Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Keeping Strategic Assets Secure

‘Strategic assets’ is a relatively new concept that arose in connection with the fast-forward development of economic globalization in the 20thc. and a new...

A Feudal Electoral System

The Magna Carta, or the “Charter of Liberties”, limiting the King’s power and strengthening the rights of nobles was agreed to by King John...

Shared Heritage

“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) Every religion has two aspects; one deals with outward rituals...

Letting a 100 Dams Bloom

For a country blessed with many rivers, the perennial scarcity of water in Pakistan is because of the shortage of storage capacity. While problematic...

Pakistan’s Aggressive Foreign Policy

The recent developments in the global and regional arena are troublesome and dangerous that require careful attention from our policy makers on how to...

The Balochistan Disconnect

On the evening of Oct 22, 2017 as I was entering Quetta Club with a CPNE delegation for a dinner hosted by the Speaker...

The Balochistan Quagmire

Sardar Akhtar Mengal believes his six point formula submitted before the Supreme Court (SC) will bring about resolution of major issues in the province....

Pakistan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan

The patterns of global power politics have started witnessing the growing cooperative ties between states at the trilateral and quadrilateral levels. This change has...

The Brics Summit

The forthcoming BRICS Summit set to take place between August 22nd and 24th in Johannesburg, South Africa, has plunged into a whirlpool of international...

Quran Burning – Will Protests Work?

Introduction Recently, a Quran burning incident took place outside Stockholm’s main mosque, this was condemned by Sweden’s government as an “Islamophobic” act. Islamophobia refers to...