|
Syed Mohammad AliThe Express Tribune |
The world is an unfair place, even the richest countries in the world today have glaring inequalities. However, while rich countries have amassed...
Within less than a month into office, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has received a letter from President Joe Biden, an ‘honour’ that his...
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...
With elections about to commence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is again busy whipping up majoritarian sentiments that helped him secure a landslide...
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...
Besides the ironic desire of Imran Khan and his supporters to woo American sympathy, after claims that it was American meddling which helped overthrow...
The global community has not yet shown sufficient resolve to curb global warming emissions to avert catastrophic climate change. Moreover, the very...
E nsuring democratic rule remains an elusive goal for the post-colonial Indian Subcontinent, which is still perpetuating top-down and hegemonic...
Like many other parts of the formerly colonised world, the Indian subcontinent continues struggling with the consequences of arbitrarily drawn...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
T he controversial Indian multibillionaire, Gautam Adani, has managed to secure a big boost of confidence by attracting over half a billion dollars...
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...
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...
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...
J ust a few days before the climate summit (COP28), currently taking place in Dubai, the UN Environment Programme released a damning assessment via...
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...
The ongoing assault on Palestinians, and the lingering conflict in Ukraine, will invariably complicate efforts to curb climate change at the next...
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...
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. ...
Having been hit by two mega-floods within a dozen years and being amongst the most vulnerable countries in terms of climate induced disasters,...
Countries around the world, including Pakistan, are gearing up for next month’s climate summit in the UAE. However, given the current state of...
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...
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...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has carefully curated an image of a rising and shining India, with a robust and growing market of increasingly prosperous...
T he very public disclosure of the Indian government’s involvement in assassinating a Canadian Sikh dissident with separatist aspirations in British...
Under India’s leadership, the African Union has been given membership to the prominent grouping of twenty countries known as the G20. Last month,...
Despite its dark underbelly of divisiveness, India’s meteoric rise orchestrated by the Modi-led government is hard to ignore. No one could have...
America’s growing reliance on India is viewed with a growing sense of unease in Pakistan. Some astute Pakistani analysts tired pointing out that...