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Pakistan's Credibility as Mediator Questioned Amid Regional Tensions

Afghanistan, May 3 -- Contrary to Pakistan's efforts to portray itself as a peace mediator, recent Pakistani attacks on the eastern Afghan province of Kunar mark the first major cross-border escalatio... Read More


Blood and Water Cannot Flow Together: Recasting the Indus Waters Treaty After Pahalgam

Afghanistan, April 22 -- The Indus Waters Treaty, long regarded as a rare and enduring symbol of cooperation between India and Pakistan, is now being fundamentally reinterpreted through the lens of na... Read More


Khyber‑Pakhtunkhwa's Boycott of NFC Talks and Pakistan's Broken Fiscal Federalism

Afghanistan, April 8 -- Khyber‑Pakhtunkhwa's decision to boycott the National Finance Commission (NFC) deliberations marks Pakistani establishment's persistent failure to deliver equitable resou... Read More


Pakistan's Military Uses Conflict With Afghanistan to Escape Domestic Accountability

Afghanistan, March 11 -- February ranked among the bloodiest months in Pakistan's recent history, not because of any foreign aggressor, but because the country's own security apparatus failed, repeate... Read More


Pakistan's Airstrikes Kill Civilians in Afghanistan, Undermining Diplomacy and Violating Sovereignty

Afghanistan, Feb. 26 -- Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan's eastern provinces have again pushed the region toward a dangerous edge, with Afghan authorities reporting civilian deaths after strike... Read More


Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan in Limbo: Extraction, Exclusion, and Rising Anger

Afghanistan, Feb. 22 -- Pakistan's handling of dissent in Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) has increasingly exposed the structural contradictions in its governance model in the region. Despit... Read More