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It was winter 1989, when people of East Berlin gathered before the Berlin Wall shouted a slogan “Tor auf” (open the gate!). A time when world wake up to a fact of weak Soviet stranglehold over the Eastern bloc....

Maria Rashid ends her own significant and detailed study of militarism in Pakistan with an expectation to steer a new debate among academia. In her Book titled “Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the...

In contemporary times, Europe has been under the cloud cover of Islamophobia since the 9/11 attack, which instigated resentment, prejudice, and fear in western society against the Muslims. Since 9/11 religion has been widely exploited by various religion-oriented groups...

Ever since the decline of the cold war, the US tries to maintain its hegemony. This is a zero-sum approach, that is meant to deny any country as a rival of the US, but soon in the American estimation,...

Trumpism leaves the office along with its pioneer Donald Trump after the November 2020 Presidential elections in the United States. As per Results, the five years rule of populism is no more, along with many ambiguities in domestic and...

The Jinnah Antarctic Station (JAS) is an Antarctic scientific research station operated by the Pakistan Antarctic Programme. It is located near the Sør Rondane Mountains, Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica. Antarctica is earth's southernmost continent that contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of...

After WWII, the world especially colonial powers were on verge of collapse. The intensified great depression hit hard financial institutes and trade shattered badly due to circulating debts. Meanwhile, American and British policymakers began to plan the post-war, liberal...

A plenary session of FATF was recently conducted from 21st Oct 2020 to 23rd Oct 2020. This session was very significant for Pakistan due to two reasons. The first reason was that Pakistan has been on the “Grey List” for the...

The world is suffering from a global crisis. We all are in lockdown and missing the old "Normal" world. It is shocking that the world after this pandemic will be a different world economically, socially, politically, and culturally. One...

In International power politics, the rise of one lead to the downfall of the other, showing that a shift of power is inevitable. The one who possesses power is destined to make rules for its interests and if needed...