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Dr Hasan ZafarThe Friday Times |
There were hasty celebrations over the Islamabad MoU signed on 17 June 2026. It indeed put Islamabad in a prominent spot on the stage of world...
In the last two weeks, I published three pieces in the Friday Times, in which I proposed a “controlled, negotiated” economic default. It was not a...
The companion piece to this one, covered what a controlled default is and how it would reshape Pakistan's relationships with Saudi Arabia, China...
I argued in favour of a controlled, negotiated default in a prior piece published on 16 July 2026. This piece and its companion move past why to what:...
Pakistan is not stable. It is stalled — and mistaking one for the other is the central error in our economic policy debate. The only practical way...
The breakdown of the MoU between Iran and the United States does not come as a surprise. It was structurally designed as such. The main questions...
Following the question posed in the title of this piece, the next one is: how ready is Pakistan to align with the new realities that have emerged in...
The notion that India might attack Pakistan in 2028 is primarily rooted in the growing economic and political challenges confronting Narendra Modi. I...
The recent ruling by the Court of Arbitration in The Hague on the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has rekindled tensions between India and Pakistan, with...
Three developments over the past few days carry significant geostrategic and diplomatic implications for Pakistan. These developments must be...
Iran war is far from over. Credible reports indicate continued U.S. and Israeli military positioning in Kuwait, the UAE, and adjoining Gulf states...
A consensus is increasingly developing among defence analysts around the world that Iran has won the war. It now controls the Strait of Hormuz, which...
The proposed dialogue between Iran and the United States in Islamabad is, at first glance, reassuring. It signals a degree of Iranian confidence in...
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...
Power manifests in three distinct ways: hard power, exercised through the machinery of state security, the police and the armed forces; control of...
When asked what role China could play in ending the Russia–Ukraine war, the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, replied that his country had played...
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