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Elite capture is wrecking Pakistan

The world is an unfair place, even the richest countries in the world today have glaring inequalities. However, while rich countries have amassed...

19.04.2024 50

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Reading between the lines of Biden’s letter to Pakistan

Within less than a month into office, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has received a letter from President Joe Biden, an ‘honour’ that his...

05.04.2024 40

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Donors don’t care much about air pollution

With winter ending, millions of people in cities like Lahore and Delhi can breathe a bit easier. While the quality of air in these burgeoning cities...

29.03.2024 20

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The triumph of Moditva

With elections about to commence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is again busy whipping up majoritarian sentiments that helped him secure a landslide...

22.03.2024 20

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Right to veto: a stumbling block to averting atrocities

Despite the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, two attempts to pass a ceasefire resolution within the UN Security Council have failed due to the US...

15.03.2024 30

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Don’t expect the US to bolster democracy in Pakistan

Besides the ironic desire of Imran Khan and his supporters to woo American sympathy, after claims that it was American meddling which helped overthrow...

08.03.2024 40

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Beware green colonialism

The global community has not yet shown sufficient resolve to curb global warming emissions to avert catastrophic climate change. Moreover, the very...

01.03.2024 40

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Subcontinent’s lingering democratic deficit

E nsuring democratic rule remains an elusive goal for the post-colonial Indian Subcontinent, which is still perpetuating top-down and hegemonic...

23.02.2024 30

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Pakistan, Taliban and the Durrand Line

Like many other parts of the formerly colonised world, the Indian subcontinent continues struggling with the consequences of arbitrarily drawn...

16.02.2024 100

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A green energy transition is not intrinsically a win-win for all

Over the past few years, we have seen growing calls for phasing out carbon and making a just energy transition. While the last climate moot in Dubai...

09.02.2024 30

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The concept of hedging: lessons for Pakistan

F or several years now, Pakistan has been trying to strike a balance in its relations with the US and China. Achieving such a balance in effect is not...

02.02.2024 50

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Billionaires should become extinct

I n sync with a gathering of the rich and famous at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Oxfam, the advocacy focused NGO group, has released its new...

26.01.2024 10

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Political permutations in South Asia

M uch of South Asia is in a period of transition at present. While the political contours within individual states vary, much of the region is still...

19.01.2024 70

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Assessing efforts to save our planet

W ith the last conference of parties (COP) 28 hosted by Dubai having ended a few weeks ago, this is as good a time as any to reflect on how far we...

12.01.2024 40

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How the US has saved Adani

T he controversial Indian multibillionaire, Gautam Adani, has managed to secure a big boost of confidence by attracting over half a billion dollars...

05.01.2024 30

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R2P and the Israeli attack on Palestinians

T he heavy toll of the Israeli assault on Palestinian civilians has prompted increasing calls for persecuting the Israeli state for war crimes and for...

29.12.2023 50

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Pressuring Israel to stop oppressing Palestinians

T he use of political and economic pressure to compel belligerent states to comply with international norms is not a novel or untested idea. Given the...

22.12.2023 30

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Egregious ecological footprint of the super-rich

C OP28 hosted by the UAE has now wound up with another set of pledges to curb global warming. Despite resistance to completely phasing out fossil...

15.12.2023 20

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What will happen if global warming targets are missed

J ust a few days before the climate summit (COP28), currently taking place in Dubai, the UN Environment Programme released a damning assessment via...

08.12.2023 80

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Make companies pay for climate change

W ith the COP28 event in the UAE having commenced on November 30th, the world is nowhere near close to capping global temperature rise to 1.5C above...

01.12.2023 60

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Financing ‘loss and damage’

The ongoing assault on Palestinians, and the lingering conflict in Ukraine, will invariably complicate efforts to curb climate change at the next...

24.11.2023 30

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Lingering elite capture

T he fact that we live in a highly unequal world is hard to deny. Glaring inequalities exist not only between rich and poor countries, but also within...

17.11.2023 50

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Conventional security versus human security

We live in a world plagued by conflicts, and the continued reliance on the use of conventional force to prevent violence has not proven effective. ...

10.11.2023 40

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Inaction is not an option

Having been hit by two mega-floods within a dozen years and being amongst the most vulnerable countries in terms of climate induced disasters,...

03.11.2023 20

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Piecemeal approaches to climate change

Countries around the world, including Pakistan, are gearing up for next month’s climate summit in the UAE. However, given the current state of...

27.10.2023 20

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Climate-caused ‘loss and damage’: securing compensation

Pakistan was rightly elated at the last global climate summit in Egypt when it led the G77 plus China grouping to compel rich countries to pay poorer...

20.10.2023 70

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Illiberalism rules the day

We have not yet seen the “end of history”, or the so-called dominance of the liberal political and economic order, as Fukuyama had famously...

13.10.2023 40

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A dangerous deflection

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has carefully curated an image of a rising and shining India, with a robust and growing market of increasingly prosperous...

06.10.2023 30

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Canada-India assassination row

T he very public disclosure of the Indian government’s involvement in assassinating a Canadian Sikh dissident with separatist aspirations in British...

29.09.2023 70

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Time for a new SAARC summit?

Under India’s leadership, the African Union has been given membership to the prominent grouping of twenty countries known as the G20. Last month,...

22.09.2023 60

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India’s bid to create a ‘new spice route’

Despite its dark underbelly of divisiveness, India’s meteoric rise orchestrated by the Modi-led government is hard to ignore. No one could have...

15.09.2023 50

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Mismatch in US perceptions and policies towards India

America’s growing reliance on India is viewed with a growing sense of unease in Pakistan. Some astute Pakistani analysts tired pointing out that...

08.09.2023 40

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