Pakistan and Afghanistan are next door neighbors with predominant Muslim population along with joint historic cultural linkages; however, the relations between these two predominantly Islamic countries were never pleasant since day one. Analyzing demo graphically, Southern and Eastern Afghanistan is predominately Pashto-speaking like the adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and northern Balochistan regions…
The emerging trends of great power politics have transformed the conventional nature of the international system. This transformation has started pushing the existing designs of great power politics towards a complex oceanic political order in which different mini-alliances of states have begun appearing from different regions. In the debates on the emerging new mini-lateral strategic…
Whose affair is [determined by] consultation among themselves (Quran 42:38) Fulfil your oaths/pledge/covenant; any promise will be checked into (Quran 17:34) And do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly (Quran 2:188)[1] “Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (Quran: 13:11) The ballot is stronger than the bullet….
Robert Kiyosaki is one of the most influential contemporary financial experts, he has won many accolades for his writings and now he has taken up global economy as his next project. In a series of lectures, Robert has come up with a profound theory which explains a lot of occurrences in the modern world and…
Circumstances are difficult, the road treacherous and the leadership inept. While this mantra has been mentioned many times in the past, it does bear repeating today. So for the uninitiated, here it is again circumstances are difficult, the road treacherous and the leadership inept! In the first corner of this boxing circus is the Pakistan…
Addressing Future Fest, Pakistan’s largest tech conference and expo in Lahore recently, I found myself facing a well informed and technical savvy audience. I took the liberty of speaking about Pakistan and the perception of the situation we are facing, a topic very close to my heart which I felt would also strike a chord…
Pakistan’s western border has not been serene for almost four decades now. It has been a theatre of revulsion and an immediate threat to Pakistan’s security and sovereignty. This is so despite a friendly perception being nursed with the landlocked state, and a swirl of unending tales reminding the nation that Afghanistan comes with strategic…
