the word. Reset capitalism, reset democracy, reset the relationship with nature, and so on. True, all greatness comes from the school of adversity: an optimistic approach in devastating times, nevertheless, the question remains, who are the agents […]
The global ceasefire, rhetoric or reality? on April 29, 2020The Coronavirus outbreak is the biggest challenge for humanity since World War 2, warned by UN-Secretary General, António Guterres’s. The pandemic has killed more than 160 thousand people all over the world and affected the normalcy of life in 184 countries. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s emergency program, said health systems […]
The global ceasefire, rhetoric or reality? on April 18, 2020The coronavirus outbreak is the biggest challenge for humanity since the World War II, as stated by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The pandemic has killed more than 100,000 people all over the world and has affected the normalcy of life in more than 184 countries. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s emergency […]