Crackdown on migrants
In mid-March, Reuters reported that Mexico would “restrict movement on its southern border with Guatemala to help contain the spread of COVID-19.” The same article noted that the Joe Biden…
Wishful initiatives
“The political dimensions of the dispute between India and Pakistan have long been centre-stage. This is not a conflict frozen in time. It is a conflict that has robbed millions…
Ending the forever wars
House Democrats are leading a charge to repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force that President Bush used to invade Iraq in 2003, that Obama used for a…
Ticking bomb
Population stabilization needs to have a national call for action. The more than 200 million population continues to haunt the development of Pakistan. In 2018, the national policy attitude for…
An end to torture?
“That’s certainly our goal and our intention.” This was the non-committal answer given by White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, when, on February 12, she was asked by a reporter…
Misplaced priorities
It took barely a month into Joe Biden’s presidency for him to boot the US war machine back up, authorizing airstrikes on Syria on February 25. The administration claimed the…
The Ladakh compromise
This Valentine’s Day, China sent special white roses with a letter to India’s ‘glorious seven’ – Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh, Raksha Sachiv Ajay Kumar, Generalissimo Rawat, General Naravane, Lt-Gen Mohanty,…
To speak or not to speak
“SHOULD violence be suffered or vocalised?” wrote the now deceased Sadaf Zahra in January of this year. This was just one tweet from a long Twitter thread about domestic violence.…
A date with toxic alchemy
AUG 5 will mark a year since India’s annexation of Jammu and Kashmir was carried out with stealth and speed that left the opposition gaping at their shoestrings. It is…
Kashmir: an open wound
After the slaughter of millions of human lives as a result of World War I, the League of Nations was created on January 10,1920 to ensure international peace. Later, Lenin…
