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The Half-Baked Five-Star Office: Why Pakistan’s New CDF Post Is a Constitutional Time Bomb

Pakistan is on tenterhooks regarding the issuance of the notification appointing FM Asim Munir as the Chief of Defense Forces (CDF), a position...

03.12.2025 30

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Zubair Gilani

Iran Re-Edits Its Revolution

It was a gray afternoon in Tehran when a new mural appeared near Darvazeh Dolat, a crowded crossroads where the metro empties streams of commuters...

02.12.2025 30

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Fatemeh Aman

Why Iran Missed Out on Central Asian Connectivity

For most of the past three decades, Iran assumed that its geographic position would eventually draw Central Asia southward. The argument was simple....

28.11.2025 50

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Fatemeh Aman

Pakistan’s Biggest Macro Constraint Is Corruption: The IMF Finally Says the Quiet Part Loud—And Then Does Little to Stop It!

On November 19, 2025, the Ministry of Finance dutifully uploaded the IMF’s Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA) for Pakistan. The...

26.11.2025 40

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Javed Hassan

Afghanistan’s Water Power: Between Iran and Pakistan

Afghanistan is often described as landlocked, but in hydrological terms, it is upstream of two major states. Its rivers descend toward Pakistan in...

23.11.2025 60

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Fatemeh Aman

Zionism vs Global South: The New World War

The current Gaza crisis has violently stripped away the carefully crafted veneer around Zionism, revealing its true essence—brutal, racist,...

23.11.2025 40

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Orhan Khan

From Samarkand to Washington: Central Asia’s Strategic Rise in a Competing World

Ten years ago in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the C5 1 format was launched—an ambitious diplomatic initiative linking the five Central Asian republics...

21.11.2025 40

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News Desk

A Republic of Relatives: Why Iran’s Rulers Still Stand

In October 2025, a leaked video of a lavish Tehran wedding, showing the daughter of Ali Shamkhani, former secretary of the Supreme National Security...

21.11.2025 40

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Fatemeh Aman

The Constitutional Coup: How Pakistan’s 27th Amendment Engineers a New State

A specter of profound and perilous change haunts Pakistan’s military and political landscape, embodied in the Constitution 27th Amendment...

12.11.2025 150

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Asad Faizi

The AI Boom—And the Bubble Everyone Is Pretending Isn’t There

We are living through a market moment built on a dazzling idea: that artificial intelligence (AI) will remake business, lift productivity, and deliver...

11.11.2025 80

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Patience Quill

The Day the Constitution Died: How Pakistan’s Politicians Turned Revenge into Law

Pakistan stands on the brink of what senior jurists call the slaughter of the Constitution, a constitutional coup dressed in legalese. The so-called...

11.11.2025 60

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Barrister Shahzad Akbar

The Constitutional Martial Law: Pakistan’s Descent into Legalized Authoritarianism

Since the regime change of April 2022, Pakistan has been undergoing a transformation more subtle — and more dangerous — than any past martial law....

07.11.2025 30

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Orhan Khan

From Queens to Khyber: The Rise of a New Global South Leadership

In a world increasingly polarized by power, privilege, and propaganda, two young political figures—Zohran Mamdani in the United States and Suhail...

31.10.2025 40

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Orhan Khan

Maryam Nawaz and the Politics of Fabricated Realities

If the art of deception ever became an Olympic sport, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s self-styled “Mother of Punjab”, would bring home gold...

25.10.2025 20

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Barrister Shahzad Akbar

Trump, Tel Aviv, and Rawalpindi: The Generals’ Desperate Gamble to Stop Imran Khan

In Pakistan today, the country’s powerful generals have turned politics into a zero-sum game — a battle for survival in which the rise of Imran...

23.10.2025 80

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Orhan Khan

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Hinge: When Pakistan’s Story Turned

What’s happening in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa doesn’t feel like routine politics; it feels like a hinge in history. An ordinary PTI worker from a poor...

22.10.2025 20

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Asad Faizi

When the State Bombs Its Own People: Gandapur’s Evasion of Duty Must End

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has offered a deeply troubling defence of recent aerial bombardments and heavy-artillery...

11.10.2025 20

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Barrister Shahzad Akbar

Trump-Netanyahu Peace Proposal is a Trap? Doomed to Fail?

The sobering reality is that despite the optimism surrounding recent diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, the Trump administration’s proposed...

04.10.2025 200

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Asad Faizi

India’s Shekhar Gupta is Wrong: No! Pakistani DNA is Not Designed for Military Rule

The human spirit has always strained toward freedom, across time and borders. To claim otherwise, to say any people are preordained for autocracy or...

01.10.2025 40

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Miyamoto Musashi

Nepal’s Gen Z Won A Battle but Real War Lies Ahead?

The September 2025 protests in Nepal will be remembered for their intensity and their outcome. Generation Z, the country’s restless youth, poured...

30.09.2025 30

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Eman Fatima Akhlaq

Revitalizing UNAMA: Practical Steps for an Afghan Mission

Co-authored by Omar Samad (Amb.), Dr. Ahmad Wais WARDAK, and Dr. Mujib Abid The United Nations Security Council convened last week to assess the...

30.09.2025 40

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Mujib Abid

How an Israeli Strike in Doha, Forces Saudis to Bring Pakistan in to create a New Regional Order?

When a missile ripped through a residential compound in Doha on Sept. 9, it did more than shatter windows. It detonated a geopolitical fuse whose...

25.09.2025 40

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Patience Quill

Pakistan–Saudi Defence Agreement: Strategic Shield or Double-Edged Cold War Replay?

The ‘Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement’ between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, concluded on 17 September 2025 during Prime Minister Shehbaz...

25.09.2025 40

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Zubair Gilani

A Strike in Doha, an Oath in Riyadh — and a Global Order at Risk

When a missile ripped through a residential compound in Doha on Sept. 9, it did more than shatter windows. It detonated a geopolitical fuse whose...

24.09.2025 40

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Patience Quill

Trees Are Rarer Than Diamonds: How We Can Still Reverse Climate Collapse

We live in societies where value is something we assign, not something inherent. If something generates profit, we call it valuable. If it does not,...

23.09.2025 30

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Maya Pirzada

Islamic Bomb for Petrodollars: The Ummah’s Coalition, Barter, or Mirage?

Desert Winds Whisper Swords cross in hot sands. Petro-gold buys atomic fire. With the Ummah’s and the Arab World’s conscience seared and a...

23.09.2025 40

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Miyamoto Musashi

India-U.S. Relationship Reset: A Tale of Personal Egos or Cold Strategy?

For over 25 years, successive U.S. administrations, from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden, have courted India as America’s indispensable security bulwark...

18.09.2025 60

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Zubair Gilani

What is Happening in Nepal?

Recent developments in Nepal need a deep analysis of the situation. It all started on Monday, 8th September 2025 with protests by Nepalese youth, led...

13.09.2025 50

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Markandey Katju

Dictator in disguise

Pakistan is a nation where democracy has long been under pressure, and the West’s cynical disregard for morality only deepens the crisis. ...

26.08.2025 60

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Shoaib Sultan

The Way Forward

‘When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’ Thomas Jefferson.   This paper is likely to be monitored and the small minds reading it...

04.08.2025 90

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Lt. Gen Tariq Khan

Pakistan’s Fragile Existence: To be or not to be?

Sword cuts through the veil, Truth bleeds from a broken land, Freedom waits in shards With a heavy heart and much reluctance, I, a wanderer of both...

31.07.2025 150

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Miyamoto Musashi

Unwelcome Truths: What Khan and Mamdani Reveal About the Limits of Liberal Tolerance

At first glance, Imran Khan and Zohran Mamdani occupy vastly different political landscapes: one led a nuclear‐armed nation of 240 million, the...

11.07.2025 30

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Patience Quill

A MOSAIC Approach to Afghanistan: Controversy and Opportunity

Co-authored by Omar Samad (Amb.) and Dr. Mujib Abid Last week, the United Nations introduced the MOSAIC plan at the Security Council session on...

01.07.2025 30

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Mujib Abid

The Unshakable Alliance: Why Evangelicals Stand with Israel

In the intricate tapestry of American foreign policy, few relationships are as enduring as the bond between Christian evangelicals and the state of...

29.06.2025 20

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Patience Quill

Romania is Cutting Economic and Entrepreneurial Education – at the worst possible time

At a time when economic resilience, financial literacy, and entrepreneurial thinking are more essential than ever, Romania is preparing to drastically...

19.06.2025 20

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Legman Ioan David

Erased from the Global Imagination: Why Pakistan Remains Absent in the Age of Soft Power

In an era when nations project their influence not just through economies or armies but through culture, art, education, and digital narratives,...

02.06.2025 60

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Patience Quill

Pakistan’s Field Marshal: Who Changed the Stars…

The Field Marshal’s baton has been dusted off again. Not from the echoes of a great war, not from a hard-earned national victory, but from the quiet...

29.05.2025 20

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Ali Abbas