Indeed, India and Pakistan are intertwined in an absolute longstanding security competition. Although, nuclear parity does not exist in the region neither both states are conventionally parallel but action-reaction or tit-for-tat cycle is rapidly enhancing the nuclear capabilities in Southern region, specifically of India and partially of Pakistan. India shares […]
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Islamic International University: The Game of Strict Rules
The current condition of international Islamic university’s rules and regulations is getting worse by each passing day. Rules are made on “emergency basis” and are implemented only to be replaced by some other haphazardly conceived set of rules. It seems that higher authorities don’t pay attention to the security of the […]
The selfie syndrome
Everywhere you go, you are likely to observe people taking selfies. Chances are that you yourself might be one of them taking a selfie with a beautiful smile. Reporting to school/university/job, preparing notes, hanging out with friends, visiting a party till that anxious visage to go to sleep, there is […]
The Plight of Pakistan’s National Savings Centre
Today I visited the national saving center G-9/2 branch in Islamabad. As soon as I entered the bank, the atmosphere traumatized me a lot. There were a lot of clients present, but there was no proper sitting arrangement. As summers are approaching, the temperature inside the bank was boiling. There […]
Nuclear powers and the politics of non-proliferation
In the post-Cold war era, one of the major foreign policy objectives of the great powers has become prevention of further nuclear proliferation and for the reason many nonproliferation frameworks are developed. During the Cold War era, the formation of Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968 with the aim to […]
Deforestation: An existential threat to the world
“FORESTS ARE THE WORLDS AIR- CONDITIONING SYSTEM, THE LUNGS OF THE PLANET AND WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF SWITCHING IT OFF”. Deforestation is cleaning Earth forests on a massive scale, resulting in damages to the quality of the land and our overall environment. Forests still cover about 30 percent […]
Corruption: The Root Cause of All Evils
The process by which a word or expression is changed from its original state to one regarded as debased or flawed. It comes from Latin-com, or “with, together,” and rumpere, meaning “to break”. It may include many activities like bribery, theft, fraud, extortion, blackmailing, abuse of discretion, clientelism, favoritism, nepotism […]
Terrorism and West’s Islamophobia
“The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people [is] convinced of the superiority of their culture and [is] obsessed with the inferiority of their power.” These are words of Samuel P. Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking […]
Free Will vs Fate
Everything you do and everything that happens to you occurs not through free choices you make but in fact it was written to happen that way. This is what we call fate. It seems like we are born free to choose, but it’s not like that it’s your fate that […]
Let’s not rush to make a wrong decision
Sitting with my laptop on, thinking how to get over this. I stand in front of the mirror. I stare at myself. I see what I’ve got and what I don’t. I look at myself the way I never did. I ask myself why do I need to settle for […]