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Frontier AI and the Architecture of Risk Strategic competition creates a familiar dilemma. States and firms pursue capabilities they consider...
Pakistan’s proposed 2026 civil services reforms have brought the country’s bureaucracy back into the center of the national debate. After years of...
Theoretical Foundations and Historical Realities It is evident in recent times how relations among states have been reshaped. Realists believe that...
New York City is about to become the stage for one of the unusual diplomatic standoffs in recent memory. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Is Nationalism the Real Threat? In the modern world, running a country has become extremely complicated. Countries are now expected to prioritize...
In “The Age of Bronze”, Lord Byron weaponized his biting satire against the Congress of Verona, mocking European rulers for masking their domestic...
“The whole earth is a sepulchre of famous men” – Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War. “The whole earth is a sepulchre of famous...
When the White House issued an invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the upcoming G20 summit in Miami, officials stressed that the...
Colonial Foundations and the Shift Toward Regional Training Both the Pakistan and Sri Lankan armies came into existence by virtue of colonialism, in...
A murder trial can last for weeks, involve dozens of witnesses, and end with 12 people sitting together for hours trying to decide what happened. Yet...
In a dark room of Lahore’s old city, a woman, nearly 20 years old, waits for her next client. Her life is suffocated in the narrow streets of...
The recent summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump captured global attention. The summit between the two global...
The Inheritance They Never Received Why don’t girls and women in Pakistan receive their inheritance? Although the law grants them this right, family...
There is something strange about shopping on Shein. You open the app looking for one shirt, and suddenly you are looking at hundreds of dresses,...
Video is now the default way most people spend time on their phones, moving between YouTube, Instagram, and half a dozen messaging apps in a single...
Low Self-esteem or Threatened Egotism A longstanding misconception about extremism is that it stems from low self-esteem. This concept, however, is a...
The story of Pakistan’s economy has been following a familiar pattern for years: one crisis after another; crises approach and are resolved after...
A nation emerging from colonization usually faces the challenges that determine its trajectory due to the occurrence of critical moments. These...
Pakistan has made another attempt to connect with Japan. This time, the focus is mainly on technology, rather than the older stories about textiles...
On September 12, 2026, eleven governments sat down in New Delhi and did something BRICS hadn’t managed in years: agree on a joint declaration...
On February 27, 2022, three days into a war nobody in Berlin had planned for, Olaf Scholz walked into an emergency session of the Bundestag and used a...
For many years, India has not accepted the boundary between Pakistan and China. Besides that, there has been a dispute over the Himalayan region for a...
Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, the world finds itself staring at an uncomfortable rerun. According to a Washington Post...
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many people in the West felt that a great force beyond a country had vanished. For fifty years, two rival...
International law does not allow a state to excuse itself from the obligation of a treaty by saying it has put it “in abeyance. It provides just...
In 2024, Pakistan earned a distinction no government wants: it topped the world in economic losses caused by internet shutdowns. According to research...
Pakistan is finally talking seriously about artificial intelligence. Universities are adding AI programs, companies are experimenting with new tools,...
For years, the internet worked on a fairly simple exchange. Let’s suppose we use Google to search for something; it shows us various website links....
Cyber Threats Cross National Borders On August 21, 2026, India ordered Google to shut down hundreds of Firebase platforms after it found out that...
Balochistan’s ancient karez system kept the province alive through centuries of drought. Unregulated tube wells are finishing it off in a...
Who Was Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh (R.A.)? Few names occupy as prominent a place in the spiritual history of Lahore as Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh (R.A.)....
Four years after seizing Kabul and returning to power, the Taliban’s message during their new era has been simple: that Afghanistan is united and...
The only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other. – Thucydides The only sure basis of an alliance is for each...
When a child opens an app, the first decision is often not made by the child at all. Before a teenager has watched a video, searched for homework...
Pakistan appears to have a diversified economic network. China supplies machinery and industrial inputs. Gulf states provide a large share of...
One of the most famous green zones in Islamabad is Shakarparian. This place is popular among tourists, families, photographers, and those who want to...
In the late 1990s, Keith Raniere, a self-proclaimed genius, founded an organization named NXIVM (pronounced Nexium), alongside a psychiatric nurse,...
It was stated on August 11 that personal data from about 15 million Kazakhs had been sold on the dark web, once again raising concerns regarding...
For years, we have seen a close friendship between the West and the East with Pakistan. Recently, we can see Pakistan being stuck between two economic...
Have you ever thought about the information you deleted years ago, but suddenly that information appears in your search result while searching for...
AI hallucinations are changing how we trust Google Search. Explore the risks of inaccurate AI answers in medical and legal queries and why...
Ask anyone, and they will tell you, with a mixture of disbelief and mild alarm, that the year has gone. That it was somehow January last week. That...
“We will die before we let the province be divided.” Variations of this sentiment increasingly surface whenever the question of new provinces is...
This month’s edition of Paradigm Shift brings together a diverse collection of analyses examining the political, social, economic, and strategic...
On September 4, 2026, Reuters reported that the US and China are preparing for their first official bilateral talks focused exclusively on AI safety,...
Picking the best universities can be challenging for a student. However, for many Pakistani students, Iqra University has always been on their radar...
In Pakistan, the practice of animal testing operates without a clear and comprehensive legal and institutional structure. Despite the significant use...
Federalism exists on several planes simultaneously. A boundary that creates a majority in one area creates a minority at the same time. The most...
Maps provide not only information on the geographical features but also the vision of the government on the issues of power, sovereignty, and national...
Pakistan has finally declared that a victim’s body cannot be used to determine whether they have been raped. The Lahore High Court, in the case of...
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