Sacred Space in Makkah and the Battle Against Misinformation
There are moments in public life when the facts of a case become almost secondary to the war being waged…
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KP’s Security Crisis Demands Unity, Not Politics
There is a moment in every crisis when numbers stop being statistics and start being names. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa today,…
The Afghan Dimension of Pakistan’s Security Crisis
The identification of Afghan nationals among militants killed during a security operation in Kurram on 5 October has once again…
KP’s Silence on Terror Is No Longer Defensible
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa stands at a dangerous crossroads. The collapse of federal opposition talks this week, the launch of PTI’s…
Sindh Restructuring Is About Better Governance
Every few years Pakistan has the same argument about provincial boundaries, and the same fear comes with it: that any…
Sohail Afridi and the Politics of Deflection
Politics becomes dangerous when accountability is replaced by emotion. In Pakistan, as elsewhere, political movements often discover that public anger…