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Intentional! The role out of the invasion seems very deliberate and calculated. By no means the coinciding dates are/were an accident... what will transpire though... will eventually add any notoriety or sobriety to these remarks. Pakistan remains among the very few states that have...

Free will is only free in one's own mind... it's corporal enactment results in ramifications that do not (always) remain confined to the perpetrator. Fair enough. So back to the "oldest profession"... if free will caused a mutually agreed transaction, why then men be made to care about its...

Define emancipation... Trojan horse, disingenuous or naive... It obviates in fact obfuscates the role men play in the society ... Men are known to share a woman for a sum as long as the consequence of their copulation with opposite gender remain with her...(oldest profession, some say) Hadid...

Reparations! As in transfer of wealth, technology and infrastructure... Transfer of knowledge and key technologies to uplift the masses achieve parity(with Dutch themselves) in coming generations.

Khalaj the Turkic nomads that threaded the region from Turkiye to Pakistan. As Oghuz Turks speaking a proto-Turkic Arghu language, of course only now spoken in Iran and heavily Persianized and somewhat similar to Azeri... They ruled Central Asia, Khorasan, South Asia(Khalji) and of course west...

Dissonant and paradoxical! The state and society reflects an issue straight out Western Liberal Order and the attributes it brings... though set in an equally ambivalent and indifferent society, i.e. India. So how do they deal with it(when contextual basis and philosophy lies elsewhere)...

EU doesn't agree with you... neither U.S. for sale of Patriots and later F-35s. As a major ally and among the largest contributer to NATO it is curious why they would not get either technology or high end SAM's for their protection. Geopolitics for you! "Better reign in hell, than serve in...

There is no prerequisite of participation... a catalyst could be something otherwise benign. And yes U.S. can walk away and no it is not South Korea or Pakistan. It is currently the unanimous and thus far unchallenged super power of The world. However, if it does choose to do so, i.e. walk...

War is not, not going to happen because someone doesn't want it, like it, not ready for it or perhaps didn't budget for it. Quite the opposite, it is precisely going to happen because of these very things... Because someone wasn't ready, didn't budget for it or had an appetite greater than...

All threads that bound the post world war order seem to have given way one after another. A difficult but deliberate entente, the memories and wounds of previous conflict, ever greater weapons, precision and of course the economic impact have been the deterrents avoiding a larger conflict. That...

Hmm... spending over 2T in war effort and yet finding gratification in fleecing candy from a kid. Well, I guess it could finally be declared... a victory.

The finger that pulled the trigger was Indian... For one the other was an alien as much as the Brits themselves. The social structure that French and Brits obliged exists to this day! It need not be conquered, they are and shall remain so... it has been ingrained in their existence, a...

Clarity of mind... Clarity of thoughts... Clarity of goals! When do you realize who is them? Of course one cannot please everyone, but should you make it your cause? Or box it in... A storm in the teacup!!! Cut it down to it's size... don't grow smaller with it! Baloch nationalism seeks...

This is fundamentally an issue of governance and perceptions. Imagine, renaming all of Pakistan west of indus as Balochistan... it will create a void in identity that will be filled overtime... in perceptions. Remember it is the people who give objects meaning. In the era of nation state...

A typical knee-jerk response is fueled by jingoism and reactionary. A measured, studied and deliberated response is the need of the hour. One that has context, is grounded and comprehensive. Think!

Genie out of the bottle... Got bottle? Violence is the response when you lack structure. Lack of structure necessitates one! These people seek context and recognition ... state provides them that by deploying federal response. Break up the province and empower districts... empower people in...

Let the vessel dictate the shape... Or, As the vessel so the shape. The domestic actors are provided a pedestal by the state itself... when it federalizes an otherwise local... as current political set up of the state. Case in point in case of open Baloch agitation for example... If each was...

Corporations have been dictating, altering and in fact patronizing cultural practices for generations now. Arts and artists accede or submit to money and patronage. It is therefore them, the patrons, who control the gambit. The trickle and flow of how perverse, conforming or outrageous...

An exercise in exploring the matrix... Sapping energy of gathering the thoughts, a flawed synthesis and hence the result, though still cathartic ... not always intended and always imprecise. Intention, however is to do justice with the rendering, though constraints in recollecting all...

by Katharina Buchholz, Jan 19, 2022 Population The number of countries experiencing more deaths than births in a given year is steadily increasing. An analysis of U.N. data by the Federal Institute for Population Research out of Germany shows that the "natural balance" of births and deaths is...