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The Ledger and the Legend of Pakistan’s Missing
In the grey zone, a name on a list can travel further than a missile. Pakistan’s ‘missing persons’ debate is a case study in how
Haleema Khalid
In the grey zone, a name on a list can travel further than a missile. Pakistan’s ‘missing persons’ debate is a case study in how
On 5 October, at the latest round of regional consultations on Afghanistan, the Taliban authorities in Kabul heard what they have long wanted to hear
On the morning of 23 July 2026, District and Sessions Judge Abdul Hakeem Kakar set out from Quetta for the sessions court in Mastung. He
Pakistan’s 2023 census recorded a national population of 247,541,947 people, but the way this population is administered has barely changed since colonial times. Punjab alone
In late June 2026, a convoy of roughly a thousand special forces fighters rolled into Badakhshan, Afghanistan’s northeastern-most province. They were not there to fight
Years of reading situation reporting on Afghanistan teach you to distrust the loud claim and pay attention to the quiet one. Not the casualty count
What if the most consequential funding relationship in the Ukraine war is not between Washington and Kyiv, but between Washington and Moscow? Follow the money.
From Ukraine to Gwadar, a map drawn in 1904 is quietly explaining every major crisis in the world today. Classical geopolitics never left.
The military onslaught launched by Israel on Gaza has pushed the Palestinian territory into an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. What began as a large-scale military operation