Post-US Afghanistan on August 31, 2021In April 2021, the US announced that it would close its military mission in Afghanistan by September 2021. The Taliban, who were controlling few pockets of rural Afghanistan by then, ramped up attacks on Afghan National Army and areas under their control. By the first week of August 2021, the Taliban started capturing provincial capitals, […]
New World Order — Choice for Pakistan on July 20, 2020At the time of independence in 1947, World was divided into two major blocs; One, Capitalist led by the USA, and the other, Communist led by the USSR. Pakistan following the legacy of its colonial ruler, UK, was inclined towards the Capitalist ideology. So, when the USSR invited the then PM Liaqat Ali Khan for […]
Kashmir: South Asias Palestine on July 27, 2016Since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, Kashmir has been on the edge, sometimes burning, sometimes smouldering. However, after the 1989, freedom movement by the Kashmiris on both sides of Line of Control took off, and has not abated since. Conservative estimates are that over 95,000 people have been killed, with countless injured, and […]