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From the perspective of the logistics industry, trade corridors are not lines on a map; they are systems of reliability. Cargo does not move on...
Pakistan’s economic trajectory remains tethered to the International Monetary Fund, and once again, the stakes could not be higher. The $7 billion...
The proposed dialogue between Iran and the United States in Islamabad is, at first glance, reassuring. It signals a degree of Iranian confidence in...
An Axios report on Monday indicated that Pakistan, alongside Türkiye and Egypt, has been relaying messages between Washington and Tehran and may host...
Every education system eventually confronts a reckoning: the moment when diplomas no longer guarantee opportunity and degrees alone fail to unlock...
Pakistan keeps circling back to the same question, even if it rarely says it out loud: what actually keeps the system stable—tight control or broad...
The previous column argued that today's conflicts are better understood as wars of systems rather than clashes of civilisations. This column...
When the first Iran–Israel war ended in June 2025, Pakistan emerged as a quiet but consequential player in the diplomatic endgame. Much of that...
Beyond the deeply sobering reality that a man as impulsive and strategically superficial as Donald Trump wields extraordinary power – and has now...
As oil races toward 150 dollars a barrel, Donald Trump has issued Iran a dramatic 48-hour ultimatum (22 March): fully open the Strait of Hormuz...
The escalating tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran may appear geographically distant from South Asia, but their consequences are...
Books were always my first windows to the world. My grandfather and father, both no longer with us, were devoted readers, and their love of words...
In 1832, the Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz published On War, a study that remains one of the most influential analyses of conflict ever...
Armies fight for a people; armies fight for a nation. Armies fight for a way of life. And that is what we are defending: a great civilisation that has...
The resignation of Joe Kent and Tulsi Gabbard’s Senate testimony regarding the Iran war have sparked a familiar debate in American politics: is...
“The largest waste management drive in South Asia will falter unless civic responsibility replaces the culture of normalising cesspools around”...
The Iran war has entered a phase where Pakistan’s defence alignment with Saudi Arabia is no longer a distant policy posture but increasingly subject...
One might ask if killing a head of state in the middle of negotiations defines a new normal for the American Empire. But if one includes the history...
We are in a campaign in which we are bringing the full strength of the IDF to the battle, as never before, to ensure our existence and our future. But...
Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) has always remained central to the idea of warfare and human evolution. The RMA is the active blueprint for the...
The conventional narrative around the Iran war and global finance is by now familiar: the conflict is accelerating de-dollarisation, strengthening...
Economic fragility in Pakistan reached a critical stage following the US–Israel attack on Iran on 28 February. It is not only the drastic escalation...
Shall Israel resort to using nuclear weapons over Iran, as US forces find themselves unable to open the Strait of Hormuz? That is the paramount...
What is unfolding across the Gulf is not just another episode of regional instability; it is a structural shock that is forcing governments,...
For decades after World War II, the international order rested on a simple promise: power would be restrained by rules. The United Nations,...
One of the renowned military strategists, Carl von Clausewitz, in On War (Book 1, Chapter 7), argued that “Everything is very simple in war, but the...
Israel said it launched a pre-emptive attack, along with the US, against Iran on 28th February, starting a debate about whether this act has any...
When Gaza was under severe attack by Israeli fighters and mass-scale genocide of Palestinians was carried out by the Israeli army, a cargo vessel...
The events surrounding the March 2026 United States and Israeli invasion of Iran have forced the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states to confront an...
Following the US-Israel attacks on Iran (which have been called illegal and also an act of aggression), hundreds of civilians are dead, including a...
The ongoing war between Israel and Iran has exposed a significant strategic dilemma for the United States. Washington entered the conflict alongside...
The volatile frontier separating Pakistan and Afghanistan has once again been ignited by skirmishes that could escalate into a prolonged conflict....
During the Gaza war on 13 April 2024, Iran captured an Israeli-affiliated vessel near the Strait of Hormuz called MSC Aries, carrying 17 Indian crew...
Imagine for a minute that you are a consumer of electricity in Pakistan, getting it from the electric grid. Inspired by the government’s campaign to...
People are wondering and asking what exactly happened after the Iranian president’s announcement on Saturday that there would be no further attacks...
Imran Khan is in prison, and we are fighting the Afghan Taliban. These are facts. A third reality may also be taking shape in the wake of Pakistan’s...
In the last almost fifty years of the revolutionary regime in Iran, the country has never faced such a great threat to its survival. Eight years of...
The greater Asian region has turned volatile, given the unfolding axis of Israel, India, and Afghanistan, the defiance of the Afghan Taliban to end...
Wars in the Middle East are fought with missiles and drones, but their economic shockwaves travel through global oil markets. The latest escalation...
The escalating confrontation between the US/Israel, and Iran has largely taken away the limelight and international attention from the unfolding...
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