Table of Contents
Afghanistan
- Civil, war ‘in Afghanistan: Consequences for regional countries.
 - The present scenario in Afghanistan against the backdrop of the Soviet debacle
 - Afghan peace enigma: implications for Pakistan.
 
Armaments
- ‘The more developed a country, the more lethally it is armed.’
 - Role of armament manufacturers in destabilizing the thud-world countries
 - The dismemberment of Pakistan and its consequences.
 - Past and future perspective of the Nuclear Disarmament Talks
 
Balance of Power
- The Oil glut and its implications on balance of power.
 
Current International Issues
- Central Asia today: Emerging Political and Economic Patterns
 - The resurgence of Central Asia
 - Does not ‘might is right’ hold good even at the advent of the twenty-first century?
 - The genesis of the Iran-Iraq War and its repercussions on the two countries, and its effect on the whole region?
 - Apartheid.
 
Diplomacy
2011.Insanity in individuals is something rare but in groups, parties and nations it is the rule.
1972. Statesmen and Diplomatists.
Ethnic Cleansing
- The barbarity of ethnic cleansing
 - “Ethnic cleansing” of Bosnian Muslims, repression of Muslims in Occupied Kashmir and flushing out of Palestinians for a home for the Jews are an insult to human conscience in this enlightened age of science
 
Globalization
- Brexit means globalization is the rhetoric of the privileged, and capitalism will return ferociously as ever.
 - The world as a global village: Learning to live together.
 
Kashmir
- Mass Resistance in Occupied Kashmir: Options for Pakistan
 
Media
- The emerging power of social media: prospects and problems.
 - Free speech should have limitations.
 - Modern day communication via social networks puts an end of true and sincere relationships.
 - Truth is a rare commodity despite the freedom by the print and electronic media
 - Power of Media in the Modern World
 - Globalization and electronic media
 - The Press and the nation rise and fall together
 - Press Freedom and Responsibility.
 - For democracy to survive, let the Press suffer no curbs.
 - “Freedom of the Press”
 - Role of Press in the Third World.
 - Mass Media and Opinion formation.
 - Brain-washing
 
Modernization
- Modernity is an unending project.
 
Nuclearization
- Nuclear Weapons Are ‘not Only A Great Peril, But A Great Hope’
 - The danger of a nuclear war in the years to come
 - Pakistan’s Nuclear Programme: alternative scenarios.
 - ‘Nuclear Contamination” – Is the threat real or imaginary?
 - Nuclear Technology and the Third World.
 - The Nuclear Power Programme in Pakistan.
 
Nationalism
- Being a minority is a fate no one wants. Can nationalism be really inclusive?
 - The character of a nation can be judged by its symbolic narratives.
 - Patriotism
 - ‘Nationalism’ and ‘Super nationalism’ in Our Times.
 
Organizations
- The United Nations in the 21st Century: Obligations and Limitations.
 - The U.N.O has failed to measure up to the demands of its charter.
 - The future of UNO, Hopes, and Hurdles
 - The United Nations: its triumphs and failures since its inception.
 - WTO (World Trade Organization) and its implication for developing economies like Pakistan
 - 50 years of the UN: a critical evaluation.
 - ECO (Economic Co-operation Organization) an experiment in regional integration.
 - SAARC and the role of India.
 - The non-aligned movement.
 - South Asian Regional Co-operation – the emergence of a new power bloc.
 - The Role of the Third World in the United Nations;
 
Peace
- More and more International military engagements by the United Nations; is the world moving towards peace?
 - Are modern wars not holy wars?
 - Great nations win without fighting.
 - Can we prevent the Third World War?
 - Peace the essential message of our religion
 
Relations
- China – Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and it’s socio-economic implications for the region and the world.
 - Pakistan- Afghanistan relations: Post-Soviet withdrawal phase
 - Pakistan and the Muslim World.
 - Pakistan’s Response to the Changing Regional Situation.
 - Soviet-American Detente;
 - The Arabs versus Israel
 - Sino-American Relations
 - Sino-Soviet Differences
 
Sovereignty
- “The concept of national sovereignty is out of date”
 
Terrorism
- In the fight against terrorism and corruption, it is imperative not to compromise human rights and civil liberties.
2015: The War on terror has contributed to the growing abuse of human rights - Violence is the large refuge of the incompetent.
 - Dialogue is the best course to combat terrorism.
 - Pakistan’s War on terror and its impact on our psyche and politic.socio.economic fronts.
 - Terrorism as a new threat to the contemporary world
 - International crisis in terrorism
 - Liberation movements and terrorism
 
Third World
- “New World Order” Implications for Third World Countries
 - Growing debt problem of the Third-World
 - The plight of the Third World and the urgency of a new economic order
 - The Problems of Social, Economic and Political Development in the Third World
 
Treaties
- CTBT and its implications for Pakistan
 - Non-proliferation Treaty and Pakistan.
 
World
- Postmodern ethos – a challenge to the West.
2011.The time we live in is the winter of the world. - My proposals for a Peaceful World in the 1980s
 - Some fashionable Follies of the Modern World
 
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