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Israel’s war of vengeance

Wars are never prosecuted with vengeance, as a war of vengeance is genocide for the weaker side. The ICJ is yet to decide if the prosecution of war by...

30.05.2024 70

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Perils of uncontrolled exposure: conclusions and way forward

Previously in this space, themes and broad strands that carry the current onslaught of uncontrolled exposure to social media were outlined, such as...

23.05.2024 40

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Perils of uncontrolled exposure in the age of AI-driven social media

We continue the debate about some of the drivers of populism in contemporary Pakistan, and more broadly elsewhere, to see how uncontrolled and...

16.05.2024 100

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Populism, PTI, Pakistan and 9th May

European Centre for Populism Studies (ECPS) conducted an online panel discussion titled ‘Mapping Global Populism: Unveiling Many Faces of Populism...

09.05.2024 100

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America’s moral power — indispensability and indiscretion

Sometimes it is hard to say something that has been said by so many people, so many times, on so many occasions. Analysis space is burgeoning with...

02.05.2024 60

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The mask is off

Someone recently shared a street photo from some Western country, where a letter box had a note stuck on it requesting people not to use it as birds...

25.04.2024 60

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War within wars — out of shadows

So finally, Iran’s patience with Israel’s constant provocation ran out; and on 14 April it launched Operation True Promise (va’de-ye s ā deq),...

18.04.2024 60

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Pakistan’s to-do list on ties with Afghanistan

Continuing from last week, Pakistan is also in quandary to manage its relations with Afghanistan that follows an anti-Pakistan course despite friendly...

04.04.2024 100

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Ties with Pakistan — IEA’s to-do list

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) finds itself in deep quandary when its sole benefactor, Pakistan, seems to have turned away from overwriting...

28.03.2024 70

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Pakistan’s airstrikes in Afghanistan — the aftermath

On 16 March 2024, a multiple suicide truck bomb and gun attack carried out by militants linked with TTP’s Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group, in the Khaddi...

21.03.2024 70

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The rationality of Afghan bitterness towards Pakistan

The bogey of Pashtunistan and the oft-repeated claim that Durand Line was accepted by Afghanistan’s Iron Amir, Abdur Rehman Khan, under duress, were...

14.03.2024 80

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In search of rationality in Afghan bitterness towards Pakistan

It was only when some friends interceded on behalf of its Pakistani representative that I accepted to speak on Pakistan-Afghan relations ‘only’,...

07.03.2024 40

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Looking for miracles

So finally, the post-vote dust is settling down in Pakistan’s troubled parliamentary democracy. PMLN’s Maryam Nawaz is the first female Chief...

29.02.2024 20

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The sadness of rags to riches

The following story is fictional, written in the spirit of ‘to whom it may concern’, where the intended reader can opt out at any stage. The young...

22.02.2024 50

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The madness of emotions

L ast week I wrote on the futility of elections, as these reinforce the financial, political and social status-quo in Pakistan without addressing...

15.02.2024 20

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Will elections change anything?

T he candidate’s father wanted to field his son for the provincial legislature in today’s elections in KPK, and he proudly confided to me that he...

08.02.2024 20

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Revisionist Iran’s military capability and implications

T he fact that Iran’s’ Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)-clergy combine is a revisionist dispensation keen to export its brand; is steeped in...

01.02.2024 50

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Iran’s revisionist misadventure — taking Pakistan for granted

T he Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) with blessings from the top Iranian leadership carried out a combined drone and missile strike in Sabz Koh...

25.01.2024 60

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Pakistan, politics, perils and prospects

A t senior positions one is always confronted with the dilemma of decision-making (DM), to pick the right option from a range of options presented....

18.01.2024 80

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Sino-US rivalry

I t was in 2003 when Fareed Zakaria, the eminent Indian American analyst better known for his CNN programme ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS’, wrote “The...

11.01.2024 100

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Year 2023 — the world away from Pakistan

S o, another year passed with Pakistani politics still roiling in gutter, debate without substance and national discourse apparently directionless,...

04.01.2024 50

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War on terror — Pakistan’s forgotten story

L ast week we discussed the conceptual framework of terrorism, which is a byproduct of ‘violent extremism’, emanating from radicalization. That...

28.12.2023 70

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Terrorism and Pakistan’s response

I n the expansive literature on the subject, terrorism is considered a byproduct of ‘extremism’ which, once violent, transcends into terrorism....

21.12.2023 90

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Pak-Afghan relations — DI Khan attack and TTP

O n 28th November, Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) summoned head of the Afghan diplomatic mission to convey four explicit demands: a) extradition of...

14.12.2023 100

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Impact of recent conflicts, multipolarity and the US empire

L ast week in this space, trends defining the contemporary construct of International Relations were outlined. First, the war in Ukraine has pushed...

07.12.2023 100

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