Our forefathers who worked relentlessly to carve out an independent state for the Muslims of the Subcontinent had a vision and they literally believed in a secular edifice, irrespective of the fact that they were zealous Islamic ideologues. They were quite conscious of segregation that the Muslims were facing, at the hands of their brute…

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the course of history in global politics and economy. The lockdowns across the globe and curbs on international transportation system have badly affected the supply chain management. The world is now spinning on a regionalist rather than globalist paradigm. Countries are now looking forward to focus more on domestic products,…

Historical Perspective By the year 1978, western powers considered Iran as a stable and trusted ally in Gulf region. Armed with sophisticated and most modern warfare weapons made in US, the oil-rich state had a highly specialized army and an efficient and dreaded secret police, the Savak. Raza Shah Pehlavi was the supreme leader of…

One can perhaps say that history loses its significance in the absence of human diligence and that it is more the reflection of a human mind than the corporeal existence of life. The stages of history were actually the evolution of the human mind on this ever contracting earth with increase in its populations and…

“The institution of diplomacy is as old as history itself. Oppenheim in his treatise of International Law has stated ‘Legation as an institution for the purpose of negotiating between different states is as old as histories whose records are full of examples of legations sent and received by the oldest nations.’ History records that in…

On 27 March 2016, Pakistan was again ruthlessly attacked by terrorists at Gulshan Park, Lahore, to the horror of the Pakistani Nation. More than 72 men, women and children were killed and almost 300 injured in the bloody attack. A nation that has been on a constant hit list for several years by terrorists again…

“There is a general agreement that the world order is changing, but considerable disagreement about how it is changing. Communicators variously locate this change in a ‘power shift’ from West to East, a trade in superpower status between the United States and China, or a transition from an era of biography to one of uni-polarity,…

“…. why Britain had to relinquish its Indian empire in 1947. It argues that imperial policy towards Indian nationalism suffered from a chronically poor sense of timing. Misjudgments led to moderate nationalist leaders being marginalized and militant ones being strengthened. Over time, the secessionist agenda of the latter gained respectability among the Indian masses. Despite…