The narrative of geo-economics, in the backdrop of emerging trade corridors through Pakistan, is mainly focused on transforming the country into a commercial and investment hub. To evolve into a dependable node connecting Asia’s different sub-regions, Pakistan needs to strengthen its economic…
There is no doubt that technology will change human futures; some will be more challenging than others; the newest-on-the-bloc is Artificial Intelligence (AI). As China and the US seek to dominate this new-age interest, Muhammad Faizan Fakhar argues how countries in South Asia can…
The history of Kashmir is replete with names of many brave women that toiled its lands, lived for it, and perished in it. We hear about the plight of Kashmiris and how they have been suffering not for decades but centuries. We…
Potemkin reality is an oxymoron apparently, as “Potemkinism” is as divorced from reality as a gospel truth is from falsehood. The term is derived from the memory of a fake village created to impress the Russian empress during her visit to Crimea…
Balochistan is again in news because of the nabbing of Balochistan National Army’s (BNA) head Gulzar Imam Shambay. He was initially a Balochistan Students Organization (BSO) activist who came under the sway of anti-state forces and ended up leading an insurgent group…
For a country which is already grappling with a grave food crisis and whose majority population is struggling to make ends meet, untimely and erratic rain is the last thing needed. Several parts of the country are experiencing heavy windstorms, rain and…
As the strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies, the echoes of Cold War 2.0 and camp politics get louder. While third-world countries are finding it difficult to navigate the great power politics, Pakistan, in particular, is experiencing intensified disruptive geopolitical forces. Irrespective of all…
Irfan Meraj, a Kashmiri journalist, has been arrested by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Srinagar. Meraj has been charged with terrorism and “inciting disaffection towards government through words.” A case has been registered against Meraj in New Delhi. Meraj is being…
As Saudi authorities gunned down more than 400 Iranian pilgrims during the occasion of Hajj in 1987, it was one of the worst scenarios to set in their bilateral relations. It was a torpedoed mosaic of bad blood interaction since then-on for…
“Those who own and control the most powerful digital technologies will increasingly write the rules of society itself. Software engineers are becoming social engineers. Digital is political.” – Jamie Susskind
Perhaps digital media platforms were only seen from some sort of an…