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On the brink of catastrophe
IT has now been 100 days of Taliban 2.0 rule in Afghanistan. But the situation there is far from stable.…
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Performance agreements — a new paradigm
The Prime Minister has signed performance agreements with 41 federal ministries to make them accountable during the remaining period of…
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Iraq — reasserting past prestige
History books depicting US events will now run parallels between 2021 images of Chris Donahue, the last American soldier to…
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Paradox of US politics in Afghanistan
The galvanisation of al-Qaeda and their orchestrated attacks — in Bali, US Embassy in Kenya, Europe, and New York’s World…
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Changing power dynamics of the region
For the last twenty years, the US has been the dominant world power. Its military muscle, economic largesse, and strategic…
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The birth of a new Afghanistan
August 15, 2021 will go down in the history of Afghanistan as a remarkable day when the Taliban regained power…
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Seniority isn’t the answer
An intriguing spectacle occupies my memories of the courtroom as a young and freshly-graduated lawyer. There’s a packed courtroom. Chairs…
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Sharing power at the local level
Murtaza Wahab, the senator from Pakistan Peoples Party, has been made the administrator of Karachi. Notwithstanding his desire to see…
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Taliban racial profiling and the US
The racial profiling of Taliban by US/Western dominated media, their local affiliates and the analyst community, with hardly any voice…
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The struggle is real
‘YOU can’t make enough milk.’ ‘You can’t possibly breastfeed, don’t you have to return to work?’ ‘You have to give…
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