Whose affair is [determined by] consultation among themselves (Quran 42:38) Fulfil your oaths/pledge/covenant; any promise will be checked into (Quran 17:34) And do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly (Quran 2:188)[1] “Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (Quran: 13:11) The ballot is stronger than the bullet….
The emerging trends of great power politics have transformed the conventional nature of the international system. This transformation has started pushing the existing designs of great power politics towards a complex oceanic political order in which different mini-alliances of states have begun appearing from different regions. In the debates on the emerging new mini-lateral strategic…
Pakistan and Afghanistan are next door neighbors with predominant Muslim population along with joint historic cultural linkages; however, the relations between these two predominantly Islamic countries were never pleasant since day one. Analyzing demo graphically, Southern and Eastern Afghanistan is predominately Pashto-speaking like the adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and northern Balochistan regions…
The global debates of nuclear politics cannot be studied without discussing the South Asian regional security environment under the nuclear shadow. The governments of India and Pakistan decided to test their nuclear devices in 1998 and transformed the regional political order of South Asia, where the multileveled hostility between two nuclear-armed neighbours has now become…
Circumstances are difficult, the road treacherous and the leadership inept. While this mantra has been mentioned many times in the past, it does bear repeating today. So for the uninitiated, here it is again circumstances are difficult, the road treacherous and the leadership inept! In the first corner of this boxing circus is the Pakistan…
Robert Kiyosaki is one of the most influential contemporary financial experts, he has won many accolades for his writings and now he has taken up global economy as his next project. In a series of lectures, Robert has come up with a profound theory which explains a lot of occurrences in the modern world and…
Media plays an important part in political socialization. With the advent of mass media, it is generally believed that the role of media is very important in creating political awareness among peoples and their participation in the democratic process in the society. It also plays an important role in changing the society. Socialization is the…
The United States of America was the deciding factor in the Second World War. It is also true that the ascent of the United States in world dominance was paved by the defeat of the Germans in Europe and was hailed as the armed nation that liberated the western world. And so, from that point…
Since the discovery of oil in the second half of the 19th century in the US, the political power of oil has been on ample display. It has been the most critical dimension in shaping international, domestic and social life. Subsequent detection of oil reserves in Russia, Latin America and the Middle East meant that…
“Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (Quran: 13:11) Introduction Even after 75 years of independence, the objectives of hard-earned freedom through great sacrifices and enormous loss of human lives and material through democratic political struggle remains a far-fetched dream. There are many reasons but the top…
