Munir Uddin This light, smeared and spotted, this night‐bitten dawn This isn’t surely the dawn we waited for so eagerly These are lines taken from the poem “Dawn of Independence” written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz in 1947. These lines not only reflect the pain and pangs of partition but also call for a fresh introspection…
Hamza Wyne Decked out in the streets with hues of green and white are the frolicking people of Pakistan celebrating the day of independence when the new territory of Pakistan was chalked out on the world map. Traditionally, the day dawns with a roar of 31 gun salutes followed by official ceremonies of commemorations held…
Afghanistan is engulfed in chaos. The Taliban have defeated the Afghan Army and have captured Kabul. The Afghan armed forces surrendered, all it took was an announcement by the Taliban that they will pardon everyone if they do not resist. As Taliban were in Kabul, Ashraf Ghani fled to United Arab Emirates (UAE), leaving the…
Salman Sikandar As the Taliban dramatically takeover Afghanistan, it has vindicated the fact that for better or worse the world can only be changed through armed struggle. Our generation only saw in the documentaries or in history books, how revolutions used to overthrow regimes which seemed quite unbelievable until this very moment. Even though the…
Munir Uddin The withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan is likely to push the region into civil war just as it happened in the 1990s following the defeat of the USSR. The power vacuum created by the withdrawal of the US has given rise to power struggle in the region between different stakeholders—especially Afgan government…
The whole world is passing through severe crisis of Covid19. This is crisis of unprecedented nature but humanity will have to face even more severe crises in the future. This is the crisis of climate change. Due to global warming, droughts, cyclones and the incidents of wildfire are increasing rapidly. Heat waves directly kill humans…
