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Shehbaz Sharif’s Kashmir speech turns the spotlight on Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir

Shehbaz Sharif’s Kashmir speech turns the spotlight on Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir

Shehbaz Sharif’s Kashmir speech turns the spotlight on Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir As my friend Safdar from POJK told me later that while...

01.10.2026 10

News9Live

Raja Muneeb

Pakistan faces tough questions

Pakistan faces tough questions

For years, Pakistan has attempted to turn the language of human rights into an instrument of foreign policy, presenting itself internationally as a...

30.09.2026 10

The Statesman

Raja Muneeb

Pakistan’s lawfare strategy against India has finally been blunted

Pakistan’s lawfare strategy against India has finally been blunted Columnist Raja Muneeb argues that India is changing the way it responds to...

07.09.2026 30

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Raja Muneeb

China’s Himalayan ambition is creating an environmental disaster for the region.

China’s Himalayan ambition is creating an environmental disaster for the region. China’s rapid infrastructure expansion across Tibet deserves...

01.09.2026 9

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Raja Muneeb

Bangladesh's dangerous drift in foreign policy

Bangladesh’s dangerous drift in foreign policy Making Sheikh Hasina's extradition the effective price of a prime ministerial visit risks...

23.08.2026 30

News9Live

Raja Muneeb

The tale of two Kashmirs

For more than seven decades, Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir (POJK) existed under two different political systems....

05.08.2026 30

The Statesman

Raja Muneeb

Pakistan’s water woes precede IWT abeyance

For years, Pakistan’s water debate has been dominated by a familiar argument. Whenever concerns about shortages emerged, attention quickly shifted...

03.07.2026 40

The Statesman

Raja Muneeb

Turkey-Pakistan axis

Operation Sindoor was fought as much through propaganda and misinformation as it was through military action across the border. The moment India...

20.05.2026 50

The Statesman

Raja Muneeb

GCC divisions

The collapse of the Islamabad talks between the United States and Iran has abruptly ended what many had hoped would serve as a pathway to...

18.04.2026 70

The Statesman

Raja Muneeb

Opinion | A Movement That Ate Its Own Valley: Hurriyat's Hypocrisy Of Separatism Politics

Kashmir deserves leaders who acknowledge the past, own their role in its tragedies, and help build a politics that protects the peace as fiercely as...

30.12.2025 30

News18

Raja Muneeb

Opinion | Oxford Debate Fiasco: A Mirror To India’s Intellectual Blind Spots And The Diaspora’s Strategic Failures

While Pakistan actively shapes academic discourse, the Indian diaspora continues to rely predominantly on protests, petitions, and reactive outrage

14.12.2025 50

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Raja Muneeb

Opinion | A Nation On The Brink: Pakistan Will Implode If It Doesn’t Mend Its Ways

The country that once sold itself as the ‘fortress of Islam’ now struggles to pay its bills, feed its children, educate its youth, or even pretend...

21.11.2025 40

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Raja Muneeb

Opinion | Sardar Patel’s Dream, Modi’s Mission: The Unbroken Arc Of Indian Unity

From Patel’s vision of political integration to Modi’s pursuit of social, cultural, and developmental unity, the continuum of Indian nationhood...

29.10.2025 50

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Raja Muneeb

Opinion | The Afghan Trap: How Pakistan’s Quest For Strategic Depth Has Turned Into Strategic Death

Afghanistan was never Pakistan’s strategic depth but always its strategic death—a self-inflicted unravelling of a state that mistook fanaticism...

24.10.2025 20

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Raja Muneeb

Opinion | From Innovator To Agitator: How Sonam Wangchuk Misled The Gen Z Of Ladakh

Sonam Wangchuk's story is a cautionary tale of how moral authority, when unchecked by responsibility, can mutate into political extremism

17.10.2025 60

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Raja Muneeb

Opinion | Unmasking Propaganda: The Truth Behind Kashmir’s Unmarked Graves

Kashmir’s people deserve peace, development, and reconciliation and not endless radicalisation, terrorism and propaganda war

18.09.2025 60

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Raja Muneeb

Opinion | Sonam Wangchuk: From Eco-Activist To Foreign-Backed Agitator Destabilising Ladakh

Wangchuk is becoming a tool in the hands of vested interests so he can hide his failures, avoid his dues, and play into the hands of those who wish to...

02.09.2025 60

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Raja Muneeb