Af-Pak… Lessons in tenacity: Why Pakistan should learn from Turkey 4 Jan 202017 Jan 2020 Posted originally to The Express Tribune on 4 January 2020. When faced with the seemingly unyielding support of its ostensible NATO ‘partners’ for Kurdish secessionists in the Syrian-Turkish border regions,…
#Zionism… Saudi fragility makes Imran’s volte-face on Malaysia Summit more embarrassing 21 Dec 20193 Jan 2020 Posted originally to Express Tribune blogs on 21 December 2019. The flawed gains-and-losses calculus of Imran Khan’s PTI government recently produced what may well be the most aberrational and peculiar…
#Zionism… Will the Israel-GCC alliance prop up Hindu nationalist India? 17 Dec 201921 Dec 2019 Posted originally to American Herald Tribune on 17 December 2019. Indo-Israeli ties have always been deep and underscored by ideological affinity, with Israel even in the years prior to having…
#Zionism… Pakistan & the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 14 Dec 201917 Dec 2019 Co-authored with Mobeen Jafar Mir for Islamabad Policy Institute (IPI) on 13 December 2019. The upcoming ‘Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019’ going to be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre…
Af-Pak… Lacking direction: PTI’s Kashmir Policy 7 Dec 20196 Jan 2020 Posted originally to Strafasia on 7 December 2019. Does Imran Khan ignoring the letter of Syed Ali Geelani, veteran Kashmiri freedom icon, epitomize the PTI’s Kashmir policy? Is the PTI…
#Zionism… India’s Kashmir propaganda: A leaf out of Israel’s book 18 Nov 20194 Dec 2019 Posted originally to Express Tribune Blogs (Part 1 and Part 2). The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leading India is clearly fond of Israel, but India regardless of its ruling…
Geopolitics… 4D Chess by PTI standards: India’s Foreign Minister slams same ‘liberal media’ PTI keeps pandering to 22 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 'English-speaking liberal media biased, covered Kashmir unfairly - India's Foreign Minister' - 22 October 2019, RT A crude exhibition of the typical cheap brand of low-cunning possessed by Indian political…
Hindutvadi Extremism… Upcoming anti-Pakistan Congress hearing on Kashmir described as ‘achievement’ by pro-PTI media 21 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Another example exemplifying PTI's fruitless and futile pandering to the US system and its repeated, shoddy attempts to paint their efforts as yielding anything at all can be seen in…
Geopolitics… IoK’s annexation shows that PTI’s appeasement policy is a failure 9 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Did Pakistan really believe constantly making un-reciprocated peace gestures was going to make India's ruling BJP decide to not go ahead with the annexation of Indian-occupied Kashmir? i.e Something that has been…
Geopolitics… The Frankenstein monster that is PTI-era ‘patriotism’ and Imran’s failed Kashmir activism 22 Sep 20197 Dec 2019 I really need to get this out there. My thoughts on certain upsetting trends put into place at the worst possible time in history by the Imran Khan-led PTI government…
