Power in Afghanistan today is not measured by public consent or institutional authority, but by control over revenue streams that operate beyond law and scrutiny. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Taliban’s takeover of the mining sector, where gold and other strategic minerals have become instruments of domination rather than tools of recovery. Behind […]
Weaponising
Weaponising the Indus
President Asif Ali Zardari’s words at the Doha summit were uncharacteristically, albeit necessarily, blunt: India’s attempt to “weaponise water cannot and will not succeed.” The statement captured the mood of an anxious nation that understands the stakes. Eighty per cent of Pakistan’s surface water originates upstream in India, and nine in ten Pakistanis live in […]