Principle of proportionality
The main purpose of international law is to foster justice, stability and peace globally, since international law regulates relations among nations and their citizens to provide them with enhanced protection…
Citizen refugees
ON Dec 15, at least six civilians were killed in a clash between Pakistani and Afghan border forces near their international border crossing at Chaman-Spin Boldak, the latest in a series of…
Climate policy
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. The newly created office will work towards ensuring environmental justice and civil rights…
Who owned the chemicals that blew up Beirut? No one will say
In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear — no one has ever publicly come…
It’s an opportunity
This was a good week for Pakistan. First, Modi made the faux pas of the decade by staying away from the Silk Road Summit; then India gave us an enormous…
Global efforts to curb tax avoidance
In the aftermath of the release of the "Paradise Papers", 200 delegates from 147 countries and jurisdictions met in Yaoundé, Cameroon recently for the 10th meeting of the Global Forum on…
Will COP26 deforestation pledge be game-changer or just more broken promises?
A new pledge by world leaders to halt deforestation by 2030 is likely to fail unless quickly backed by more funding, transparent monitoring and tough regulation of businesses and financiers…
The lawfare trap
We all know how nations conquer. Yes, though war – which conjures up images of machine gun fire, tanks, fighter jets, exploding bombs and devastated cities. Would you not be…
Kashmir in chains
“At midnight on Aug 4, 2019 India turned all of Kashmir into a giant prison camp. Seven million Kashmiris were barricaded in their homes, internet connections were cut and their…
Lawfare by Pakistan
Lawfare is defined as the theory and practice of the use of international law as an instrument to advance one's own interests. Orde Kittrie’s book on ‘Lawfare’ defines it as…
