Tag: states

In the last few years, a new word has been added to the political vocabulary – “Syrianization.” This new word ...

The year 2022 was a tumultuous one for Pakistan’s domestic politics and even self-image, but one aspect of foreign policy ...

The biggest sporting event in the world has ended. The grand finale was played on Sunday, 18 December 2022, at ...

Many people who had contributed to the arts, politics and culture of South Asian have passed away this year. Among ...

When I entered journalism in November 1992, one of the first things that I learned in the newsroom was that ...

While Pakistani political elites fight it out among themselves over the possible outcomes of existing political situations, obscured from the ...

The Truman Doctrine, which gave impetus to the practice of 'regime change’ in countries that were perceived as being against ...

When the world was overwhelmed with war mania and political revolutions, John Lennon was painting an image of a beautiful ...

Pakistan is once again all set to become a center-piece in the new emerging Cold War between the United States ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the map of the Communist world changed beyond recognition. The USSR disappeared and ...

The famed Rohilla clans were mainly drawn from Pashtun tribes. They migrated from their barren surroundings in the Hindukush and, ...

I saw the all-time epic Gone with the Wind in Karachi in the late 1960s. It glorified the way of ...

In 2020, a friend, settled in the US, quipped that never had he heard so many Pakistanis (in the US) ...

A mountainous land along the border to two modern ‘states’, where a certain furious and primitive lot, called ‘tribes’ live, ...

Europe's economy is struggling with many problems, and a significant slowdown: in fact, it still has not recovered from the ...

June 1962, a federal prison in Atlanta USA: it was a bright sunny morning and all the prison inmates were ...

Broadly speaking, Pakistani historiography has tended to focus mainly on the country’s high politics, but a few have penned the ...

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

The recent visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi—speaker of the US house of representatives—has angered China. China had made repeated ...

Last month the largest gathering of Pakistanis outside Pakistan took place in Atlantic City in the US. It was the ...

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) is nearing its first anniversary since its capture of Kabul in August 2021, but ...

Khanspiracy While commenting on PTI’s stunning victory in the recently concluded Punjab Assembly (PA) by-elections, almost all analysts agree that ...

Governing Pakistan was never easy. Now it is just bordering on impossibility. Its domestic political structures—that includes the normative constitutional ...

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by telephone this week, emphasising both sides’ ...

The Iconoclast Images of fanatical Chinese youth waving Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’ (Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù) during the Cultural Revolution appeared ...

For some years my life has been split between New York and Rawalpindi. While living in two places can make ...