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Oct 23, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Usman Masood |Mohamed Suliman
If you’re traveling in Pakistan, you’ll have come across long stretches of road that the locals call CPEC (pronounced see-pack, short for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor). In fact, you may hardly have to leave the CPEC during intercity travel.The average travel time between Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan’s two largest cities which are about 1,200 km apart, has dropped from 20 to about 13 hours, on what represents just one part of the 3,000-kilometer-long road.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Mustafa Caner |Usman Masood |Mohamed Suliman |Rod Such
The nature and extent of Iran’s involvement in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood have been the subject of divergent interpretations. Some argue that Iran played a direct role in the initiation of the conflict, while others suggest that Iran’s influence was more indirect, aiming to leverage the conflict for its geopolitical interests. As the war escalated, however, Iran’s impact on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict became more discernible. Iran has greatly improved its relations with Hamas in recent years.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Ezgi Yaramanoglu |Usman Masood |Mohamed Suliman |Rod Such
The journey of the veil transcends time. From its depiction in French couture to a resurgence in 1990s fashion trends, the veil’s versatility continues unabated. Amidst ever-changing cultural norms, it remains a reflection of identity. From ancient Greece to the present day, the veil reflects the history of mankind. The veil has a history going back thousands of years and is intricately woven into the cultural fabric of Europe.
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
pakistantoday.com.pk | Usman Masood
The complexity in the embeddedness of the economic within the political (or vice versa?) and an economist’s ordeals in steering clear of value judgements in what is essentially a social science, is captured succinctly in Lionel Robbins’s works.
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Jun 7, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Usman Masood |Ariel Gonzalez Levaggi
Six hundred delegates from 49 countries across the globe take part in the Shangri-La Security Dialogue each year, where security officials discuss issues which they can’t talk about due to diplomatic considerations. The importance of the dialogue lies in the number of bilateral and multilateral military meetings held on its sidelines, as well as dialogue sessions and speeches given by defense ministers.
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May 31, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Usman Masood |Ali Burak Daricili |Dilara Aslan Özer |BookTalkBy Dilara Ozer
As late as last year, to claim that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could have some kind of consciousness – a kind of “I” of its own – was a sacrilege even among AI scientists. How could one attribute such a sublime human characteristic to a machine essentially relying on a few calculations, programed to respond on the basis of a few patterns in data.
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May 29, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Usman Masood |Ariel Gonzalez Levaggi
Who is Xi Jinping? Although he came to power a decade ago, he remains an enigmatic leader who is often approached as a dictator in Western publications. His unprecedented power has been unmatched since Mao Zedong. Sinologist Kerry Brown, professor at King’s College and associate fellow at the Asia-Pacific program at Chatham House, helps dispel some of the enigma as Xi: A Study in Power comes as an easy-to-read primer on this influential leader.
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Apr 10, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Usman Masood |Dilek Kütük |Cengiz Algan |Nour Naim
The establishment—both local and global—had had enough. A vote of no confidence was called, and the PTI’s coalition partners spontaneously pulled back their support en bloc, amidst cries of foul play from Khan. The two major rival parties—the PMLN and the PPP—which had been each other’s fierce opponents for the last three decades, united under the banner of the new Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), attracting small parties that had deserted Khan in favor of the new coalition.
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Apr 5, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Nour Naim |IMRAN KHAN |Usman Masood |Ali Lmrabet
Throughout history, misinformation was a powerful weapon in the hands of people who fought to maximize their interests. Atrocity fabrication—the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary without knowledge that they ever occurred—has a centuries-long history at the heart of propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public and international opinion.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
politicstoday.org | Kemal Inat |IMRAN KHAN |Usman Masood |Ali Lmrabet
Will the election results affect Turkish foreign policyTayyip Erdoğan is a politician determined to maintain the multidimensional foreign policy approach Turkey has practiced so far, while his opponent Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is expected to rebuild the old style of relations between Turkey and the West.
