Opinion

We in Pakistan have not been able to write a people’s history

When do we panic and when do we go into lockdown?

For the Afghans, the creation of a nation out of diversity has been a long struggle

The dominance of materialism has made us humans subservient to vanity, lust, and self-gratification

IIOJ&K is fast becoming an immutable anamnesis of an unachievable struggle for self-determination

Asian values and more particularly ours are quite different from the Western ones

When the state and people are so disconnected fragmentation and dissolution results. A nation-state ceases to exist.

Perhaps I put the cart before the horse

Karachi is desperately waiting for its saviours

The difference is possibly due to different political theoretical standpoints

Are we ready to navigate through the complex geo-political environment dominated by competition between China and US?

History’s conflicts and the momentary hate they produce can always be recycled and put to political use

Promoting right culture within institutions will improve credibility of the process and help overcome elite capture

Before the outbreak, we took pride in walking or standing so close that people would collide with one another

Time has proven the universal franchise to be a hotbed for widespread electoral corruption of many sorts

Ownership of the peace process by Taliban and other stakeholders is the only way to give people a break from bloodshed

Poor are expected to bear the brunt of climate change, which will exacerbate already glaring global inequalities

Some pieces remarkably put together interesting debates on the fashionable league tables on competitiveness

All forces within Afghanistan have to shed their tribal and ethnic egocentrism to make intra-Afghan talks successful

The Chinese model is based upon the binary of opposites — Yin-Yang

Any irrational decision would give a major setback to Pakistan’s digital progress

Afghans would lose again because when elephants fight, it’s the grass that is trampled

CAA was specifically coined to target Muslim countries in India and was supposed to be used as propaganda weapon

The society seems to have closed its doors to this unfortunate segment of society

52% of the voters stated they could see Starmer becoming PM in the future

It may not be unfair to conclude that 73 years of abuse directed towards women, children has taught us nothing

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed new fault-lines in the international political arena

Victim blaming robs the victim of their dignity. It argues that people deserve to be raped

We as a society blame women, while conveniently forgetting that such criminals don’t even spare minor girls

We are complicit and complacent, and we are the ones failing society, and we need to acknowledge it

Victims should not be blamed. Rapists cannot keep getting away. This cycle must change.

How would Pakistan be affected if Trump makes it back to the White House in January 2021?

Gender is multi-layered and a structural issue

It is sheer coincidence that the crucial intra-Afghan talks kicked off a day after 19th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

Modern conflict is measured to the purpose – coercive, punitive, or retributive

Why can’t this nation, politics do away with mediocre, self-serving sub-nationalists who can't see beyond their noses?

Ending the 40-year-long conflict is a dream of the Afghans that would hopefully be realised

In a country where women are dug up from graves to be raped, the CCPO Lahore questions the victim

Ground reality reveals deep rooted patriarchy that has taken hold of both formal state institutions and informal ones

The Indian deep state is busy investing heavily in the rise of far-right elements both at home and abroad

One common feature of govts since 1977 was the IMF dictated economic model they all worked

It is critical that the policymakers across the country ensure that a proper Covid school safety policy

The war with the virus is by no means over and one just has to keep fingers crossed and behave as safely as possible

Had Pakistan been a welfare state, Karachi would not have been so badly hit by torrential rains

It would be no small feat if Pakistan can continue collaborating with both China and the US

For a long time in US history, weak law enforcement has been cited as the justification for the right to bear arms

In its desire to isolate Pakistan, the Pulwama attack brought the Kashmir issue again to the centre stage of the world

All rich individuals are not essentially corrupt

US economy cannot swallow the higher cost of decoupling with smaller trading partners, let alone Chin

Seeing Trump lose would be of tremendous entertainment