In the contemporary information age, the significance of narrative power cannot be overstated
This representational image shows the glasses lens showing tabs on a computer screen displaying information and coding. — Unsplash/FileThe advent...
A Pakistani soldier stands guard near the Line of Control, a de facto border between India and Pakistan. — AFP/FileKashmiris living across the...
Thousands of Hollywood actors, including A-listers, went on strike last Friday after negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild-American...
The meeting of foreign ministers belonging to the G20 countries, held in India, ended without producing a consensus statement. It is the second...
India’s tax authorities raided the BBC’s offices in Mumbai and New Delhi last week. This incident may have forced the world to reluctantly wake...
The two-part BBC documentary titled ‘India: The Modi Question’ has caused quite a stir in India. The documentary tracks Indian Prime Minister...
An emotional and teary eyed Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, caught the world by surprise when she announced her resignation,...
The recently concluded daylong International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan, co-hosted by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and UN Secretary...
For many of the country’s Generation Z, they have never seen anything as devastating and horrendous as the ongoing floods. At the time of writing...
As much as some analysts would like to dismiss the cold war analogy to explain the current state of the world, the fact is that every development on...
As geopolitical realities continue to take a more tangible shape, the US-China rivalry is becoming a pronounced feature of the existing...
The year 2021 saw the world in turmoil, grappling with Covid-19-related challenges, overcoming supply-side disruptions, and dealing with the...
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.In my last piece, ‘Muslims and the media’...
A new report titled ‘British Media’s Coverage of Muslims and Islam ’ has explored how the British media portrays Muslims and Islam in its...
The 26th edition of the UN Climate Summit ‘COP26’concluded after reaching a pact among participating nations to stave off the challenge of...
The United Nations summit on climate change, known as COP26, a gathering of world leaders, government ministers, academics, climate activists, and...
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.By defeating archrival India and top-ranked New...
That the unipolar world order is struggling is underlined by an increased push for multipolarity. The challenges to the US-led global system emanate...
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.Over the last few months, the country was rocked by a...
The Pakistan-US relationship is one of the most consequential bilateral partnerships in the world. The state visit by Pakistan’s first PM Liaqat...
Weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan and formed an interim government, the global conversation on Afghanistan continues to focus on those...
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.With the installation of an interim Taliban cabinet,...
With Major General Chris Donahue, the commanding general of the 82nd airborne division having boarded the C-17 aircraft, the two-decade-old American...
Amidst the fraught situation currently prevailing in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s rather bloodless takeover of the country continues to dominate...
Kabul has fallen in a spectacular fashion and the sway of the Taliban over the whole of Afghanistan is complete. The sheer pace of the collapse of...
In my last piece published in this space , I spoke of the need for engaging in the battle of ideas as an expression of the country’s soft power.My...
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.The busting of India’s vast clandestine...
The manner in which the Taliban are making advances in Afghanistan has resulted in heightening diplomatic efforts to find some kind of a negotiated...
Attended by over 20 heads of states and governments, 500 political parties and organizations belonging to 160 plus countries and 10,000 party...
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.As the Biden Administration prepares to complete the...
From being a haphazard and sporadic activity, the phenomenon of fake news has been organized into a systematic campaign with an express aim to erode...
Freedom struggles around the world, principally in Palestine and Indian Occupied Kashmir, have been up against stiff challenges after the 9/11...
The Israeli brutality on the Palestinians spanning over 11 days was symptomatic of a larger pattern that has informed Israel’s forever war on...
As Israel goes ahead with its sordid plan of razing buildings in Palestinian territories through aerial bombardment, attacking worshippers in...
The visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Islamabad in April was the first such top-level engagement in almost a decade.The visit...
If at all any reminder of the Palestinians’ helplessness in the face of a brutal and inhuman apparatus was needed, it has come in the form of...
No other event in recent memory has been as consequential as the videotaped killing of 46-year-old George Floyd in May 2020 that spotlighted the...
Political commentators have long held that the Doha peace deal will not be able to survive the change of leadership in the White House following the...
Indian PM Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Bangladesh in late March, his first since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, was marred by violent...
The revival of the ceasefire agreement last February has set into motion a series of events on the Pakistan-India front that have created cautious...
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.The recently concluded two-day Islamabad Security...
The four-day tour of war-torn Iraq by Pope Francis is a significant event at several levels. Undertaken amidst serious security concerns and at the...
Amidst the massive national focus on the legal and political events in the run-up to the Senate elections, something of import happened on the...
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of SussexThe manner in which world leaders have handled the...
In less than three weeks since the inauguration, President Biden has moved fast to articulate the broad contours of his administration’s foreign...
