For 17-year-old Zara Shah, an encounter that began while playing a computer game developed into a frightening experience of online sexual exploitation. A stranger initially approached her as a friend before asking
The ambitious and promising-looking talks between the US and Iran, especially those in Pakistan, were billed as the “Islamabad talks” or an “accord” that had not even lasted for twenty-four hours, leading
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty has endured as one of the most improbable success stories in modern diplomacy—an agreement between two adversarial states that managed to outlast wars,
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In an age that rewards moral certainty and viral storytelling, conflicts like Balochistan’s are increasingly flattened into stark binaries: oppressor and oppressed, state and victim, resistance and repression. These narratives travel fast,
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Vice President JD Vance has been thrust into the most consequential diplomatic role of his political career, after President Donald Trump appointed him to lead high-stakes peace negotiations with Iran, according to
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Editorial The language of peace, when deployed by states long entangled in cycles of militarisation and geopolitical opportunism, often invites not admiration but scrutiny. Pakistan’s latest overtures towards peace, accompanied by the
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The Middle East stood on the edge of a much bigger disaster earlier this week. On the night of April 8, 2026, US President Donald Trump suddenly announced a two-week ceasefire with
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In Afghanistan, humanitarian reporting has become one of the most influential lenses through which the crisis is understood internationally. Yet that lens is increasingly incomplete. By focusing heavily on civilian suffering without
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The recent ceasefire announcement and its immediate implementation have been widely viewed as an important diplomatic development for Pakistan. In a region where tensions can rise quickly and where mistrust often shapes
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I sat glued to my screen through the long, tense night of April 8, 2026, in Peshawar, watching history unfold in real time. The world held its breath as a U.S. deadline
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The recent repayment of a long-term deposit to the United Arab Emirates has been interpreted by some as a sign that Pakistan is once again under fiscal pressure. That reading doesn’t quite
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It is no longer credible to treat Afghanistan’s terrorism problem as a purely internal Afghan matter. Since the Taliban returned to Kabul in August 2021, Afghanistan has increasingly functioned as a permissive
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The Taliban present their rule as grounded in Sharia. Nearly five years after returning to power, Afghanistan is governed less as an Islamic system and more as a centralized structure of authority
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The liberal economic module allows fair participation of countries in the international market; however, it also imposes certain restrictions, such as rebranding products to enforce intellectual property rights and fair play. For
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Every major world crisis has provided Pakistan’s terror machinery with operational cover to strike India, timed with cold precision to moments of maximum international distraction or diplomatic leverage. On March 20, 2000,
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In the midst of growing tensions between global powers and conflicts in different parts of the world, which pose a serious threat to global stability, Pakistan has proved to be a principled
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