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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...

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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...

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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...

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Fatemeh Aman

Zionism vs Global South: The New World War

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 1

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Orhan Khan

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

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 10

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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...

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Fatemeh Aman

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

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 (Twenty-...

12.11.2025 10

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Asad Faizi