The writer is Professor in the faculty of Liberal Arts at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
F or much of the past decade and a half, Viktor Orbán stood as one of Europe’s most dominant and polarising leaders, constructing not just...
T he state of Israel is often portrayed in simplified terms as a binary conflict between Jews and Arabs. Such a framing obscures the deeply...
A t recent forums, including the Antalya Diplomacy Forum , US Ambassador and Syria Envoy Tom Barrack argued that Western attempts to impose...
T he moment Donald Trump invoked the annihilation of a “civilisation” in reference to Iran did more than signal geopolitical...
E mpires are often imagined as vast swathes of land shaded on a map, but their true significance reaches far beyond geography. As the...
W ar with Iran may mark a turning point—not in the balance of power alone, but also in the slow disintegration of the West as a coherent...
T he transition between 2024 and 2026 from shadow warfare to open confrontation between Iran on one hand and Israel and the United States on...
M odern science, al-Attas observed, often studies the natural world purely in terms of empirical phenomena, treating nature as an object to...
T he passing of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas on March 8 marks the end of an era in modern Islamic intellectual history. For more than half a...
T he modern political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council states - Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman -...
P akistan has witnessed several variations of autocratic rule. Ayub Khan’s era was marked by controlled intra-elite transfer, sometimes...
P ower in autocratic systems has always had a curious dual character: it looks absolute while actually resting on a narrow, unstable...
S overeignty is one of the words that sound simple but actually define a very technical idea in political theory. The most plausible...
T he rise of empires has rarely puzzled historians; it is their decline that has generated deep and enduring reflection. Across cultures and...
P akistan has compelling reasons to be deeply concerned about the prospect of a US attack on Iran that results in the dismantling or severe...
W e are living through a loud age. The noise comes not only of wars and weapons, but also from certainties shouted across screens; identities...
T he terms history and her-story name not merely two ways of narrating the past, but also two different orientations toward knowledge, power...
I n a disturbingly short span of time, two cases of suicide at a local university in Lahore have jolted the public conscience and compelled a...
I n response to my column of last Sunday, Prof Shahid Imtiaz has offered a deeply sceptical, almost civilisational critique of contemporary...
Debates among political scientists and policy thinkers over whether dictatorship can be more effective than democracy in ethnically and...
