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Identity as a Pretext of Terror: Brief Backgrounder of Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar
On April 18, 2019, at least 14 passengers were shot down by 15-20 militants after offloading 16 passengers from buses on Makran Coastal Highway in Ormara, Balochistan. Headed towards Gwadar…
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Identity as a Pretext of Terror: Brief Backgrounder of Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar
On April 18, 2019, at least 14 passengers were shot down by 15-20 militants after offloading 16 passengers from buses on Makran Coastal Highway in Ormara, Balochistan. Headed towards Gwadar…
Geopolitics of post-Bouteflika Algeria
After weeks of protest, Algeria’s octogenarian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika finally resigned on April 2nd. His departure from Algeria’s political landscape has opened up debates about the future trajectory the North…
Africa: Setting the Status quo
Chinese investment in Africa meandered ahead of the US since the turn of the new century. Interaction between China and Africa, conveniently enough, and reflecting on the Chinese induced narrative…
Clobbering of White Terror in Christchurch
If there was ever a lesson in postmodern attitudes converging onto a single moment in time, channelled through a technologically and culturally globalised world, it would have been the tragedy…
Rain on Relations, Drought on Diplomacy
Politics, whether be within or outside borders, has but one rule and which was crafted well in the sentence: ‘There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent…
Dispatch 4 – Dr. Tughral Yamin on Pakistan in the Age of Cyber Security
In the fourth episode of Experts' Dispatch, Associate Dean, Centre of International Peace and Stability, NUST, Dr. Tughral Yamin discusses the current state of cybersecurity in Pakistan and provides recommendations...