Pakistan: Which way to go?
A few days
ago, a trend dominated on twitter was "we want the
presidential system." Some months ago, the same debate regarding the
implementation of the presidential...
Gory amendment in India’s citizenship law
West
Bengal, Assam, Tripura and some other states in India’s North East were a
simmering cauldron against compilation of a so-called National Register of
Citizenship (NRC). Oblivious...
The result of Afghan presidential election: Future possibilities and challenges
Afghanistan’s election was held on September 25.
And now, after a long pause, the preliminary results have been announced,
with Mohammad Ashraf Ghani winning 923,868 votes...
South Asia’s Externalized Demons
As the Indian and Pakistani militaries yet
again trade ominous
threats with one another, the Line of Control is once more witness to a
sustained and significant...
The Special Court’s Last Verdict, the Pain and Anguish
Since
independence, Pakistan has been run by military dictators for four-time; most
of them served as president for many years either through insubstantial
elections or bizarre constitutional...
Questionable assumptions of India’s citizenship amendment
The whole superstructure of Indian
government’s citizenship amendment bill, now enacted, is erected on claim that
religious minorities have been brutally persecuted and still face
discrimination in...
Further Division of India inevitable
The biased Citizenship Act passed in India
has laid the foundation for further division of India. The widespread
agitations and condemnation at the national level as...
Nepal: A Victim of Legacy of British Colonial Times
India has recently moved to divide Indian occupied
part of Kashmir into two federally administered territories of Ladakh and
J&K despite protests from within as well...
Can New Delhi and Islamabad move beyond a zero sum approach?
Recent
weeks have witnessed some interesting developments in the context of Pakistan’s
external outreach. First, a senior member of Imran Khan’s cabinet, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, the...
Indian Diplomacy: Aligning with the nation’s interests
India has
been aiming higher and bolder since the arrival of the Narendra Modi government
in 2014. One area where this is visible since the inception...