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A blowback of narrative engineering

The recent move by National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency to seek a court order against 27 YouTube channels marks yet another chapter in the...

11.07.2025 30

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PTI: divided leadership, jailed leader and inflammatory rhetoric

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), once regarded as the country's most potent political force, now finds its leadership split into four distinct groups:...

04.07.2025 10

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A strategic triad rewiring Eurasia

On May 28, 2025, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Türkiye and Pakistan gathered in Lachin to formalise a trilateral partnership that could reshape how...

26.06.2025 30

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A shared horizon: why Pak-Afghan ties matter

Few bilateral relationships in South Asia are as deeply rooted and strategically consequential as those between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Shaped by...

19.06.2025 100

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India, ISKP and BLA: Pakistan's multi-front security challenge

In recent years, Pakistan has grappled with an evolving security landscape marked by a resurgence of terrorism and foreign interference. From the...

13.06.2025 50

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India's role in South Asia: time to honour Delhi Agreement

South Asia, with its intertwined histories and complex relationships, remains one of the most volatile regions in the world. The 1974 Delhi Agreement,...

06.06.2025 50

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India's water war: time for justice, not aggression

India's recent hybrid war against Pakistan began not with tanks or missiles, but with a chilling threat - shut off the water. In the wake of the...

30.05.2025 80

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India's foreign policy — optics, opportunism and scapegoating

As India stumbled to control the global narrative, the world witnessed a spectacle not of strategy, but of survival. In the aftermath of the Pahalgam...

23.05.2025 50

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India's covert war on Pakistan's existence

In yet another grim episode of ethnic bloodshed, four Punjabi men were recently gunned down in the Naukshi area of Balochistan. From bus shootings to...

18.05.2025 40

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PTI's lonely road: from May 9 violence to political isolation

May 9, 2022 will be remembered as one of the most consequential days in Pakistan's recent political history. In the wake of former Prime Minister...

09.05.2025 10

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Pahalgam exposes India's Kashmir contradiction

The recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, which claimed the lives of Hindu tourists, all male, was tragic and reprehensible by every standard of human...

02.05.2025 70

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HIV in Pakistan: a fight for dignity, not just treatment

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) – of which AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is the most advanced stage – is a disease that many avoid...

25.04.2025 30

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Rethinking the diaspora's role

Overseas Pakistanis have long occupied a complicated place in the country's political and economic imagination. They are celebrated as the lifeblood...

17.04.2025 40

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Fake news: undermining governance, sowing discord

In today's interconnected world, proliferation of misinformation poses a significant threat to effective governance, democratic processes and...

11.12.2024 3

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The dead count

Despite all the complexities with India, we share common memories of Indian cinema that offer glimpses of reality and, at times, amusement through...

04.12.2024 8

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PTI's protest politics: eroding constitutional order

PTI's recent protests have reignited a troubling pattern in Pakistani politics: the prioritisation of street agitation over democratic dialogue. At...

27.11.2024 3

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India's cricket refusal: a disruptive stance

Once again, India has refused to come to Pakistan to play cricket. This isn't because India doesn't want to face the Pakistan cricket team; the...

20.11.2024 3

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The enemy within

In an unsettling development that challenges the integrity of Pakistan's law enforcement, Muhammad Wali, a constable from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's...

13.11.2024 2

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Why is Israel not on IS's radar?

The Islamic State (IS), along with its Afghan branch, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), has long declared its mission as defending Islam,...

08.11.2024 3

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Afghanistan's internal fault Lines

Recent months have unveiled significant internal fractures within the Taliban's leadership in Afghanistan, raising questions about the group's...

31.10.2024 20

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India joins the murder club

The recent diplomatic clash between India and Canada has opened a Pandora's box of allegations involving serious human rights violations and...

23.10.2024 3

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PTM's troubling allegiances

The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) emerged as a powerful advocate for the rights of the Pashtun community, initially sparked by the tragic killing...

16.10.2024 10