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What Ails the Criminal Justice System of Pakistan? The criminal justice system of Pakistan comprises four main agencies: the police, the prosecution, the judiciary and the prisons; the first three agencies play ‘active’ role as enshrined in the law for the dispensation of justice while the fourth one plays a …

What’s Next for Afghanistan Amidst the looming Humanitarian Crisis The hapless Afghans are the victims of structural violence of the international community as they are facing the atrocities of global actors. More than half the country’s population of about 40 million is forced to live a miserable life just due …

Understanding the Biden Doctrine With the disintegration of the USSR and the first Gulf War ushered an era of the New World Order. It’s what redefined the US role in international affairs. The ideological notion of global governance in identifying, understanding and addressing worldwide problems underwent drastic changes along with …

THE CLASH OF CULTURES The political scientist Samuel Huntington’s famous thesis that the post-Cold War world would be defined by a clash of civilisations turned out to be off the mark. While there certainly is cleavage and conflict, the cause is a clash of cultures within civilisations. It is this …

Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians Decades of Israeli lies are finally being exposed Amnesty International joined, on 01 February, the New York-based Human Rights Watch, Jerusalem-based B’Tselem rights group B’Tselem and other leading human rights groups in stating that Israel’s “system of oppression and domination” over the Palestinians amounts to the …

America COMPETES Act US Girds for Tech Battle With China On February 04, the House of Representatives of the US Congress passed the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength (America COMPETES) Act of 2022 which provides $52 billion to encourage more semiconductor production in the …

HIJAB What does the Indian law say about it? Historically, it began in France in 1989 – usually referred to as l’affaire du voile (the veil affair) – when three female students were told by the principal of their high school in Creil, a suburb of Paris, that they could …

5 ALARMS FOR 2022 Important Excerpts from UN Secretary-General’s Speech Laying out his priorities for 2022, Secretary-General António Guterres, identified his priorities for 2022 in an address to the 193-member General Assembly as he began a second five-year term at the helm of the world body. In a wide-ranging speech, …

CONFLICTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST Globalization and the new wars Market liberalization, new communication technologies and the rapid movement of capital have made it easier for non-state actors to obtain power and profits when there is a decline in the state authority. With the Arab Spring, many authoritarian Arab states …

CHINA–RUSSIA NO-LIMITS ALLIANCE Shaping a polycentric world order Shaping a polycentric world order On February 04, amid the spectacle of the start of the Winter Olympics, Chinese President Xi Jinping offered solidarity to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, at a meeting in Beijing amid high tensions of the latter with …