Pakistan’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies recently achieved a major counterterrorism success in Karachi, uncovering and neutralising a highly dangerous terrorist plot before it could be executed. While the recovery of more than 2,000 kilograms of explosive material and the arrest of multiple terrorists rightly deserve public acknowledgment, the deeper significance of this operation lies […]
Turning Point
A Turning Point?
The appeal by Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti to the Election Commission of Pakistan, seeking to postpone the local government elections in Quetta, originally scheduled for December 28, throws into stark relief the dangerous drift of our political ethos. CM Bugti cited law-and-order concerns, harsh winter conditions, and migrant-voter absenteeism as reasons for seeking a […]
A Turning Point No One Saw Coming
When Wadera Noor Ali Chakrani finally stepped forward at Pakistan House, flanked by more than a hundred men who once followed him into the mountains, the moment felt less like a spectacle and more like the closing of a long, exhausting chapter. Their weapons, laid out in a muted row, were not the centrepiece. It […]
Bangladesh’s Turning Point
November 17, 2025, will be remembered in Dhaka as the day a state acknowledged through its own legal process that its political trajectory had reached a critical turning point. Sheikh Hasina, once praised for guiding Bangladesh through economic expansion, has been sentenced to death in absentia by a special tribunal for actions linked to last […]