Shortly before assuming office, the United States (US) President Joseph Biden Jr. nominated William Burns as the new Director of the US’ leading spy agency, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)….

COVID-19 has disrupted people’s lives and has forced governments around the world to take measures to contain the spread of the virus and prevent further deaths. Surprisingly, the virus revealed…

The phenomenon of social movements has pervaded over centuries and continues to be constituted as an important contour of domestic politics of nation-states, across the globe. Early scholarship on social…

The term post-truth became a buzzword when the Oxford English Dictionary declared it as their word of the year in 2016, referring to it as “circumstances in which objective facts are less…

In the mid of December, Kabul’s Deputy Governor and his assistant were assassinated in the capital by an improvised explosive device (IED). Subsequently, 13 Afghan police officers were killed during…

In the span of nine months, the states’ abilities to weather existential crises have been put to the test. Success in containing the COVID-19 pandemic has varied; in many cases,…

Key Points: For Pakistan, Afghanistan as a peaceful neighbour presents the prospects of regional connectivity and bilateral economic partnership, delineating economic and political dividends for both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan…

The recent six weeks war between Armenia and Azerbaijan started on September 27, 2020 and ended with a Russian-brokered peace deal on November 10, over the Nagorno Karabakh (NK) region….

Hinduism is “dharma” or a code of conduct; a disjoint from fundamentals is at the locus of its peculiarity. Its amorphism personifies its millennial survival and resilience. It is identified as one…

Key Points: Pakistan needs to proactively devise mechanisms to gear up with the transforming international political order. A foreign policy with an exemption of even one great power may lead…