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
In the Jean-Jacques Annaud film based on William Craig’s 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, Nikita Khrushchev, immediately after arriving in Stalingrad front as the new principal commissar, deputed by
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana History is not a distant tale embalmed in the sepia of old photographs; it is a living, breathing
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by Nil Julian Richards’ Pakistan’s ISI: A Concise History of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate stands as an incisive, unflinching inquiry into one of the world’s most enigmatic and polarising intelligence services. Written
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In the third quarter-Q3 of 2025, spanning July to September, Pakistan witnessed a dramatic escalation in insurgent and terrorist violence, marking a significant deterioration in its security landscape. According to a report
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Pakistan’s central bank governor has said inflation is expected to hold steady in the coming months, though the prospect of further interest-rate cuts will depend on the economic fallout from recent floods
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The violent unrest that gripped Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) in late September and early October 2025 has once again exposed the deep fissures between the region’s population and the Pakistani state.
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Despite the age of the narrative, wars are won by the side which can wield the big stick and not lofty words. Theodore Roosevelt the 26th President of the United States, from 1901
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The much-awaited olive branch from India to the Trump Administration to let bygones be bygones comes as a pleasant surprise with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exuberant support for the Gaza Plan congratulating
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Pakistan has floated an ambitious proposal to the United States to build and operate a port on the Arabian Sea at Pasni, a seaside town just 70 miles from Gwadar and 100
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The recent wave of disinformation targeting Pakistan’s security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) reflects a recurring pattern in the politics of terrorism and identity in South Asia. As someone who has studied
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On September 23, 2025, Balochistan Chief Minister (CM) Sarfraz Bugti, joined by ruling and opposition leaders, announced the suspension of the controversial Balochistan Mines and Minerals Act 2025 via executive order. The decision followed
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Editor’s Note: The following column is based on excerpts from the latest issue of the CTC Sentinel, published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The massacre that unfolded in Pahalgam
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As reported on September 17, 2025, the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), Levies Force, Frontier Corps Balochistan, and Police destroyed poppy cultivation in 33,000 acres of land in the Killa Abdullah, Chaman, Pishin, Duki,
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A simulation of implications and responses of Pakistan Saudi Arabia Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement in the Middle East and South Asia Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on September 17th [2025] signed a Strategic Mutual
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Some two decades ago, I was invited to be the keynote speaker at a major Islamic conference. Instead of uttering the usual platitudes about Muslim unity, I rebuked the Muslim World for
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