Author name: Mario de Gasperi

The founding father of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah had envisioned a country, though based on Islam, to be pluralistic in its ethos accepting believers of other religions such as Christians, Hindus, Parsis and Sikhs. Undeniably, the white patch in the Pakistani flag symbolizes the nation’s religious minority communities. 1 Jinnah, on the occasion of his […]

In a startling revelation on his YouTube channel, Sedat Peker, 49, a drug lord originally from Turkey but now living in exile in Dubai, exposed the well entrenched nexus between Turkish politicians and the mafia, both within and outside the country. His YouTube channel has so far released eight videos accusing the country’s former and

There are many aspects that characterize global politics today – from suffering a pandemic allegedly generated by a deadly virus that artificially emerged in a lab, an ambitious military rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region to grab natural resources and convert atolls into military bases, to expansionist policies leading to hotly contested territorial disputes, illegal supply

In what seems like a series of missed opportunities to disband radical groups, Pakistan at every step of its evolution, let the Islamic outfit Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan(TLP), founded by Khadim Hussain Rizvi grow in scope and exercise clout on all matters of religious and even political significance. Over a period of time, it isn’t surprising to

Bangladesh is celebrating 50 glorious years of its independence and the month of March is significant in the valiant struggle that then people of East Pakistan waged against the Pakistani Army.   March 25 holds special significance being commemorated as the Genocide Day as on this day 50 years back Pakistan Army launched ‘Operation Searchlight’ resulting