Turkish airstrikes in Syria: Has the US lost another Middle-Eastern ally?
Mehmet Ersoy | Turkey, which keeps targeting the U.S. allies, is up to pretend that it has taken one of the leading roles in the...
Will the PM leave with a “great fortune” or the burden of a “very great crime”?
Dr. Farid A. Malik | My late father was a habitual litigant. When I took over from where he had left in September 1991, there...
Social Media banned in Kashmir: Indian desperation to stop protests
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have blocked 22 social media applications including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter. An official state circular was issued on Wednesday, April 26 which stated that...
Indian Muslim Women suffering because of abuse of Islamic Law
Rina Chandran | Lucknow, India - Shabana was 18 years old when she was married to a man 15 years her senior, in the northern...
Killing people in the name of meat-politics in India?
Aftab Alam | Indolent Indian cows sitting or eating on the busiest roads of the country’s cities are common sights for anyone who has ever...
Why isn’t the World talking about Kashmir?
Michael Kugelman | Today, the trend lines for Jammu & Kashmir are quite troubling, to say the least. Nearly a year after Indian security forces...
US-Russia Lethal Arms Race: Beginning of a New Cold War?
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The trends in the global politics manifest that Great Powers are investing immensely in advancing their military arsenals. They are...
Judiciary of Pakistan: preserving democracy or saluting gangsters?
Ikram Sehgal | Governor Amir Muhammad Khan Kalabagh’s logic behind not closing down the red light area “Hiramandi” is very revealing, “If you ban them...
Soft Power: Japan has turned its culture into a powerful political tool
Much has been made of Japan’s recent turn away from pacifism and growing military muscle, but Tokyo is also extending its global reach in...
The “peaceful” Buddhists take up arms against Muslims
Michael Jerryson | The recent violence in southern Thailand began on 4 January 2004, when Malay Muslim insurgents invaded a Thai Army depot in the...
How RAW uses ‘Terrorism’ as a tool to pose threat to Pakistan’s viability?
Zeeshan Shahid Khan | Military and political strategists throughout history, such as Chanakya and Machiavelli, have philosophized how tactics of terrorism and cruelty may be...
U.S will confront Russia about its role in Afghanistan
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The seething US-Russia rivalry in Afghanistan took a sharp turn with the explosive threat held out by the visiting US Defense...