Changing Trends in the South Asian Region

US has recently blocked Pakistan’s move in UNSC to designate India as a terror backer. Pakistan proposed to enlist three persons in the terror list. Amongst them, one is Venu Madhav Dongara, an Indian contractor who has been working in Afghanistan for a while. Pakistan has blamed Dongara of sponsoring weapons to TTP. Pakistan applied […]

Israel’s Annexation Plan

President Mahmoud Abbas declared on 23rd of June, that the Palestinian government is terminating all security agreements with Israel and the United States. The declaration came in response to a proposed Israeli plan to annex around 30% of the occupied West Bank in July. As per the plan, Israel would keep nearly all of its […]

Strategic Stability in South Asia: Emerging Trends

South Asia remains a region of immense strategic importance despite being politically uncertain, economically-least integrated, socially and ethnically tense and demographically dense. Both the nuclear rivals India and Pakistan belong to this region; possessing wide range of capabilities not only limited to conventional capabilities but other sophisticated nuclear technologies having their own strategic implications. The […]

Social Media: a tool to spread Sponsored Narrative

The 21st century is marked as an era of snackable content. Everything has been designed to ease and attract the customers. Snackable content ranges from short, attention-grabbing and emotional videos on Instagram or Snapchat to short, sweet and extremely filling book reviews on Blinkist or Good Reads. These are just a few anecdotes to feature […]

Pakistan’s jugular vein

Pakistan regards Kashmir as its jugular vein while India claims it as its “atoot aung”–means vital organ. Both the states are trying to dominate each other in this regard while the freedom of thousands of Kashmiris is at stake in this game of geopolitics.           Kashmir is a beautiful valley, shares its borders with Pakistan, […]

The Global Policeman: Muscular but, the Sick Man of the World

It’s too early to fathom the implications of this pandemic as the crisis is still unleashing its contagious effects; with each day multiplying the cases and, in some countries, reaching a threefold figure every new day. The phenomenon of globalization which had to fuse efforts together to work for shared benefits and common challenges, it […]

Afghan peace process: Washington’s Rush and Taliban’s Break off

Global challenges demand global attention, but the picture of war-torn country Afghanistan depicts another story of selfishness and power struggle. Even the pandemic could not provide an interlude between the warring parties. Irrespective of the halted intra-afghan talks, Washington is stick to its plan of withdrawal. As per the agreement at Doha in February, by […]

DOLPHIN AYAN; A TRAGEDY OF OUR SOCIAL FISSURE.

The picture illustrates the transitionary journey of Dolphin Ayan from a college student to a transgender model.

What happened? A young boy with non-binary nature is bullied day in and day out by boys in his home town, school, college and professional environment. He chooses not to continue his professional career- engineering, and opts for a traditionally associated profession of a khawaja sara dancer. A couple of weeks ago he came into spot […]

The “excitement” for Police encounters

I observed the people hailing and chanting the police encounter of child rapists and murderers, carried out under the supervision of CPO Faisalabad. Although it is quite self-satisfying to see the execution of such brutal and inhuman perpetrators but in a larger scenario, it presents a very dark picture of a flawed and crooked justice […]