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War and religion

Pope Urban II initiated the two centuries long "holy wars" in 1095. The Crusades that he labeled as "God's will" (Deus vult)...

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Instability in Hormuz and our economic challenges

Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, particularly involving Iran, the United States and Israel, have once again brought the Strait of Hormuz into...

20.03.2026 60

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Being and Becoming

Modern cosmology often presents itself as the most triumphant extension of physics: a discipline that has traced the history of the universe from...

19.02.2026 20

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Cosmology and God

Cosmology is a grand science; it takes our imagination into the vast depths of the Universe. The Universe is so big that we cannot, in principle, see...

07.02.2026 20

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Geopolitical cauldron

If anyone was thinking that global matters were improving in terms of peace or prosperity, it's time to take the shocker — humanity is creeping...

10.01.2026 70

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Reality and Philosophy of Electromagnetism

So many phenomena, we experience in everyday life are such that they have no material existence. Gravity is one such phenomenon, which is a...

31.12.2025 50

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Venezuela — the next war front

Ex-Noble Peace Prize-aspirant President Donald Trump has recently been busy igniting a new direct war across the Caribbean, with Venezuela. The...

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Geo-strategic calculus of Pakistan and India

Now the Modi administration wants Sindoor 2.0 so that both misadventures can be cremated in a single pyre. Meanwhile, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath...

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Mind or AI — who will rule?

In recent years, a growing number of leading AI experts have drawn striking parallels between artificial neural networks and the human brain,...

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The Russian mind

Like all great civilisations, Russia has evolved through a long history of political thought. At the end of Imperial Russia, along with the ideas of...

31.10.2025 50

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Gaza war - winning and losing

The upright never defeat evil, but they pretty much expose it. But evil, when exposed, even when drenched in ignominy, raises itself from its lewd...

19.10.2025 50

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Trump's Gaza peace plan

Almost like in brazen vengefulness, Israel has been obliterating all international norms with illegal acts, such as waves of assassinations in other...

03.10.2025 50

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Iqbal's Saqi Nama

Re-reading Iqbal, the philosopher-poet of the Urdu and Persian tongue, is not only a pleasure, but also an act nurturing a fear, that of lilting the...

20.09.2025 30

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SCO — Elephant and Dragon

The SCO Summit ended with a joint declaration condemning Jaffar Express, Khuzdar and Pahalgam terrorist attacks. China and Russia went one step...

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Drop scene at Alaska

Alaska has certainly been a pinnacle of political drama. American President Donald Trump announced a meet-up with President Vladimir Putin of Russia,...

23.08.2025 30

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India in wrong boat — again

In 1991, Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, initiating economic liberalisation in India, geared the country away from decades-long socialist ideals to the...

09.08.2025 70

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Gaza, Israel and the infinite game

It's been one year and nine months since the outbreak of the Gaza War; 77 years and two months since the occupation of Palestinian lands by the...

25.07.2025 50

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Infinity and God

The idea of infinity is awe-inspiring. With a mere thought it pushes us to the limits of our imagination, only to find out that neither the number nor...

12.07.2025 40

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12-day war

If we take a step backwards and look at the United States' general strategic design over the decades, post-WWII, we find it unconcerned with winning...

28.06.2025 60

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Eid and Gaza

Every day when you open the news, Israel has killed 30, 40 or 50 more Palestinians in Gaza. The death toll has risen to 54,500. The UN has warned that...

14.06.2025 30

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The problem of evil — and the Quran

If God is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent, how does He allow the existence of 'evil', such as suffering, natural disaster, sin...

31.05.2025 60

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Pahalgam and the exporter of terror

Reportedly, 1,600 civilians and security personnel were killed across Pakistan in 2024, and the trend is fiercely continuing in 2025. Balochistan and...

17.05.2025 40

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Rethinking geopolitics: how the world looks from the East

The prevailing literature on geopolitics is, in large part, an echo of how the world appears through the lens of the West. This dominant perspective...

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Geopolitical cataclysm

Three years into the Ukraine War and one and a half years into the Gaza War, geopolitical chaos and uncertainty has only quadrupled. Peace is evasive...

19.04.2025 80

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