by A. G. Noorani* *The author is an eminent Indian scholar and expert on constitutional issues. No two persons could have been more dissimilar than Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British Viceroy and Governor-General of India. He realised soon after his arrival in India that Jinnah held the key to […]
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by Ozer Khalid* *The author is a Senior Consultant, Geo-Strategist, Development Sector Specialist and International Writer. He can be reached on [email protected] or Twitter followed on @ozerkhalid Abstract (This paper amply illustrates that the “smallest” of IS returnees present the “biggest” of problems… ISIS attracted an uncharacteristically high number of foreign fighters, many of whom
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by Sahar Pirzada* *The author is an editor of the journal and an educationist. Abstract If society is to avoid all the evils and shortcomings of democracy as outlined by Socrates, Plato, Marx; if a democracy’s mismanagement has led to income disparities, class stratification and conflict; if its shortcomings have resulted in educational deprivation and
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by Yasser Latif Hamdani* *The author is a practicing lawyer based in Lahore. He is also the author of the book, “Jinnah; Myth or Reality.” His email address is [email protected]. Abstract Our challenges emerge from our inability to think clearly about the raison d’etre of Pakistan and, furthermore, to accommodate within the nation state framework,
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Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal TI(M)* *The author is a retired Air Commodore of Pakistan Air Force and its former Assistant Chief of Air Staff. He is the founding Chairperson of the online think tank, Pakistan Focus. Abstract Conceptually, connectivity and integration (collectively Connectegration) are not confined to building roads, rails, air links or ports;
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The March 4, 2018 attack on Sergie Skripal, a former Russian spy, and his daughter, Yulia, has resulted in an escalation of tension between London and Moscow and, as a result, an equally intensive diplomatic offensive. UK’s Prime Minister, Theresa May, stated that it was “highly likely” that Russia was involved in this attack and
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