South Asia Times

Down The Line

Flags of the United States and Pakistan illustrating growing US-Pakistan partnership in renewable energy, climate action, and sustainable development.

Powering the Future: How the US-Pakistan Green Alliance is Driving Pakistan’s Renewable Energy Revolution

SAT Editorial Desk March 11, 2026

The Quiet Bargains Behind the West Asia War

SAT Editorial Desk March 7, 2026

Representative image of Pakistan-Afghanistan map.

What Was Different This Time? Pakistan-Afghanistan Skirmishes on the Pak-Afghan border

SAT Editorial Desk February 27, 2026

Ukrainian and Russian flags with soldier silhouettes representing ongoing conflict. [Image via Atlantic Council].

Russia–Ukraine War, Four Years Later

SAT Editorial Desk February 25, 2026

Pakistan’s urban growth is dangerously concentrated in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad, driving inequality, environmental collapse, and governance failure.

Pakistan’s Urbanization Problem

SAT Editorial Desk January 28, 2026

How India’s bureaucracy is being reshaped by ideology, coercion, and loyalty, eroding neutrality and transforming the administrative state.

Governing by Faith and Fear: Inside India’s Bureaucratic Transformation

SAT Editorial Desk January 26, 2026

The Taliban’s new criminal code entrenches a tiered justice system, privileging clerics and elites while harshly punishing the poor.

Afghanistan’s New Tiered Justice System

SAT Editorial Desk January 25, 2026

As multilateral norms erode, global politics is entering an interregnum where power, security, and transactional alliances increasingly define the international system.

The Global Interregnum: The Old World Is Dying, and the New Struggles to Be Born

SAT Editorial Desk January 24, 2026

Pakistan’s decision to join Gaza’s Board of Peace exposes a stark dilemma: strategic engagement to influence outcomes, or moral complicity in a managed peace that sidelines Palestinians.

Realpolitik or Moral Complicity? Pakistan and Gaza’s Board of Peace

SAT Editorial Desk January 22, 2026