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
On the evening of April 22, at least 10 people, including a Turkish national, were killed while several others sustained injuries in an attack at a copper and gold project site in
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There is a theory in media studies called Agenda-Setting. It suggests that the media doesn’t just tell you what to think; it tells you what to think about. For the better part
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Pakistan’s most visible foreign policy gambits in recent years are its attempts to position as a mediator in the conflict between US, Israel and Iran. Pakistan has stepped forward to host talks,
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I just woke up in Islamabad in the middle of the night, around 2 AM, and could not go back to sleep. I picked up my phone, started scrolling through the news,
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In today’s strategic landscape, influence isn’t shaped only by military strength or economic weight. Increasingly, it is built through narratives-formed, circulated, and contested across digital spaces that don’t recognize borders. In that
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Over the past two decades, Afghanistan has cycled through war, foreign intervention, and fragile attempts at political transition. The Taliban’s return in August 2021—twenty years after their removal by U.S.-led forces—marked a
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On April 11, 2026, a 25-year-old Christian woman of Shahkot in Nankana Sahib District of Punjab Province was allegedly raped by a local contractor, Faizan Mehboob Rehmani and his accomplice, in her
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On April 17, 2026, a Policeman, identified as Constable Khadim Ali Shah, was killed and another Constable, identified as Mohammed Tufail Khan, was injured in an attack by armed assailants in Manghopir
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I have followed global leaders for years, but few have impressed me as deeply as Pakistan’s Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir. In an era of loud rhetoric and fragile alliances, he has
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Punjab is witnessing a troubling pattern of attacks, particularly on police establishments, indicating a calibrated attempt by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to revive coordinated violence through hybrid means – an amalgamation of
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More The government in Islamabad is under strain as it attempts to manage a sensitive regional environment through a dual-track foreign policy: maintaining active engagement with Saudi Arabia while simultaneously deepening high-level outreach
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In Balochistan, disappearance has become more than an allegation. It has become a method of rule, a language of fear, and, for many families, the most intimate face of the Pakistani state.
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Islamabad does not feel ordinary these days. There is a quiet tension in the air, not the kind that comes from crisis, but the kind that signals something is actively unfolding behind
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Across the globe, the tools of conflict are evolving. In South Asia, the erosion of the Indus Waters Treaty is transforming rivers into instruments of strategic leverage between India and Pakistan. Half
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