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A girl walks alone at night to a house with Greek letters on the door because she thinks a friend is inside. That is where I keep stopping. Not at the...
For most of human history a woman was not a person under the law of her own house. She was an asset with a pulse-entered in a father’s ledger,...
Innocent Before the Inquiry Began Be careful, we tell our daughters. Get educated. Serve your country. Live inside the fence the...
How three years of sandbox failures became this month’s AI doom cycle — and why the call to “pace the frontier” looks less like a safety brake...
Some people in that room wanted unity. A single story they could take home and feel good about. I understand that. But unity that requires silence is...
A few days ago, pictures of six tied-up, half-naked bodies along a roadside in Balochistan circulated on social media, bringing the terms fitna...
In medicine, silence is never neutral—it has consequences. Doctors exist on the side of life, against death and suffering; that is the premise our...
In November 2024, Pakistani security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of unarmed supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan as they...
Every year, millions of Pakistanis working in the Gulf, Europe, and North America send part of their wages home. A labourer in Dubai paying for his...
For decades, Pakistan has remained among the lowest-ranked countries in global assessments of human rights, reflecting persistent and systemic...
On Wednesday, Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary by about a single percentage point, beating Congresswoman Haley Stevens after...
About ten years ago, I made a bet with a friend. He is one of the most reasonable men I know: generous in argument, intellectually honest, and, like...
Three Muslim powers converged in the heart of Islam, Mecca, to sign a trilateral Mecca Joint Defence Agreement that sent shockwaves across the world....
Grief, Numbness, and the Asymmetry of Risk On August 26, 2026, a fire tore through the nursery of Pakistan’s largest government hospital, in the...
For too long, Pakistan’s corruption discourse is treated as a moral nuisance or as the theft of public money rather than an economic and...
From a 1958 ruling that blessed a coup after the fact to a 2025 amendment that pre-clears the next one, Pakistan’s courts haven’t resisted...
Pakistan is on tenterhooks regarding the issuance of the notification appointing FM Asim Munir as the Chief of Defense Forces (CDF), a position...
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...
For most of the past three decades, Iran assumed that its geographic position would eventually draw Central Asia southward. The argument was simple....
On November 19, 2025, the Ministry of Finance dutifully uploaded the IMF’s Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA) for Pakistan. The...
Afghanistan is often described as landlocked, but in hydrological terms, it is upstream of two major states. Its rivers descend toward Pakistan in...
The current Gaza crisis has violently stripped away the carefully crafted veneer around Zionism, revealing its true essence—brutal, racist,...
Ten years ago in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the C5 1 format was launched—an ambitious diplomatic initiative linking the five Central Asian republics...
In October 2025, a leaked video of a lavish Tehran wedding, showing the daughter of Ali Shamkhani, former secretary of the Supreme National Security...
A specter of profound and perilous change haunts Pakistan’s military and political landscape, embodied in the Constitution 27th Amendment...
We are living through a market moment built on a dazzling idea: that artificial intelligence (AI) will remake business, lift productivity, and deliver...
Pakistan stands on the brink of what senior jurists call the slaughter of the Constitution, a constitutional coup dressed in legalese. The so-called...
Since the regime change of April 2022, Pakistan has been undergoing a transformation more subtle — and more dangerous — than any past martial law....
In a world increasingly polarized by power, privilege, and propaganda, two young political figures—Zohran Mamdani in the United States and Suhail...
If the art of deception ever became an Olympic sport, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s self-styled “Mother of Punjab”, would bring home gold...
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...
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...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has offered a deeply troubling defence of recent aerial bombardments and heavy-artillery...
The sobering reality is that despite the optimism surrounding recent diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, the Trump administration’s proposed...
The human spirit has always strained toward freedom, across time and borders. To claim otherwise, to say any people are preordained for autocracy or...
The September 2025 protests in Nepal will be remembered for their intensity and their outcome. Generation Z, the country’s restless youth, poured...
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...