Publications

A new round of quiet diplomacy took place between Pakistan and India amidst various regional developments. While the backchannel diplomacy offers a silver lining to two nuclear-armed antagonists to mend strained bilateral ties, it can be a well-calculated trap to undermine Pakistan’s principal stance...

In a surprising and rare joint statement, Indian and Pakistani militaries, on February 25, 2021 announced “strict observance of all agreements, understandings and cease firing along the Line of Control (LoC) and all other sectors”. This announcement made after talks between Director Generals of...

The new US administration of President Joe Biden has a significant bearing on global affairs, and South Asia, therefore, is not an exception. There are predictions that President Biden would strike a balance in US foreign policy and reverse many decisions taken during the...

Europe is witnessing a sharp spike in Islamophobic incidents. The situation gets worse by the fact that there exists a deplorable absence of acknowledgment about the pervasive Islamophobia in Europe. The populist leaders, right-wing political parties, and conservative writers are in cahoots with the...

In a surprise announcement, on the Kashmir Solidarity Day, Prime Minister Imran Khan offered option of independence to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, after they accede to Pakistan in a United Nations supervised referendum. This, however, is not the first time that Mr....

Kashmir Solidarity Day is an occasion to commemorate the struggle of the people of Kashmir for their right to self-determination. The Kashmir dispute is one of the oldest and unresolved agenda items pending with the United Nations (UN). The present situation demands the urgent...

Whenever a Muslim person is gunned down, or killed in an apparent anti-Islamic act, various deceptive terms such as ‘racist killing’, are used by the media to divert attention from the surging Islamophobia across Europe. It was on display in the aftermath of the...

International migration in the globalized world is a highly complex phenomenon. The involvement of national and international organizations and a web of policies on international migration has delivered to us the highly regulated practical side of international migration. Modern-day migration has a diverse classification...

After taking charge as the president of the United States (US) in 2017, Donald Trump began focusing upon ending American military entanglements around the globe. After all, this was one of the major slogans of his election campaign that helped him to ascend to...

Machh attack in Balochistan, whose responsibility was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), once again underscored the fact that the war against terrorism in Pakistan, is far from over. Threats posed by the presence of ISIS in Pakistan calls for...