Pashtoon Tahafuz Movement: A rights movement or a new regional agenda Ahmed Khan, (not his original name) waits in his car behind a long line of other vehicles, for his turn to be checked. He can spot army soldiers with …
Economic Survey Report for 17-18: CSS Pakistan Affairs The Finance Ministry of Pakistan has launched the Pakistan Economic Survey 2017-18, which claims that Pakistan has made great strides in reducing its macroeconomic vulnerability in the recent years and, achieved the …
Asian Majorities acting like Insecure Minorities- CSS Pakistan Affairs IT IS an unlikely weapon: a scuffed but sturdy Samsonite briefcase, sitting on a desk in a big house in a spacious garden in a prosperous suburb of Colombo, the capital …
Authoritarianism in world, Will Pakistan follow? CSS Political Science The twenty first century has seen the rise of authoritarian governments throughout the world. Western countries and West dominated International organizations have always emphasized on the virtues of liberal democracy but …
Is Pakistan loosing battle for its soul? CSS Pakistan Affairs This story perhaps describes best what’s happening in Pakistan today A grandfather tells his grandson there are two wolves inside us, always at war with each other. One is a …
Urbanization in Pakistan- CSS Pakistan Affairs Urbanization can be defined as the increase in population in urban areas rather than rural areas. Urbanization results from three different and not always related processes. (CSS Pakistan Affairs) a) natural increase in urban …
Polarization in Pakistan Media: Personal clashes or just business? CSS General Knowledge Many will agree with me that perhaps the biggest problem with Pakistani media today is its sharply polarized nature. The split between Geo, Jang group, Dunya and Dawn …
Pakistan and looming threat of Hybrid Warfare- CSS Pakistan Affairs The adversaries have been successfully operating hybrid warfare techniques to bleed Pakistan. They failed to coerce or frighten Islamabad with their conventional and nuclear weapons mighty arsenals. They are making …
Debunking the myth of Greater Baluchistan- CSS Pakistan Affairs One of the comments in the thread that followed my earlier article on GVS “The U.S. Deep State Recklessly Edging towards Balkanization of Pakistan” regrettably hinted at an awfully sad reality: the …
Fixing Pakistan’s sectarian fault lines- CSS Pakistan Affairs Pakistan’s Bold Response to Sectarianism? A few days before Muharram, grand proclamations advocating peace and calm that suggested people shun their religious, sectarian and ethnic biases “to promote the great characteristics of …