On the 500th day of his incarceration, former Prime Minister Imran Khan was resilient as he vowed to ‘fight’ on for years to come. He is under detention on the premise of unending case-logs that are conventional pieces of political victimization in our pseudo democratic-hybrid governance. That also marks the synopsis of prevailing political discord…
Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a historic first given to understand the psyche and conventions of American politics. The fact that the impulsive, firebrand and X-obsessed leader stood his ground and continued to campaign on an agenda that irked the powerful US security establishment, and was at odds with many of the…
The Middle East is in a region in flux. Israel is out to carve out new dynamics solely premised on aggression and intimidation, and the timeline of revulsion for the last one year confirms that any hope for a Palestinian statehood stands dashed. Gaza has been completely obliterated and the West Bank is at the…
It was anguish, boil down for revenge and days later, New Normal. That is how one can decipher the post-October 7, 2023, timeline of Gaza and the Middle East. It is pathetic and conscious-chilling to note that more than 50,000 have died so far, as Palestinians keep their fingers crossed. A year-long trajectory proved that…
Pakistan’s economy is in the woods, and it is impacting national security in the long run. The country’s desperateness to strike a deal once again with the Washington-based lender, the IMF, has come with severe geo-strategic crosscurrents. The Fund is out to fleece a pound of flesh and wants it to be bloodless. Thus, a…
India exhibited its capability to keep diverse partners on its side, in an earnest attempt to foment a balanced foreign policy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprisingly debut visit to Russia, after kick-starting his third-term in office, had categorical messages for Moscow, Washington and Beijing, apart from Brussels. New Delhi was pushing the envelope of strategic…
Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution and a Dalit by himself, was one of the most farsighted souls of the then Indian Subcontinent, as he had the vision of empowering millions of scheduled castes lingering under the lines of apartheid and discrimination in a fellow-Hindu dominated society. That is why he once turned down…
Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev were both statesmen par-excellence and without their far-sightedness China and Russia would not have been where they are today. The least that they contributed to their evolving relationship is a new modus operandi to look beyond the immediate, and marshal a course of action that is nothing but leadership. In…
Yaakov Amidror, a former National Security Advisor of Israel, while commenting on his country’s modus operandi to open several fronts with the Arabs had once said, “…each one is problematic; together, they are devastating.” Perhaps that is what the Zionist state is witnessing in the wake of its jingoism over Syria, persisting genocide against Gazans,…
From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin, Russia has come a long way. It is insurmountable, and has defied all odds to stand tall against an encroaching Western dispensation. The hat-trick presidential victory for the former KGB Colonel at the helm of affairs since 2012 is a feast to be accounted for. Notwithstanding slurs of repression,…
