Pakistan is not simply “falling behind” in an AI arms race. It has adopted a deliberate and measured approach to military AI. That approach draws on decades of counterinsurgency experience and manages
For 48 hours, the global economy teetered on the edge of a “quagmire.” With Brent crude hitting $119 and a U.S. ultimatum for the “obliteration” of Iranian energy infrastructure ticking toward zero,
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The latest escalation in the Middle East has brought global energy markets back to a familiar point of strain: the vulnerability of supply routes concentrated in a handful of geopolitical chokepoints. At
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In a time when oil prices are soaring to frightening levels all over the world and supply chains are stretched to the breaking point, the ongoing conflict with Iran has played out
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Pakistan as a possible mediator in America’s war against Iran is not a surprise. Pakistan and its powerful military leader, Gen. Asim Munir, has held meetings with both Iran and Saudi Arabia,
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Bangladesh’s newly elected Prime Minister, Taraque Ramana, has issued a statement on Genocide Day, directly addressing the events of March 25, 1971, and openly criticizing the role of Pakistan in what he
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As tensions intensify between the United States, Israel, and Iran, a new diplomatic centre is quietly taking shape in Islamabad. Recent reports suggesting that Pakistan may host a high-level summit, potentially involving
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Energy expert Vaqar Zakaria is living proof that solar power can change the economics of everyday life. For over five years, his rooftop panels in Islamabad have slashed his electricity bills, sometimes
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) stood as a rare constant in an otherwise volatile relationship between India and Pakistan. Signed in 1960, it survived wars, military crises,
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For decades, Pakistan has been described as “strategically located.” The phrase is convenient, but it understates the reality. Pakistan does not simply occupy space between regions-it sits within the fault lines that
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At approximately 9 p.m. on 16 March 2026, an airstrike hit the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation facility near the city’s international airport, destroying large sections of
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As global attention remains fixed on the war in Iran, another conflict-quieter but no less consequential is unfolding to its east. Since late February 2026, Afghanistan and Pakistan have slipped into what
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On March 16, the Taliban Government of Afghanistan accused the Pakistani military of conducting an airstrike that killed more than 400 people and injured 250 [the UN later revises the death toll
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At least 400 people have been killed and around 250 others injured following reported airstrikes in Kabul, in what Afghan authorities describe as one of the deadliest incidents in the capital in
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Pakistan’s government is preparing to introduce fuel-saving and austerity measures after global oil prices surged above $100 per barrel and gas supply disruptions in the Middle East triggered panic buying in the
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On March 7, 2026, three Policemen were killed while 31 people, including five Policemen and 26 civilians, were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the Rustam Bazaar area of
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