Imagine two opposing parties slugging it out in a court of law and then both accepting the ruling wholeheartedly afterwards. Imagine indicted individuals coming to court or jail without displaying victory signs. Imagine the truth actually coming out during a hearing. Imagine the competence, or lack thereof, of the prosecution and defence open for public…
In the last three decades countries like China along with Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore and South Korea have achieved enormous levels of growth in trade, education, development, research and economic stability. This rise of these countries has far-reaching effects on the regional politics of Asia and on the politics of global dominance. The center of…
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….
There is no denying the fact that the World is now witnessing the Second Cold War. It is a grim reminder of the struggle between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. This time the struggle is between the United States of America, its allies and the People’s Republic of China. Analysts and…
The South Asian region has completed twenty-four years of its nuclear deterrence without having substantial progress in defusing tensions between India and Pakistan. The completion of more than two decades of nuclearization in South Asia has restrained both New Delhi and Islamabad from being involved in a direct war without minimizing their historical points of…
The celebration of the Youm-e-Takbir in 2022 in Pakistan recalls the history of South Asian nuclearization which was the result of decades-long rivalry between two archrival neighbours, India and Pakistan. The decision for testing nuclear devices and declaring a status of nuclear weapon state internationally was a tough choice for Islamabad in 1998 because the…
