Tag: Conflict

Introduction Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some ...

Since 1990s, global poverty has declined and democracy has spread. But these global trends have failed to strengthen fragile states, ...

Ancient battles echo through the chambers of history, not just in the corridors of History or English departments at universities, ...

With India and Pakistan celebrating the 75th anniversary of their Independence, we are both immensely happy and optimistic, and yet ...

Ambassador Dinkar Srivastava is an Indian career diplomat with a long involvement in representing the Indian point of view and ...

Pakistan’s lingering intra-elite conflict is entering a decisive but dangerous phase. It may destruct our fragile parliamentary democracy, power centres ...

While social scientists generally complain about the paucity of good social science literature coming out of Pakistan in the last ...

Is Pakistan on the brink? This question agitates the mind of her citizens. It haunts all those who have sacrificed ...

For nearly three months, viewers around the globe have been subjected to a daily dose of heart-wrenching pictures of Ukrainian ...

Those who forget history are condemned to relive it. It is interesting to see how one can learn so much ...

In the summer of 1971 when the Bengali uprising had built up wide-spread momentum and the security forces desperately tried ...

There were many who were shocked after witnessing a barrage of hateful posts and tweets when Malala was shot and ...

There is a huge media hype in India on the movie Kashmir Files, which depicts the persecution of Kashmiri Pandits ...

While 11 members of the UN Security council voted in favour of a resolution on ending the Ukraine crisis, which ...

“Qaachaaq is like breaking into someone’s home,” said Sajid while pouring me tea in his dimly lit and dreadfully untidy ...

For many in Pakistan, there is one reason for the country’s perennial laggardness – corruption. These Pakistanis blame the cupidity ...

The Afghan Taliban’s appeal for food assistance appeared to have been made in desperation. But the world must listen. This ...

It was the January of 2011. Deep winter in Waziristan and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, rode through ...

To accommodate the stream of refugees fleeing Afghanistan via Pakistan, authorities in Karachi are making special arrangements at Jinnah International ...

Aleppo has been a great city for centuries. Syed Amir describes how this city has always been a prize for ...