TALIBAN’S CIVILIAN CASUALTY MANTRA CANNOT OBSCURE REALITY OF TERRORISM EMANATING FROM AFGHAN SOIL
In the theater of international diplomacy, few narratives are more cynically rehearsed than that of the Taliban regime when Pakistani…
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International Forums, National Narrative, and the Role of Justice Mansoor Ali Shah
Justice (Retd.) Syed Mansoor Ali Shah is widely regarded as a symbol of judicial reform, constitutional supremacy, and the defense…
Youm e Takbeer 2026: Twenty Eight Years of the Shield That Never Sleeps
Twenty eight years have passed since the mountains of Chagai roared. On 28 May 1998, deep in the Ras Koh…
Godi Media’s Shameless Distortion of Facts
When the Camera Lies: Indian Media’s Narrative War Over the Hamza Burhan Killing The killing of Arjumand Gulzar Dar, widely…
Field Marshal Asim Munir and the Art of De-escalation
In international politics, the loudest actor is rarely the most effective. The real test of leadership is not how forcefully…
The Weaponisation of Women Is Not Resistance
One of the ugliest features of modern terrorism is that it does not merely target society from the outside; it…
Pak-UAE Strategic Relations
At a time when public debate is being driven by noise more than nuance, the recent clamour and speculations over…
Pakistan’s Mediation Is Prudence, Not Weakness
The criticism being directed at Pakistan for trying to mediate in the US-Israel-Iran conflict says more about the critics than…
The Taliban’s Rule Is Not Sharia
The Taliban presents its rule in Afghanistan as the pure application of Sharia, a government guided by religion, moral order,…
PTM Protests Abroad and the Politics of Narrative
PTM protests abroad have triggered serious concern in Pakistan, not simply because of what was said, but because of when…