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COVID-19 onset has questioned the proclaimed notions of Globalization such as shared prosperity and security across the board. The ongoing pandemic once again calls for collective action in men and material terms rather than erecting technology barriers and doubting the intentions of each other. This paper aims to address the following inter-related queries: What is the nature of China's health-based assistance to the South Asian states for mitigating the COVID-19 risks? How and why do the United States and India remain skeptical of Chinese anti COVID- 19 Vaccine efforts? And how do other South Asian states perceive Chinese contributions to deal with the ongoing Pandemic? And, finally what lessons can be learned from this divergent debate centered on: Chinese Vaccine Diplomacy? Comparison and contrast of the available information is employed as an analytical technique to determine the nature of skepticism surrounding the Chinese vaccination campaign in South Asia. Consulting data on three various accounts assisted to conclude the findings of this research paper. The findings of this study establish that Western and Indian skepticism, directed against Chinese health diplomacy in South Asia is motivated by their geopolitical contestations with China. In nutshell, the paper's main thrust is to stress the essential value of mutual cooperation in dealing with the Pandemic like COVID-19. There is a need to embrace the concept of 'holistic security' in the highly interconnected world of today and tomorrow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Post-9/11 terrorism in Pakistan proved to be a complex and multifaceted challenge. A distinguished feature of this violent campaign is its religious orientation. While tracing the causes, the role of Islam as a faith and practice is generally debated. Hence, dominant discourse about this terror campaign revolves around the religious concept of jihad through which militants justify their violence. Since the challenge is multifaceted, the causes of this violence are also diverse but as the militancy intensified over the years, the discourse of religious militancy over-shadowed other factors and constructed a violent image of Islam and jihad as a source of indiscriminate violence. This study draws upon the insights provided by the field of critical terrorism studies and employs the deconstructivism approach to examine this dominant discourse of 'religious' militancy in Pakistan, the concept of jihad. This critical analysis would help to understand and deconstruct the dominant discourse of post-9/11 militancy in Pakistan in the light of both primary and secondary sources of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Media plays an important role in making and shaping of public opinion across the states and societies. The media debates regarding jihad and Islam, following the events of 9/11, introduced Islam at the world stage as a violent faith. The worldwide media discourse of 'Islamic' militancy identified the concept of jihad as a source of extremism and terrorism across the world. In media debates, Islam, jihad and terrorism have since been generally discussed and projected as singular phenomena. Research into the phenomenon proves quite the contrary to the common perceptions framed in the media. In the context of media framing, this paper employed the secondary data analysis to study the role of media in construction of image of Islam and Muslims with militancy. This study finds that the concept of jihad is also abused by the terrorists as well who used the media platform to express their violent ideology with religious references. The study also identifies that the concept of jihad is the most misunderstood and misrepresented subject matter worldwide. The purpose of this wiring is to explain, understand, and dispel the notion that terrorism or any kind of violence can be justified in the name of jihad or Islam as a faith, as projected by the media and the terrorists as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]