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Empathy Is Not Partisanship: Pakistan Stands With Iran the Way Peacemakers Must

When Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on 4 July 2026 to attend the

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Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations

The Amir’s Order Cannot Be Questioned: Why the Taliban’s Doctrine of Blind Obedience Cannot Justify Threats Against Pakistan

A theological and legal deconstruction of the Taliban’s absolutist military decrees under classical Hanafi jurisprudence and scriptural texts. When Sheikh Abdulhadi Hemat, head of the

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The Islamabad International Conference on the Indus Waters Treaty and the Defense of Pakistan’s Sovereignty

Critical analysis of the June 2026 international conference, exposing India’s structural water fluctuations, international arbitration verdicts, and the weaponization of transboundary waterways. The daylong international

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Paramilitary soldiers and police officers stand guard on a road cordoned off near the site of an attack by an armed group at the provincial headquarters of the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 28, 2026 [Ali Raza/AP]

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The Architecture of Coercive Information: How Selective Outrage Sanitizes the Afghan Terror Ecosystem

Analyzing how compromised remote monitors and selective humanitarian reporting amplify Taliban-vetted propaganda while ignoring the structural embedding of transnational terror networks. The international community’s response

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The Accountability Asymmetry: How UNAMA’s Selective Reporting Sanitizes Afghan-Based Terror Infrastructure

How selective reporting and Taliban intimidation turn international assistance missions into a propaganda shield for cross-border terror networks. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

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BBC headquarters in Central London. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA

Counter-Terrorism

BBC Urdu Does Not Need Bullets to Target Pakistan, Its Words Do the Job

The line between editorial independence and deliberate narrative construction is crossed when a media outlet consistently softens the identity of violent actors while structurally undermining

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Afghanistan

What Europe Now Says About Afghanistan Matters

Recent statements by British and European envoys signal a decisive shift in how the West frames Afghanistan-based terrorism, and validate concerns Pakistan has long raised alone

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Former US Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad, whose claims questioning Pakistan's diplomacy are contradicted by four years of documented bilateral engagement and successive UN monitoring reports on terrorist safe havens in Afghanistan

Counter-Terrorism

Khalilzad’s Claims Ignore Four Years of Documented Pakistani Diplomacy and His Own Catastrophic Record in Afghanistan

There is a particular kind of audacity that comes from men who have failed comprehensively at something and then returned, without apparent embarrassment, to lecture

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Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad handing over DPM/FM’s Letter on India’s IWT Violations to the President of the Security Council

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When Water Becomes a Weapon: Pakistan Takes the Indus Battle to the UN Security Council

On 18 June 2026, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, walked into the Security Council and handed a letter to Ambassador Leonor

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