No Safe Havens: Why Balochistan’s Orchard Warning Is a Necessary Line in the Sand
There is a moment in every counterterrorism campaign when the State must look beyond the trigger puller and…
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Taliban Regime’s Five-Year War on Journalism
Despite the Taliban’ return to power, Afghanistan’s media space is not the multifaceted public sphere it had become in the…
Adrift and Forgotten: The Crisis of Stranded Pakistani Seafarers
In an era when the world claims to champion workers’ rights and humanitarian principles, eight Pakistani seafarers have spent nearly…
UNSC Reform Without New Permanent Privileges
Reforming the United Nations Security Council is no longer a matter of institutional preference. It has become a question of…
India’s Independence Day is Black Day
August 15: When One Nation’s Celebration Is Another’s Day of Mourning As India hoists its tricolor and Prime Minister…
Deconstructing the “Colonized Pashtuns” Claim
The claim that Pashtuns constitute a “colonized people under Punjabi occupation” has increasingly appeared in sections of political discourse surrounding…
India’s Boycott Cannot Override International Water Law
India’s withdrawal from the Neutral Expert proceedings under the Indus Waters Treaty may be politically dramatic, but it is not…
When Process Becomes a Political Target: The AJK Election Commission’s Case for Procedural Integrity
In the theatre of Pakistani electoral politics, the loudest voice after polling day is rarely that of the…
One DNA of India, Israel and the Taliban Regime
When Taliban Agriculture Minister Mawlawi Ataullah Omari told an audience in New Delhi that Afghanistan and India share “one DNA,”…
Amrullah Saleh and the Politics of Blaming Pakistan
Amrullah Saleh’s attempt to question Pakistan’s counterterrorism operations should be judged against the record of the man making the accusation….