An explosives-laden vehicle moving towards Wana was designed to turn a populated town into a killing field. That catastrophe was prevented because Pakistan’s security forces detected the plot, destroyed the vehicles and killed one terrorist. Five others were injured. It was the second such success in Wana within days, after another vehicle-borne assault on a […]
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More than a Moment
The crisis that had kept the world watching paused on Friday when Iran announced that passage for all commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz was open for the remainder of the Lebanon ceasefire. For weeks, that narrow waterway had stood at the centre of fears over disrupted oil flows, spiralling freight costs and another […]
More Bloodshed
Orakzai. Central Kurram. Eleven soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel and a major, were killed in a pre-dawn assault. Nineteen militants died in return. The firefight lasted hours, a grim echo of battles Pakistan thought it had buried after Zarb-e-Azb. Across the province, villages watch the mountains in silence while gunfire writes the news. The Tehreek-e-Taliban […]
More Politics
Pakistan’s politics has a way of turning every national tragedy into a contest of egos. The recent feud between the PPP and PML-N, played out in walkouts, press conferences and ministerial barbs, serves as a grim reminder that our federation’s fragility is not structural. It is political. At a time when over two million Pakistanis […]