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Pakistan at 79: The ones who can, still leave https://arab.news/64qkz In mid-August 1947, British rule ended in India and the land was divided along...
The Gulf stops waiting for Washington https://arab.news/r5g9k The mutual defense pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan sent several...
Pakistan’s balancing act in the Gulf is getting harder https://arab.news/j43k7 Pakistan has emerged as a critical regional stakeholder since the...
A new paradigm for global health financing https://arab.news/g4zgc Global health financing has long reflected good intentions but flawed incentives,...
The Gulf became the bridge Pakistan was meant to be https://arab.news/vnrsa The global logistics map is being redrawn in real time. The Red Sea, once...
Gulf security is going local. Pakistan is already inside it. https://arab.news/wwdmk Two developments last week indicate that the security situation...
Pakistan keeps redrawing the blueprint. It never finishes the building. https://arab.news/5up7n One Unit would end provincial rivalries. Basic...
Could China succeed where the US and Israel have failed? https://arab.news/zpnwe The latest military confrontation between Iran and the United States...
Rethinking the fight against trafficking in persons https://arab.news/2eze8 Trafficking in persons is one of the most persistent crimes in the world....
The ceasefire collapsed. So did Pakistan’s economic window https://arab.news/jxq4w When I wrote for these pages in June, I argued that...
China’s Urumqi process can’t fix Pakistan-Afghanistan militancy alone https://arab.news/myyqw Recently, Islamabad has held the global limelight,...
Why social media age bans are not the answer https://arab.news/rfqb7 When I joined Facebook in 2009, I believed in the mission that founder Mark...
Pakistan has joined China’s AI body. Now comes the hard part https://arab.news/b5agg Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar spent last week in a Shanghai...
The Gulf’s AI economy won’t wait for Pakistan https://arab.news/gb9fk Earlier this year Pakistan crossed a milestone it had chased for a decade:...
The Strait of Hormuz and the price of selective principles https://arab.news/4dz27 Is it realpolitik or hegemony’s classic face? When President...
Governments should govern AI, not own it https://arab.news/5avt4 It is now abundantly clear that governments must take responsibility for shaping the...
Saudi Arabia well positioned to ride medical tourism wave https://arab.news/83jmm While the broader tourism industry generally receives extensive...
Macron gives Syria’s reconstruction a vital boost https://arab.news/zvkba French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus last week was the...
Space is the new strategic high ground https://arab.news/p7kdz If there was any doubt left, we now know with certainty that if or when a major direct...
I served in Balochistan. It’s time to admit what isn’t working https://arab.news/wd74p When I joined the Police Service of Pakistan in 1988, my...
Why an old Obama clip still stings in South Asia https://arab.news/bupu9 A three-year-old interview rarely finds a second life. Yet over the past few...
Europe must face the world on its own https://arab.news/bfjtv As the US withdraws from Europe under President Donald Trump’s second administration,...
NATO must strengthen its ties with the Gulf https://arab.news/g45nb NATO leaders gathered in Ankara, Turkiye, on Tuesday and Wednesday for a major...
Ankara NATO summit reveals push for stronger Gulf ties https://arab.news/r55yc On the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara on July 7-8, NATO foreign...
Democrat hopeful delivers a warning to Israeli extremists https://arab.news/cv22j Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff and mayor of...
Indus Water Treaty matters: Signpost to catastrophe https://arab.news/m74ej The Indus Waters Treaty between Pakistan and India, applauded by the world...
Rivers beyond rivalries: Rethinking the Indus Waters Treaty https://arab.news/8tgat Once celebrated as a shared lifeline between India and Pakistan,...
Why Jamaat-ul-Ahrar struck Karachi https://arab.news/pe9c6 On June 27, a coordinated gun-and-bomb attack on the paramilitary Rangers’ headquarters...
‘Everything will be okay’ with Afghanistan. It still isn’t. https://arab.news/62dc7 I remember sitting across from the commander of the Kabul...
A new security architecture for West Asia https://arab.news/5y8wn The recent Iran-United States conflict has triggered one of the most consequential...
Pakistan brokered the peace. Western media saw only oil https://arab.news/rt2fb When the United States and Iran reached their peace deal, Donald Trump...
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: A real test of brotherhood https://arab.news/2z29v When Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed the Strategic Mutual Defense...
Diplomatic capital is not enough: Pakistan’s next test in the Gulf https://arab.news/gd3a7 For much of the past year, Pakistan’s engagement with...
Pakistan’s budget of managed expectations https://arab.news/2c8fc Pakistan’s government delivered its budget last week with the now-familiar...
Did Pakistan’s mediation just open a new regional order? https://arab.news/cksdr The 14-point US-Iran MoU must not be read only through the Western...
Can Pakistan challenge Indian strategic depth in the East? https://arab.news/8zmkh Since the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the contours of...
Trump-Iran historic peace agreement under Israel’s evil eye https://arab.news/pwgcp As Trump and his White House aides, the Iranian clergy in...
I was covering evictions. Then came the knock on my door https://arab.news/y45rn It was close to 11pm when I finally went to sleep that evening. My...
Trigger-happy policing: The cost of shortcut justice https://arab.news/mzbp6 Nine-year-old Hania Ahmad had traveled from Australia to Pakistan for a...
Can Pakistan’s diplomatic triumph help the economy? https://arab.news/jnb4b For months, Pakistan’s economy has been gripped by a storm, this time...
What if Europe loses access to its climate data? https://arab.news/g4cdx Last October, Signe Ratso, deputy director-general of the Directorate-General...
Global focus shifts to hot spots beyond Iran https://arab.news/ynqzt While an agreement to end the Iran crisis has yet to be signed, attention is...
Geography of wealth ties Sudan’s feuding factions together https://arab.news/89t5w Decades after South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to break...
Lebanon conflict holds echoes of 1982 — and Israeli failure https://arab.news/ptct5 It was Mark Twain who famously said that “history doesn’t...
Why Haykal Came to Rawalpindi https://arab.news/ygtbj Lebanese Army Chief, General Rodolphe Haykal, has visited Pakistan at the invitation of Chief of...
When rape becomes a punchline https://arab.news/59cwt There is a particular kind of joke that doesn’t just offend — it reveals. Last week at the...
Why China’s mediation can manage but not resolve the Afghanistan-Pakistan deadlock https://arab.news/rhkbp As China lays the groundwork for a second...
Israeli violations extend to the Muslim call to prayer https://arab.news/ny38v On Eid Al-Adha, as prayers and greetings traveled across communities, a...
Islamabad needs smarter security, not more roadblocks https://arab.news/63jyh Many years ago, while supervising security arrangements for a...
Beyond deterrence: A roadmap for India-Pakistan dialogue https://arab.news/4cmkb One year after Operation Sindoor, an important shift is quietly...