Analysis
The Other Side of the Nuclear Coin
The advent of fission in 1938 – a process in which an atom, bombarded with neutron is split into two or more parts with the release of a large amount of energy – gave the […]
Environment
Analysis
Global Terrorism and COVID-19
Since the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, public attention has been diverted from many contemporary global issues and this pattern is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. This pandemic crisis, while gaining attention […]
Environment
Neither War nor Peace: Grey Zone Conflicts and Outer Space
Psychological warfare, treason of political systems, covert information operations are not new to International Relations where conflict and competition prevails all the time. However, rapid technological advancement has changed the nature of tactics and strategies. […]
Environment
When India Tested a Nuclear Device on Its Citizens
On May 18, 1974, India claimed that it had successfully tested a nuclear device, codenamed “Smiling Buddha” and became the sixth nation to have exploded a fission device. The test was conducted exactly four years […]
Environment
Rising Clouds on the Eastern Horizon
COVID-19 is an affliction that has engulfed the entire human race regardless of their affinity to a specific religion, language group, nationality or accord. All people, with sanity prevailing in their hearts, have been working […]
Environment
Biosecurity Planning & Preparedness – Pakistani Perspective
Biosecurity Planning & Preparedness – Pakistani Perspective Abstract Recent academic debate has seen an increased focus on biosafety, the implementation of which is essential as dual-use biological research increases day by day. Given the potential […]
Analysis
Coronavirus May Have Exposed India’s Economic Fault Lines
Coronavirus May Have Exposed India’s Economic Fault Lines The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has already exacted a devastating toll on the world economy in but a few months. Although developed countries have been shaken by the […]
Economy
Prejudice in the time of Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has evoked a spectrum of responses from humankind, ranging from display of pure moral and humanistic impulses to instances of crass tribalistic instincts. Overworked and fatigued doctors, nurses and health workers, showing […]
Economy
The COVID-19 and South Asian Politics
The COVID-19 and South Asian Politics The South Asian region, in the presence of two hostile nuclear neighbours, is going to witness a turning point of its history. The outbreak of coronavirus and its entry […]
Analysis
A Pandemic Changing the Contemporary Global Outlook
The new coronavirus has taken the entire world by storm, even though the world has not witnessed such an outbreak for the first time. There have been many others that have immensely struck the globe […]