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Extreme climate changes in Pakistan are inevitable in the coming decades. These climate changes have the potential to cause mass migrations and severe losses on Pakistan’s exports, infrastructure, and human security. To tackle these challenges, there is a need to generate financing…
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…
Kashmir is an international flash point with the potential to lead up to a nuclear flare-up in South Asia and after Feb 2019 incidents there is a universal consensus on this assertion. Earlier, in 1999, Kargil War was also fought over Kashmir.…
At a time when the world is fast headed for a bipolar world overshadowed by the US and China competition, India and Pakistan seem oblivious to the myriad challenges they face because of internecine disputes. Since both are not on talking terms,…
Pakistan and Afghanistan are conjoined twins having centuries-old cultural, religious, social, and economic ties. The prosperity of both the nations and, to a great extent, of the entire region, is wedded to their peaceful coexistence. Peace and stability in one country directly…
The assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, on 31 October 1984, led to a massacre of Sikhs — still remembered as one of the darkest chapters of history by Sikhs. Tracing the background of the anti-Sikh riots, in June the same year,…
The term ‘Asian century’ is a synecdoche of the ascendancy of China, India, and other countries of the region in political and economic affairs of the international system. India constitutes a predominant facet of this neologism. The greatness of Indian economy was…
The heritage-tech industry illustrates how art and historical assets are documented, preserved and exhibited using technology. Within the umbrella of this nascent industry fall practitioners, academics, and institutions involved in heritage conservation, archaeology, history, tourism, folklore, languages, music, arts, creative industries, media,…
I vividly remember former Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral once saying, “there has to be a dispute between India and Pakistan; and even if they come to resolve the Kashmir issue, they will invent another one…”. Though sarcastic, the par-excellence diplomat…
Indian Occupation of Kashmir entered its 75th year in 2023. The internationally recognized disputed territory was put in 2019, under siege by the Indian government through a unanimous revocation of special status previously granted to Kashmir by article 370 of the Indian Constitution.…