Awards for our doctors
The neglect to recognize the healthcare community in the recently announced ‘Pakistan Civil Awards’ has once again raised questions regarding the process of recognizing civilian heroes and if it's inclusive…
Taliban and the Kashmiris
More than 80 percent of the population in Afghanistan belongs to rural areas, living under the clutches of regional warlords, lacking basic education for everyone, not to talk of girls.…
Women and the Taliban
World attention remains focused on Afghanistan in the wake of US and Nato military withdrawal from the country. As foreign forces continue to leave, Taliban commanders have embarked on an…
Narrative warfare
THE battle of narratives is the least understood aspect of countering extremism and terrorism. Engaging primarily in hard approaches means states maintain a monopoly over countering extremism, with little input…
An impending disaster
No matter how hard one tries to obscure truth and reality, they ultimately establish their infallibility. The situation in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOK) since 1989, and unsuccessful Indian…
The American left rises
The energy was electrifying as US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders took the stage in front of 26,000 people in New York this fall. Armed with fresh endorsements from progressive House…
Duty to one’s country
Duty is what one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation. Recognizing a duty means a person theoretically commits himself to its fulfillment without considering one's…
The silence of the graveyard
The silence of the graveyard has descended over Indian-occupied Kashmir. Having illegally and unconstitutionally robbed Kashmir of its special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and reversed the…
The transported: Kashmiri prisoners sent far from home
One is a 19-year-old construction worker charged with aiding fighters against Indian troops, the other is one of occupied Kashmir’s most prominent lawyers, accused of being “an incorrigible secessionist”. Despite…
Israel and the US
The tail don’t wag the dog, and the US government was not somehow infiltrated and manipulated into supporting the capitalistic, ever-expansive, angry, and war-like successive governments in Israel, nor was…
