Waseem Shabbir

The completion of a hundred years old peace agreement named “Treaty of Lausanne” by 2023 is not far away. For the last few years, debates among various geopolitical and geostrategic thinkers have gained momentum about this conundrum. During the last decade, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has emerged as a vibrant leader to international prominence in all […]

Bangladeshi economy had been growing at the fastest pace for the last decade. This country earned tremendous applause for being out of any economic barrier like that of Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Everything was smoothly moving in the right direction. The unemployment rate was slightly up to 5.23 per cent. Even in per capita income, […]

The 48th summit of G-7 was held in Germany’s Schloss Elmau last month. As usual, this summit was again based on crafting anti-China policies, agreements and nexuses. However, the gigantic development that came to the fore this time was the proclamation of a mega project named “Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment” (PGII) unanimously by […]

The recent incident of blasphemy in India has sparked a fierce wave of indignation amongst all Muslims of the world. Reportedly two high officials of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) named Nupur Sharma and Jindal used blasphemous language against our beloved Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), which provoked the sentiments of 204 million Indian Muslims. Out of fury, […]

Geopolitical dynamics are rapidly shaping up in strategically important regions of the world heralding no sign of peace, cooperation and interdependence among international power blocs in near future. It is a political phenomenon that alliances and pacts among states change with the change in their interests. Consequently, the international political system is bound to be […]

In the past, multiple experiments were carried out by various regimes, including those of Ayub, Bhutto, Zia and Musharraf, to reform the poor education system of Pakistan. Deplorably, no earnest and pragmatic measures were taken to deliberate and detect the dominant pitfalls and hazards in this noble sector. The provision of quality education to the […]

The unplanned and hurried US withdrawal from Afghan soil-descending the country into unrest-provided the Taliban with an opportunity to take over Kabul and immediately announce their interim government has flabbergasted the whole world. The terrible defeat in the two-decades-long war at the hands of the Taliban was no small feat. The Taliban’s unflinching armed resistance […]