Having lived and worked in the UAE for more than a decade, it was heart-wrenching for me to see my second home come under a reign of fire. The once business capitals of the Middle East are in a shambles, as corporates, investors and tourists are keeping their fingers crossed. Likewise, the death and destruction…
Iran is fighting an existential war. Till these lines were being written, Tehran had surprised the pundits of doom by holding fast its fort, and was unrelenting to the Israeli-United States aggression. This is not another war on the Islamic Republic — a country which has braced four decades of sanctions, embargo and an eight-year…
Rabindranath Tagore, the legendary Bengali Nobel laureate poet, said: “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” The Bengali nation has time and again proved that they are resilient and possess the due courage to take a dip in the oceans, when required. From A.K Fazlul Haq to Hussain Shaheed…
The Islamic Republic is back from the brink. Yet, it is in the woods of uncertainty, coupled with inherent domestic revulsion and fear of a plausible aggression. The uprising in December was economic-centric, though. It is laudable, nonetheless, that the government this time around handled the crisis with more sagacity and openly admitted its governance…
Alexander Hamilton’s ghost is apparently circumambulating in the White House. One of the founding fathers and the first US Secretary of Treasury from 1789 to 1795, he espoused the notion that America must never be dependent on any outside power for core components, such as raw material to finished products. That was the inception of…
Alexander the Great, who passed through today’s Rawalpindi Potohar region, in 327 BC, to fight the Battle of Hydaspes with King Porus at the twilight of his unprecedented era, made history as he struck a treasure trove. It is narrated that the warrior’s horses started licking the mountain stones of what is today known as…
Barbara Tuchman, an American historian of repute (1912 – 1989), congruously said, “War is the unfolding of miscalculations.” That proves true as strife-torn Afghanistan musters the courage to take on a neighbouring nuclear power, Pakistan, with the sixth largest army in the world. The genesis of its going over the brink are shrouded in mystery…
Exclusive Interview with Mushahid Hussain Syed Washington and Beijing have convergence of interests in South Asia; India’s thaw with China should be welcomed; Beijing and Washington will soon work for bringing India-Pakistan closer; BRICS and SCO represent Global South in an era of multilateralism; a free Imran Khan can play a better political role Mushahid…
There has been a paradigm shift in the Arabian Peninsula’s security calculus since Iran and Israel fought tooth-andnail for a drawdown conflict. The realpolitik intention of Washington and Tel Aviv was to bring Tehran on its knees and, somehow, engineer a regime change, but that did not materialize. Iran has emerged stronger at home, irrespective…
Iran has undergone a second aggression in its four decades of revolutionary profile, and is literally at the verge of an existential crisis. The first salvo to be experienced was at the hands of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a war that lasted for eight years (1980-88), as the Baathist leader was acting as a mole…
