Ikram Sehgal
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Ikram Sehgal, is acclaimed author of two books “Escape from Oblivion” and “Blood over Different Shades of Green East Pakistan 1971: History Revisited” and is a Pakistani defense analyst and security expert. He is a regular contributor of articles in Pakistani newspapers including The News and the Urdu daily Jang, Nation and Daily Times. He is a Member of the World Economic Forum (WEF); International Organization for Migration (IOM); Director, East-West Institute (EWI), a US-based think-tank; and Member, WEF Global Agenda Council (GAC) for counter-terrorism.
Rebutting blatant falsehoods on Afghan crises
Pakistan has, certainly, played a sorry part in the Afghan situation and has also suffered because of it. Having learnt their lessons, the current government and the Pakistani military are trying their best to not repeat former mistakes.
West manipulating the lessons of history?
By blaming Islamism as the reason for the destabilisation of the Middle East and Africa, Blair conveniently forgets that Al-Qaida and other violent movements, including Osama bin Laden himself, were and are creations of western intelligence agencies.
It’s time to beef up civilian security...
Despite a lot of lip service and rhetoric about the “National Action Plan,” it has not been fully implemented. Terrorist sleeper cells have largely been ignored because of a lack of political will.
We don’t need ‘yes men’ in governments
One such principle that demands our reflection is to stay steadfast in adversity or, using more modern terms, the “courage of conviction”.
This is how India will break into...
In this Article, earlier written in Daily Times, Ikram Sehgal Talks about how over the years the systemic disenfranchisement of certain peoples of India has led to the internal disintegration of the Indian society. He argues that the successionist movements at play in the second-largest democracy are caused by the lack of will by the majority to devolve power to the minorities of the country.
Are vaccines being deployed as part of...
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some important lessons about ourselves....
Op-ed: Public posts require psychological filtering
This question was asked even before Donald Trump was elected President of the US in 2016 and begun acting unconventionally throughout his term of...
Will US democracy survive Trump’s election fraud...
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