A Voice of the Unheard Wednesday, August 26, 2026
The vitriolic debate between laïcité ridden reformers and religious traditionalists has intensified beyond mosques, churches and bistros into TV talk shows and live-streaming polemic. Apart from inter-civilizational discourse, the spillover effect has roiled the whole world into it, Pakistan being the latest victim. Arnold Toynbee’s 23 civilizations all have at some point concerned themselves with...
In 1919 Treaty of Versailles was heaped upon an already defeated and subjugated Germany after a devastating World War I. Its allies humiliated, its resources depleted and economy on its knees, Germany signed arguably one of the most ignominious peace deals in world politics. The terms were so brutal that the reparations included stallions, mares,...
When William Deresiewicz wrote his famous essay “Faux Friendships” in 2009, he could not have imagined its kinship to international relations. “Faux Friendship” was a bitter philosophical treatise swerving between Horatio and Facebook. China-Pakistan friendship has been hailed as ‘Higher than Himalayas and Deeper than Seas’. The former communist country has the lion share of...