When foreign lawyers begin arguing Pakistani court cases in international newspapers, the issue is no longer justice. Human rights lawyer Eric Lewis’s case for Imran Khan’s release in the British newspaper The Independent presents itself as a defence of due process. Strip away the jargon and looming threats, and it becomes advocacy. His column does […]
Kalat: The Facts Matter
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. Some political myths survive not because they are true, but because they are useful. The “forced accession of Kalat” story belongs to that category. It is repeated with such confidence that many now mistake the slogan for truth. […]
Children With Guns
The video from Khyber is short. Too short to fully process, yet long enough to disturb. A line of children-some barely in their teens-being handed out assault rifles. This is not just propaganda. It is a warning. When a militant outfit begins to publicly display armed children, it is no longer merely fighting a war. […]
From Suicide Bombers to Suicide Drones
For more than two decades, Pakistan has been fighting a war that many outside the region barely understand. It began with suicide bombers walking into mosques, markets and military installations. Now it has reached the skies. Last week, crude drones launched from across the Afghan border attempted to enter Pakistani airspace. Pakistan’s air defence systems […]
Silent Disappearances in Kashmir
Human rights concerns in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) are often discussed in broad political terms, but some statistics demand attention because of the human tragedy they represent. Among the most disturbing is the growing number of missing persons in the region – a trend now documented by figures presented within India’s own […]
Dignity at Stake
The claim was explosive. According to the Washington Post, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman repeatedly phoned US President Donald Trump, urging him to take the fight to Tehran. The Post said the Saudi leader made “multiple private phone calls” to Trump, pushing for an attack while publicly preaching diplomacy. In a region where rumours often […]
Moscow’s Afghan Dossier
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has released a hard-edged assessment of Afghanistan that reads less like a routine country brief and more like a warning flare for the region. Its central claim is blunt: the military-political situation remains “complex and unstable,” while terrorist networks retain operational depth across Afghan territory. At the heart of the Russian estimate […]
Muzaffarabad’s Diaspora Gambit
In the quiet winter air of Muzaffarabad this February 16, something unusual stirred: not another protest march, not another sloganeering session on Kashmir’s fate, but what has been billed as the first Overseas Kashmiri Convention; a gathering of the global Kashmiri diaspora convened under the auspices of the Government of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and […]
Pakistan’s Reform Agenda
For too long, Pakistan’s policy debate was a carousel of announcements that vanished into noise. The Pakistan Reforms Report 2026 changes that: for the first time, there is a systematic account of more than 600 governance reforms across 135 federal institutions. Rather than applause for volume alone, this documentation marks a turn from crisis management […]
BLA Militants Turn on Women
The abduction of a woman in Kech’s Balicha area this week is not merely another entry in Balochistan’s grim security log. It is a revealing episode-one that strips militant violence of its rhetoric and exposes its operational reality. Armed men did not confront the state. They seized a civilian woman from her home in broad […]