The spread of disinformation over the Internet and social media is a major international challenge that affects us all. Intentionally and verifiably false “fake news”, in other words “outright lies”, is designed to manipulate people’s perceptions of reality. Hiding the real events or causes of those events, the purpose is to hide culpability of the…
While the political upheaval in the country is reflective of the will of the people who desire to rid themselves of both corruption and the status quo, our core “National Interest” certainly cannot be embedded in emotional arguments. A majority of Pakistanis suffer from inequality and injustice prevalent in our feudal society, the feudal mentality…
The US-sponsored global war on terror and its worldwide promotion opened another chapter in the history of South Asia, where the pair of nuclear weapon states are good rivals and bad neighbours. Pakistan’s decision to join the US-led global counterterror campaign made Pakistan a frontline state in America’s international counterterror efforts. Pakistan’s alliance with the…
Context While there are different angles to interpret the fast-moving flux in the global political, economic and security situation, the great power rivalry perspective has a clearly dominant and picking pace. There is usually a period of calm when one power dominates or when there is stability in the balance of power equation. The rapid…
Naseer Turabi, a legendary Urdu poet, could not have prophesied it better. He was in tears on hearing the news of the Fall of Dhaka in December 1971, and he penned his emotions instantly by saying: Vo ham-safar thā magar us se ham-navā. ī na thī, Ke dhuup chhāñv kā aalam rahā judā.ī na thī;…
This article is quite important under the current political situation in Pakistan and foreign currency crisis we are facing due to shortage of dollar reserves and hiking inflation after the announcement of the federal budget. The major political parties appear to be playing a Blame Game pointing to each other but not handling the situation…
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the course of history in global politics and economy. The lockdowns across the globe and curbs on international transportation system have badly affected the supply chain management. The world is now spinning on a regionalist rather than globalist paradigm. Countries are now looking forward to focus more on domestic products,…
Pakistan and Tajikistan are two Muslim states with a thin layer of cooperative interaction in specific fields. The reason behind a limited scope of cooperation with various common cultural and societal similarities is inherited in the historical estrangement. The history of the Cold War period and Pakistan’s decision to join the United States in the…
Introduction Recently in India, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ruling anti Muslim party had to suspend its national spokesperson Nupur Sharma[1] and expel its Delhi media head Naveen Kumar Jindal after their remarks against Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) earned severe diplomatic backlash for India in the Gulf countries and all over the Muslim world. There was Twitter trend #إلا_رسول_الله_يا_مودي all over the world[2]. However…
Recently there has been a lot of talk about honour and independence in international relations, specifically in foreign policy formulation. Imran Khan particularly has struck a chord with the population all across the country. Right or wrong, his narrative of a ‘foreign conspiracy’ to stop his ‘independent foreign policy’ is gaining traction within the masses….
