Category: Region
Iran’s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led by Women
Robin Wright in The New Yorker: The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin’ brave,…
Why Policing is and Will Continue to Remain Political in Pakistan
Because policing has been treated as a project of political ordering and disordering, it allows…
Sri Lanka: Three Top State Institutions Merged
COLOMBO TIMES Reports: An extraordinary gazette notification has been issued bringing the Department for Registration…
Was Bajwa’s Advice Reason for Imran Khan Moving Out of PM House?
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa had already warned former prime minister…
Africa’s Century of Growth?
On Morten Jerven’s The Wealth and Poverty of African States (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Review…
Why Iranian Women are Risking Everything By Burning Their Hijabs
Jonathan Guyer in Vox: It was not an isolated incident of police violence in Iran. But…
Did a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War?
After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as…
LISTEN: Delhi Jama Masjid Imam’s Khutba in Sep. 2019
BLAST FROM THE PAST: An excerpt from Delhi Jama Masjid Imam’s khutba (speech) in Sep….
Ascent of I2U2: Acronym for USA, UAE, Israel, India
The Under Secretary of United States State Dept. on Tuesday Sep 20 convened I2U2 counterparts…
Africa is Not a Country. Shift Your Understanding.
Africa is a region of 1.4 billion people and over 2,000 languages. News, entertainment, and…
Sep 2019: A Chat on Pakistan Affairs in Urdu (VIDEO)
Blast from the past (Sept. 2019): Some young ones visited me in Islamabad. They asked…
Catastrophic Floods in Pakistan Cause Damages North of $40Bn. UN Chief Asks Developed World to ‘Lower Temperature’.
“Decades of intransigence by big emitters”, particularly Group of 20 members behind climate crisis, according…