Dr Ejaz Hussain
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Berkeley, CA, United States
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Are the Chinese safe in Pakistan?
In the wake of the terror attack on the PC Hotel in Gwadar, the Chinese media and commercial circles seem concerned regarding the state of security in Balochistan which is witnessing the firth wave of Baloch insurgency. Though the Chinese government and the state media showed restraint in terms of adherence to bilateral cordiality and … → Read More
PTM versus the Military: the way forward
Pakistan faced immense challenges related to state formation and, in this respect, the country’s northwestern region, i.e. FATA, proved a herculean task. Indeed, the pro-Bacha Khan Pashtuns and their supporters in Afghanistan disapproved of the idea of a state being governed by the non-Pashtuns, i.e. Mohajirs and Punjabis. Moreover, the Pashtuns, by and large, have … → Read More
Imran Khan's China visit: Prospects and Challenges
Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is touring regional countries these days. He was in Iran a few days ago and now is heading to neighbouring China for the second time since he assumed premiership. PM Khan made to Beijing in November last year where he met with China’s President Xi Jinping; he along with the … → Read More
India-Pakistan at the brink of fifth war
There is no dearth of social media trolls on both of the boarder that are, officially or informally, fighting what they have arbitrarily dubbed the “fifth generation war”. Perhaps these social (media) soldiers will now have to upgrade the level of warfare because India and Pakistan are literally, not virtually, at the brink of fighting … → Read More
Kartarpur: corridor of cooperation
Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, laid the foundation of Kartarpur —currently located in District Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan — in 1522 and, over centuries, the place has assumed immense significance for the Sikh nation living in India and Pakistan and, as a diasporic community, all over the world. Since Partition of British India … → Read More
Elections 2018: areas that need improvement
The much-hyped general elections 2018 are finally over. In its wake, it has left the data necessary for the critical assessment of the exercise. Talking of the positives, the topmost is they were held at all because many an analyst and media pundit propagated about its postponement if not an outright cancellation. It is, thus, … → Read More
Pashtun identity and geo politics
The US and its NATO allies have been fighting a protracted and presumptive warfare in Afghanistan since 9/11. Though the vast array of existing literature has significantly highlighted the material conditions of the war-stricken people of Southwest Asia especially Afghanistan and Pakistan, identitarian conception and concern of the majoritarian Pashtuns have been abysmally overlooked, both … → Read More
Will the Sharifs survive the current crisis?
Four months ago, in these pages, I argued, “in the coming months, it is the PML-N that will either reconcile or lose. If it confronts the army in particular and the judiciary in general, the party will be over. We would then be discussing pros and cons of martial law regime.” The PML-N especially Maryam … → Read More
The chances of martial law
In recent weeks, interesting but competing statements by the PML-N, the army, the opposition and the public on the (im)possibility of martial law consumed much of the prime time. The N-league led by Maryam Nawaz was and is going confrontational vis-à-vis the judiciary and, indirectly, the army. Indeed, the day after Shahbaz Sharif and his … → Read More
Failure of our foreign policy
Foreign policy analysis has emerged as a sub-discipline within International Relations, where scholars of the field conduct theory-guided empirical analysis of the subject at different levels, ie state, group, individual. The core area of focus and analysis is human behaviour which probably is the most difficult and challenging entity on account of its oscillatory characteristics. Nevertheless,… → Read More
Civil-military relations post-Dawn Leaks
On May 10, the Dawn Leaks controversy came to an end when the DG-ISPR, Major General Asif Ghafoor, while briefing the media, said, "our press release wasn't against any specific individual or institution. The tweet was posted against incomplete recommendations. It, unfortunately, pitted the army and civilian government against each other which should have been avoided. Recommendations as… → Read More
Pakistan: between crisis and coup
Civil-military relations in Pakistan have always been a hot topic for general discussion and, in cases, academic inquiry. It is a sad fact the majority of the people, especially our televangelists know little about the subject theoretically and empirically. Even the local scholarship on the subject is mostly polemical and biased to either side of the equation, those who pondered over and… → Read More
To CM Punjab, from the neglected
Mohsin Ali, who topped the BA examination in 2012 as a private candidate, surprised almost everyone. Mohsin's hallmark was commendable. The education message got a wider audience on account of massive media coverage he received. It is quite pleasing when such bright youth occasionally remind the socioeconomically deprived people of Pakistan, in general, and those of his surroundings, in… → Read More
There is life after Panama
The Supreme Court has given its long awaited ruling in the Panama Papers case yesterday. The five-member bench passed a 3-2 verdict calling for the establishment of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe those tricky and tough questions that the Apex court found hard to address after lengthy deliberations lasting half a year. The proposed JIT would consist of representatives from the FIA,… → Read More
Convergence of interests needed in Balochistan
Balochistan has been in limelight for a variety of reasons. On the one hand, the province has experienced five insurgencies and consequent paramilitary operations and, on the other, it has lately received extraordinary official attention in context of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Though the province faces multifaceted problems such as illiteracy, poverty, and lack of… → Read More
Politics of military courts
Whenever I would read a text that suggested Pakistani politicians were incompetent, corrupt and short-sighted, I tended to disregard it considering such a perspective to be part of a conspiracy of extra-parliamentary forces against our noble and visionary politicians and democratic political parties. However, my doctoral research has dawned on me the lingering dilemma of Pakistan’s democracy… → Read More
Pakistan and the ‘Islamic NATO’
Mohammad bin Qasim’s conquest of Sindh often finds its way into school and college textbooks, which talk at length about its impact on the spread of Islam across South Asia. It, thus, seemed natural to demand a separate country in the name of Islam in 1947. Soon after gaining independence, Pakistan became Islamic with the passage of the Objectives Resolution in 1949. Its first constitution also… → Read More
Book Review: Raza Rumi Hopeful of Pakistan’s Democratic Future
Rumi is right to expose fractions in the bilateral relations between the US and Pakistan from 2008 onwards. → Read More
Let the courts decide
Discussing religion and politics has become a part of our culture whenever Pakistanis find an opportunity. Ironically, most of the participants either lack an academic understating of the subject or possess ad hoc information coming from multiple sources such as tradition, social norms, and nowadays, (social) media. The majority believes whatever they know about. For example, politics is… → Read More
Politics of PSL
Cricket is a public passion in the width and breath of Pakistan. Despite field hockey being our national sports, cricket has successfully captured popular perception and international patronage. We can rightfully take pride in our cricket’s history which holds one world cup win along with host of other achievements in all three formats of the game. I still recall my days in FC College when we… → Read More