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WHILE the world was busy watching Silicon Valley billionaires play catch-up with science fiction, a quiet revolution was taking place in a Beijing...
FIRST off, many Asian countries are now facing various big-ticket projects on public facilities involving the vast tracts of greenfield areas and...
The Middle East today stands at a perilous crossroads. Rising tensions, overlapping conflicts and the risk of miscalculation are pushing the region...
THE ongoing conflict in the Middle East has reached a stage where the outcome increasingly hinges on a single 21-mile-wide waterway: the Strait of...
DURING the Holy Month, we put our best step forward in everything, we do, we think, we act and we refrain from. Our minds, heart and soul is...
THE war in the Persian Gulf began with US strikes on 28 February, justified on what increasingly appears to be a questionable narrative. President...
The recent spectacle in New Delhi, where India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar resorted to gutter-level language during an...
THE US National Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard, has recently shared overriding concerns regarding Pakistan’s long range missile program, while...
THE recent tensions around the Strait of Hormuz have once again exposed a fundamental vulnerability in the global energy system: an overwhelming...
AS of January 2026, Pakistan’s central government debt continues its upward trajectory amid fiscal pressures and borrowing needs. Data from Topline...
MAINTAINING its diplomatic momentum since decisively repelling India’s military misadventure in May 2025, Pakistan has once again stepped forward...
In the contemporary geopolitical landscape, the maritime domain serves as the jugular vein of global commerce. For Pakistan, this reality is...
ON the 24th day of the war, a surprising development occurred. Donald Trump, who had previously claimed he could erase Iran from the map, hinted at a...
As the Middle East trembles under the roar of fighter jets, the flash of missiles, and the collapse of cities into dust, a parallel story is...
Since the US-Israel war against Iran began, China’s foreign minister has kept close communications with his Middle Eastern counterparts, and a...
Aasiya Andrabi, 64, a scholar and teacher of Islam, a prominent resistance leader, is a founding chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, the largest...
How elite capture, weak institutions, and historical context shaped Pakistan’s nationalization – and why reducing it to personality distorts the...
INTERNATIONAL endorsements about presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan are pouring in one after another. After the release of eye-opening...
THE global landscape is currently defined by a precarious fragility. As the US-Israel (Occupied Palestine) war on Iran enters a dangerous new phase,...
PUNJAB’S prosperity cannot be realized while parts of its population remain systematically excluded. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif-led...
THE global order is undergoing a profound transition. Intensifying great-power competition, persistent instability in the Middle East and shifting...
POVERTY in Pakistan is defined and measured by various institutions, including the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the Household Integrated Economic...
INSATIABLE desire for money and power, by declaring unnecessary wars and promoting global supply of arms and ammunition has now become the most...
Despite emerging regional socio-economic tensions and complex geo-political dynamics, the time-tested friendship between Pakistan and China continues...
The BRI 2.0 has become one of the leading contributory factors for the robust macroeconomic development of Tajikistan through numerous small and mega...
Every year on March 24, the world observes World Tuberculosis Day to commemorate the discovery of the TB bacillus and renew commitment toward ending...
IN many clinics across Pakistan, mental health professionals rely on treatment approaches developed in distant societies. These therapies often arrive...
HEAT is creeping over the Indus plains. Unlike sudden floods or storms, it comes quietly but persistently: dry winters harden soils, heatwaves stretch...
THE US-Israel ongoing war against Iran has heightened the salience of missile defense systems. The substantial deployment of low-cost drones and...
SINCE the US-Israel war against Iran began, China’s Foreign Minister has kept close communications with his Middle Eastern counterparts and a...
WARS often begin with calculated intent but unfold in ways that reshape entire regions. The ongoing confrontation between the United States Israel and...
The voice of thirty-three respected international human rights organizations—ranging from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to the...
Every year on the twenty-second of March, the global community pauses to reflect on what the United Nations calls humanity’s most precious shared...
Pakistan’s fiscal challenges are often attributed to a narrow tax base, low compliance, and weak documentation. Yet, an equally critical,...
IT was a moment of impossible choice, a time when the streets were filled with hope and tension, and voices rose together with a dream that had no map...
SOCIETIES do not fall apart overnight. They erode quietly, through small daily compromises, fraying relationships and the slow hollowing out of...
Palantir’s Maven Smart System is the C2 (Command and Control) platform at the heart of the war on Iran. The war on Iran is different from all the...
Pakistan’s creation stands as one of the most remarkable political achievements of the 20th Century, an outcome shaped by vision, resolve, and an...
The tri state war that is Iran, Israel and the USA is now in its fourth week and there are no signs of any letup or pause in the hostilities by both...
The traditional patriotic anthem just got a high-octane, electronic makeover. The ISPR’s latest release, “Meri Mitti Meri Jaan,” is sweeping...
Power, when exercised with precision rather than spectacle, rarely announces itself, it reshapes realities quietly, decisively, and often...
Nearly a century has passed since the British Empire formally exited the Indian subcontinent, yet the colonial principles, exploitative mechanisms,...
PAKISTAN Resolution is a landmark in the history of the Muslims of South Asia. It declared the true goal of a separate homeland for Muslims in the...
Celebrating Pakistan Day, honouring unity, resilience and vision while reflecting on challenges and national progress. Every year on 23rd March,...
The Lahore Resolution, popularly described as the Pakistan Resolution, was passed by the All-India Muslim League on March 23, 1940, in Lahore. It was...
I have written previously that the Israel-Palestine conflict is not merely a political or territorial issue; it is fundamentally religious. The...
WARS rarely remain confined to the battlefield. While images of conflict often focus on military operations and political tensions, the deeper and...
“Do they not then earnestly seek to understand the Qur’an, or are their hearts locked up by them?” (47:24). THIS striking verse, from the...
IN the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity, wrote the ancient strategist Sun Tzu. History repeatedly demonstrates that periods between conflicts...
AS the United States–Israel war against Iran enters its third week, there are still no clear signs of de-escalation. The conflict, initiated jointly...
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