Trump and Venezuela
Trump’s threats against Venezuela escalated recently from the economic to the military: after announcing sanctions he threatened that all military options were ‘on the table’. Trump’s actions were perfectly timed…
Duty towards refugees
President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order halting the resettlement of refugees in America and banning travelers from seven Islamic countries has raised concern not only among liberals, civil libertarians and…
Democracy in the dock
Authoritarian regimes in many countries often take decisions that prove to be disastrous for the political and economic well-being of millions of their citizens. In some instances, these decisions are…
Building walls and expelling refugees
The more progress humanity makes in terms of realising fundamental rights and liberties, and towards creating a more just and harmonious global society, the more forceful reaction is observed from…
Our national obligations on Pakistan Day
It has become a practice to write editorials and articles on Pakistan Day, every year, it is inevitable that much of what is written should have become cliched over the…
Refugee crisis
The continued presence of some 1.7 million registered and 1.3m unregistered Afghan refugees in Pakistan highlights the state’s inability to find a long-term solution to the refugee crisis. Recently, the…
Business of politics
The policy of reconciliation has been praised and denigrated in this country - praised as its promoters argue that it is designed to ensure the strengthening of democratic norms as…
Terminology matters
The recent decision by Al Jazeera English to use the word ’refugees’ instead of ’migrants’ to describe the thousands of people who risk their lives to make dangerous journeys to…
How to democratise the UN
As we approach the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, we’re moving further into a new century with many of the old, deficient institutions of the last century left untouched.…
Internationally disowned persons
Although the UN has acknowledged the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group in the Rakhine province of Burma (Myanmar), as ‘the most persecuted minority in the world’, yet the world community…
