For decades, nations plagued by terrorism and political instability, such as Pakistan, have tried to project a ‘soft image’ to the world.
Updated30 Mar, 202510:29am
The BLA’s historical trajectory, its ideological mutations and its potential role in an impending regional conflict need to be reckoned with.
Updated23 Mar, 202510:10am
In an age where historical narratives are increasingly weaponised and distorted to serve contemporary agendas, are we erasing the past instead of learning from it?
Published16 Mar, 202506:33am
Cricket’s greatest captains have always harboured the ability to galvanise their teams when the odds seemed to be against them.
Updated09 Mar, 202510:26am
History has shown that transgressions by and against the state, when left unpunished, tend to resurface with greater intensity.
Published02 Mar, 202506:12am
With the resurgence of populism, electoral authoritarianism and new economic conflict, is liberal democracy now eating its own tail?
Published16 Feb, 202506:13am
Tech advancements come with the notion that they're liberating people from old forms of capitalism. But are people being duped and led towards an authoritarian techno-capitalist future?
Updated09 Feb, 202509:37am
Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately only aid the political aims of ultra-nationalism.
Updated02 Feb, 202510:10am
As the far-right gains momentum across the West, Western academics long fixated on ‘fragile democracies’ in the Global South are now grappling with the cracks emerging within their own democracies.
Published26 Jan, 202506:55am
Populism thrives as a political style rather than a concrete ideology, merging theatrics and emotional appeal to captivate the masses.
Published19 Jan, 202507:37am
As youth-driven activism links consumption with ethics, many local alternatives are thriving by aligning themselves with progressive causes.
Published12 Jan, 202507:06am
The notion that the West has tried to impose Westernisation and secularism in Muslim regions in the past few decades is largely flawed.
Published22 Dec, 202407:08am
Across history, political parties have had to learn to balance their incipient ideology with pragmatism in order to ensure mainstream appeal and survival.
Published08 Dec, 202406:55am
Instead of safeguarding nationalism from those operating from outside its paradigm, has religious nationalism become a launching pad for theocrats?
Updated01 Dec, 202410:06am
Across history, politicians and statesmen have often found inspiration and political strategies in books. However, the age of "leader-readers" now seems to be at an end.
Published24 Nov, 202407:46am
Since the inception of Pakistan, Islamic modernists such as Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan have had their ideas selectively reinterpreted by the state.
Published17 Nov, 202409:15am
