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Power Or Public Trust?

Pakistan, July 18 -- Perhaps the greatest lesson in Pakistan's political history is that power alone has never guaranteed political survival. Institutional support, administrative authority, media man... Read More


Of Blue Passports And Pakistan's Blues

Pakistan, July 18 -- The reticent and rushed passing of self-serving legislation by lawmakers is not an unknown trend in the country. In a most recent case, through a set of three laws, the MPAs of Kh... Read More


War, Oil And New Geopolitics: Can Pakistan Convert Crisis Into Strategic Opportunity?

Pakistan, July 17 -- When the first missiles were fired on February 28, 2026, many observers hoped that the conflict would remain geographically confined and diplomatically manageable. That optimism h... Read More


Balochistan And AJK: Pakistan's Dangerous Flashpoints

Pakistan, July 17 -- All the indicators depicting Pakistan's fault lines prove that Baluchistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) are the country's dangerous flashpoints. State actors and coalition gover... Read More


The Grammar Of Greatness And World Politics

Pakistan, July 17 -- There is a pattern in modern history that deserves more attention than it gets. Whenever a statesman stands before his nation and reaches for the word great, not as a passing comp... Read More


Somaliland, Somalia, Sudan And Yemen: When Regional Rivalries Become Local Crises

Pakistan, July 17 -- Look at the map from the Horn of Africa across the Red Sea to Yemen and a pattern becomes difficult to ignore. Political questions that were never properly settled are now being d... Read More


Constitutional Tug of War: Who Should Appoint Pakistan's Judges?

Pakistan, July 17 -- Part 1: The Rope As Hamilton put it in The Federalist Papers: "Liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with e... Read More


When Faith Defends The Rivers: Ayatollah Sistani's Environmental Challenge To The Muslim World

Pakistan, July 17 -- There are moments when a religious ruling transcends theology and enters the realm of public morality. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's recent declaration that the pollution of Ir... Read More


The Difficult Woman

Pakistan, July 17 -- The murder of Qandeel Baloch in July 2016 was not a rupture in the Pakistani social fabric but a brutal consolidation of it. Her brother, who justified strangling her by claiming,... Read More


Collaboration Or Dependence? The Hidden Question Behind University Rankings

Pakistan, July 17 -- Global university rankings have become powerful indicators of institutional prestige and performance. Systems such as QS, Times Higher Education, and others assess universities us... Read More