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Ambassador G. R. Baluch

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From Istanbul to Islamabad

Pakistan has a basis for this role. It helped broker the June MOU and has kept channels open to Tehran and Washington, working with Qatar and other...

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From Istanbul to Islamabad

Washington, Tehran and Tel Aviv are exchanging threats as commercial shipping, energy supplies and civilian lives face growing danger. The Strait of...

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Can the IRGC Deliver Peace? (Part 2)

Iran’s geography, population, historical identity and military capabilities justify a substantial regional role. They do not confer a right to...

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Can the IRGC Deliver Peace? (Part 1)

Iran can withstand confrontation while losing the future its resistance is intended to protect. Military endurance may frustrate an adversary’s...

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Yemen’s Fratricidal War

Yemen’s competing camps possess enough strength to frustrate each other’s ambitions, but neither has demonstrated the capacity to establish an...

08.10.2026 30

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Governance Vs Legitimacy (Part-1)

Pakistan is searching for economic stability at a time when influential voices within the government are calling for a reset of the very system...

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Indispensable Middle Power (Part-2)

Pakistan’s case has been strengthened by its evolving role as an effective middle power and bridge across competing alignments. It maintains an...

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Indispensable Middle Power (Part-1)

The unipolar moment may be receding, but the forces that benefited from it are not relinquishing their privileges quietly. Through military coercion,...

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Peaceful Coexistence Charter (Part 2)

President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic public endorsement of the agreement adds another dimension. Trump welcomed the pact as a “BIG, BOLD, AND...

24.08.2026 50

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Peaceful Coexistence Charter (Part 1)

The Makkah Joint Defence Pact among Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan should be understood as potentially more consequential than another military...

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Quest for Strategic Autonomy (Part 2)

Every day, millions of Pakistanis entrust their savings, identities and personal lives to mobile phones. Yet our policing model still reflects an era...

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Quest for Strategic Autonomy (Part 1)

History occasionally presents nations with moments that redefine their destiny. Such moments are rare and fleeting. They reward countries that possess...

30.07.2026 60

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The Old Guard (Part 2)

One of the most striking characteristics shared by many members of what might be called the Old Guard of global politics is their reliance upon...

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The Old Guard

“The issue confronting the world today is not simply one of age. It is whether a generation of political leadership whose intellectual formation...

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The Fourth Pillar (Part 2)

Pakistan contributes less than one per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet consistently ranks among the countries most vulnerable to climate...

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The Fourth Pillar (Part 1)

“In the twentieth century, nations secured their borders. In the twenty-first century, they must also secure their rivers, glaciers, food systems,...

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Promise of South Asia’s Peace

The recent statement by Dattatreya Hosabale, General Secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, that “the doors of dialogue with Pakistan should...

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The Escalation Trap

There are moments in international politics when silence is deceptive—when the absence of immediate action conceals preparation for something far...

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Checkmate Deferred

History has a peculiar way of disguising stagnation as motion. The first round of negotiations in Islamabad appeared to defy that pattern. Delegations...

28.04.2026 100

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Chokepoints as Weapons

The contemporary international system is undergoing a subtle but consequential transformation in the conduct of warfare. The recent confrontation...

24.04.2026 100

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Pakistan’s Peace Diplomacy – Part 1

At a moment when the world stood on the brink of a potentially devastating war, Pakistan, through intense diplomatic effort and an unmatched sense of...

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Pakistan’s Moment in History

A defining development in the unfolding Gulf crisis has been the quadrilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye,...

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The Geometry of Naval Power

For over seven decades, the United States built its global military doctrine on a proposition so compelling that it acquired the status of strategic...

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Akhand Bharat to Greater Israel

India’s engagement with Israel has undergone a profound transformation from cautious diplomatic recognition to a visible and multidimensional...

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Oceans, the Arbiters of Empires

Every generation declares the previous era of warfare obsolete. Today’s strategic vocabulary is saturated with references to cyber warfare,...

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Bangladesh Elections 2026

12.02.2026 50

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Bangladesh’s Democratic Dilemma

13.01.2026 100

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Derisking 2026

03.01.2026 80

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The Illusion of Global Peace

29.12.2025 100

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To Join or Not to Join

23.12.2025 80

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Thinking Begins on the Page

18.12.2025 80

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Fractured World Enters 2026

11.12.2025 100

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The Cost of Countenance

05.12.2025 70

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Syria’s Reversal of Fate

19.11.2025 70

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Afghan Taliban Regime

20.10.2025 100

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A New Beginning

30.08.2025 80

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Modi’s Red Fort Rhetoric

21.08.2025 70

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India Searches for Relevance

10.08.2025 70

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Beyond the Battlefield

05.08.2025 80

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