Bombs Blasts/IEDs A man was killed in a bomb explosion in Kamarsar area in Mamond tehsil in Bajaur district on Thursday, July 2. Sources said that miscreants had planted a bomb to a shop in Kamarsar area in Mamond tehsil when it went off with a big bang. As a result, a 60-year old watchman…
ABSTRACT Dr. Muhammad Iqbal is the National Poet of Pakistan. The world at large recognizes him as a great orientalist, philosopher and humanist. He is the true vicegerent of Almighty Allah (SWT) due to his primary role of preserving Nature and natural bounties. He is a staunch lover of Divine Creations whether inanimate or animate…
Introduction Amid the outbreak of coronavirus, the world is again witnessing the change in prevailing shift in the use of conventional forces to weapons of mass destruction. With the introduction of ballistic missiles as nuclear warhead in the twentieth century that could potentially be fired from the territory of one state and wreak great destruction…
The spread of infectious disease in the world, commonly recognized as Covid-19, has shaken the traditional foundations of the international system. A long list of strategic differences between states has become the issue of relatively less important for the international community before the rise of the novel coronavirus. The rise of coronavirus from Chinese city…
Chabahar is turning out to be Delhi’s Waterloo. Lack of policy consistency, moonlighting with the United States and a Jadhav-jaundiced faux pas has cost it quite dearly. The India-Iran calculus has gone wrong. It is not paying dividends. Tehran had reasons to be skeptical of New Delhi’s off and on somersaults, especially during the last…
Today is the first anniversary of India’s single-handed introduction of the way they think the Kashmir problem would be solved. On 5 August 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status of special autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir—a region administered by India as a result…
Mass poverty and pandemics are both facts of life that involve millions of people at the same time. The same can be said for relief measures thereof they have to cater to millions of people after those have been identified at the same time. In a country like Pakistan with over 200 million people to…
Beautifully situated on the shores of the Bosphorus straits connecting the Marmara Sea to the Black Sea and regarded as the border between Europe and Asia. Istanbul is one of the most important cities of Eurasia, a transcontinental metropolis of 15 million today. Founded around 660 BC as “Byzantine”, it was renamed in 330 AD…
The corona pandemic and the new social movements created by it has stirred up apart from racism – another critical topic: “colonialism” and how to deal with colonial history. With pandemics isolation fostering frustration, the dispute has turned violent in many places. Protesters rallied in Columbia to demand the confederate flag’s removal from South Carolina’s…
Context Never before have there been so many conflicts been brewing at the same time, in particular in the regions of Middle East – and the adjoining areas of South Asia and North Africa. There is a tendency to view these conflicts as separate with their individual dynamics. However, they intertwined and there is a…
