Sankar Ray

The much fanfare with which the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi announced the 100-page long maiden National Security Policy 2022-2066 meets with both bouquets and brickbats.

The UP electoral battle is intensifying. The BJP is harping on a TINA factor and the opposition is gradually slipping to play on the BJP Hindutva pitch.

A disastrous spell as party chair and prime minister notwithstanding, reelection of 69-year old Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli as the chairman of Communist Party of Nepal –United Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) at the party’s 10th General Convention…

Afghanistan is now in a penumbra of bloody uncertainty which the Taliban 2.0 is too myopic and strategically incapable to overcome. As a result, Kabul, the capital of war-torn country, is fast turning into something utterly beyond…

TALIBAN-DRUG MAFIA NEXUS THRIVES IN SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTRY Amidst the awkward and disturbing coronavirus pandemic, Afghan farmers who gave up poppy cultivation in the southern province of Kandahar are feared to go back into poppy…

RECENT TERRORIST ATTACKS IN KABUL SHOW PEACE OPTIMISM IS PREMATURE AThe post-peace optimism halts before a politically nebulous terrains in the landlocked Afghanistan is multi-horned. And the manifestation is symbolic as well as…

VERMONT SENATOR IS COMMITTED TO EXPAND HIS SOCIALIST FOOTPRINT The apparently stunning Super Tuesday with buoyan cy in favour of Joe Biden notwithstanding, the sea-saw battle for the nomination of Democratic Party for the US presidential…

FAMOUS POET’S DAUGHTER REMOVES MISGIVINGS ON CONTROVERSIAL POEM The legendary Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz never-failingly ‘paved the way to lighten our pathways and act as a bridge between India and Pakistan. Recent events have only proved…

ONCE AGAIN, KASHMIRI SELF-DETERMINATION CALL FINDS GLOBAL EARS The Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi inspired the movement for right of Kashmiris for self-determination on 5 January 2020 in a crafty and diplomatic style, moving away…

GREAT SCIENTIST WAS SURPRISED AT MASSIVE RESPONSE TO HIS DISCOVERY One hundred years ago on 6 November 1919, the news desk of Times, London, was dazed, stupefied and delighted when the text of announcement from the joint meeting of the…