Opinion

As hostilities between to two states are reaching a boiling point

India will have to bear cost of deploying almost a third of its army and half of its air force along Himalayan LoC

India needs a massive change of posture and outlook

Battle lines have been drawn to choose which side of the fence they would like to be at the time of the final showdown

Ginsburg was an inveterate and ferocious dissenter: she had the courage to take the road less frequented unabashedly

Dissent cannot be eradicated even with the use of relentless propaganda and censorship

The failure of Islamabad to effectively use its cards against India further encouraged New Delhi

Feminists around the world have long been struggling with multiple forms of gender discrimination

It is obvious that higher education has a strong lobby and pressure groups

The increase in prices of life-saving drugs is preferable to their non-availability

Each one of us will have to play a role

Afghanistan remains one of the most widely covered crises of modern times

The truth is that real leaders don’t run away, they stay put and fight where the fight is

Democracy requires not only the wisdom to lead but also the wisdom to follow

Legislation should always be done with national consensus after ensuring that all stakeholders are onboard

Gone are the days when India was idolised as a model of democracy for developing nations

Like all women in the profession of law, she faced gender-based discrimination

Change is on its way. The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a new era

Judicial processes take years because of the decrepit system that does not meet the criteria of a quick justice

The world must realise that the Indian expansionist quest has endangered regional peace

Establishing a forensic DNA databank could be a game-changer for reducing sexual offences in Pakistan

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