UNDP’s diagnosis of Pakistan’s economic malaise and contributory factors
The United Nations’ Pakistan’s National Human Development Report 2020 (Power, People and Policy) makes startling revelations about Pakistan’s polity and society. It defines “power”...
The invisible nexus between RSS-BJP to carve out a Hindu India
The writer is of the view that RSS is to the BJP as soul is to the body. The rising influence of the RSS-BJP...
The impact of ideology on a country: How Pakistan’s ideology influences it?
The writer is of the view that ideology of a country does exert a multi-faceted impact on a country. The cataclysmic rise of Tehrik...
Sino-US rivalry and the myth of Thucydides Trap
The writer of the view that are an outcome of complex phenomena. One can’t understand them through the lens of Thucydides trap which he...
United States snubs India for its excessive maritime claim
On April7, 2021, a 9,000-ton guided-missile destroyer, USS John Paul Jones (US 7th Fleet), waded (not strayed as it was deliberate) into the vicinity...
India’s Naxalbari Achilles’ heel
On April3, 2021, there was a pitched battle between a Naxalite (or Maoist) group (called “rebels”) by Indian government) and government forces of over...
Kickbacks in India’s defence purchases
Prime minister Narendra Modi of India boasts his government of being corruption- free. But, his claim has become questionable in the light of recent...
Pakistan’s water-and-energy crisis
The Indus Water Treaty talks between India and Pakistan had been in limbo since India abrogated special status (Article 370) of the occupied Kashmir...
March 23, 1940 versus March 26, 1971: Is two-nation theory dead?
Sheikh Mujibur Rehman declared Bangladesh to be independent on March 26, 1971. There is a long trajectory of events that culminated in this cataclysmic...
Bangladesh’s golden jubilee of independence and 1971 wounds
The writer is of the view that India should avoid marring BD’s independence celebrations by creating ill-will against Pakistan.
Bangladesh is celebrating its golden jubilee...