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Why Pakistan, India must forge strategic climate partnership

When Lahore and Delhi choke under the same winter smog and their northern mountains groan under cloudbursts, the border briefly disappears, only for...

27.09.2025 40

Shakeel Ahmed Shah

Climate resilience starts with accountability

Northern Pakistan has witnessed a troubling surge in climate induced disasters over the past few years. From flash floods in Gilgit-Baltistan to...

04.09.2025 80

Shakeel Ahmed Shah

The chasm between law and culture

Pakistan's progressive legal framework often collides with a deep-rooted cultural mindset, creating a jarring paradox. What the law protects, society...

11.08.2025 40

Shakeel Ahmed Shah

Muted mandate: SAARC and the cycle of Indo-Pak escalation

When founded, in 1985, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was envisioned as a platform for regional harmony and collective...

12.06.2025 40

Shakeel Ahmed Shah

Pakistan's youth and the rebirth of civic imagination

For those of us born in the early 1990s in Pakistan - who came of age in the 2000s and entered college at the turn of the first and second decades of...

05.05.2025 100