Turning CPEC into an Export Engine
Pakistan has spent years being described as a market of potential, always one reform away, one crisis short. CPEC changes…
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How Pakistan Can Make Reform Stick in 2026
Pakistan’s economy has earned a rare thing over the past two years, breathing room. In 2023, default talk was not…
Weaponization of Water in the Indus Basin
When a river system keeps two rivals alive, it also gives one of them a quiet kind of power. Eurasia…
FAK’s Global Terror Footprint
The November 7, 2025, arrest of cleric Osama Umar by Rajasthan’s Anti Terrorism Squad should end any remaining comfort that…
FAK’s War on Humanity
When armed men storm a hospital site, they are not fighting a state; they are fighting life itself. The attack…
Taliban Mining Control Fuels Terror and Instability
Afghanistan’s mining sector is no longer just a story about buried wealth and missed opportunity. Under Taliban control, it has…
Lakki Marwat to D.I. Khan
The twin operations in Jabarkhel, Lakki Marwat, and Kalachi, Dera Ismail Khan, show a pattern that matters far beyond the…
PTM’s Ethnic Frame
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) has long sought to frame Pakistan’s counterterrorism efforts as an ethnic or gender-based campaign, alleging…
India-Taliban Engagement
India’s recent diplomatic outreach to the Taliban marks a significant departure from its earlier approach to post-2001 Afghanistan, where it…
Why January 5 Still Matters
Kashmiris around the world are marking Right to Self Determination Day today, and the meaning of that phrase feels sharper…