Bajaur jirga issues a 70-day ultimatum, mixing genuine demands with controversial calls that risk disrupting legal and constitutional norms.
The Balochistan Liberation Army’s campaign of ethnic violence is a calculated strategy to divide society, hinder the development, and derail peace in the region.
A tribal jirga in Mirali demands an end to Pakistan’s military actions against the TTP, yet fails to condemn terrorism, exposing a complex security dilemma. The state’s strategic restraint, tribal politics, and cross-border tensions with Afghanistan all converge in this growing crisis.
In an era defined by nuclear anxieties, great power recalibrations, and regional arms races, the global discourse on nonproliferation must be rooted in nuance, history,
Punjab’s push for solar-powered tube wells, though intended to boost agriculture, is accelerating groundwater depletion and posing serious risks to food security and public health.
At a time when the global order is increasingly defined by unpredictability and polarization, the meeting between Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Syed
With Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion” pushing Iran towards regime change, Pakistan faces an immediate and severe threat. Its long border could become a battlefield, nuclear security questioned, diplomatic ties strained between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the economy crippled by oil price spikes and internal unrest.
CPEC, the flagship of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, is transforming Pakistan through enhanced connectivity, infrastructure, industrial growth, and regional integration, positioning the country as a future geo-economic hub.
The recent Pakistan-India crisis redefined modern warfare, highlighting different “Rules of Engagement.” Pakistan showed strategic restraint and used advanced technology to deter full-scale war, while India escalated quickly under nuclear risks. The conflict expanded into cyber and civilian targets, broadening the battleground. Pakistan’s effective use of C4I2 command systems limited Indian advances and maintained balance. India’s aggressive policies and diplomatic isolation were exposed during the crisis.
Pakistan’s emergence as a nuclear power on May 28, 1998, was shaped by deep security anxieties following the 1971 war and India’s 1974 nuclear test. Spearheaded by leaders like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and advanced under military stewardship, the program combined scientific innovation—led by Dr. A.Q. Khan—with a covert procurement network. The 1998 Chagai tests, responding to India’s Pokhran-II, marked Pakistan’s entry into the nuclear club, framed as a bid to restore regional strategic balance. Despite immediate sanctions, international responses soon softened. Nuclearization has since fostered a fragile deterrence in South Asia—curbing full-scale war while enabling low-intensity conflict, encapsulating the region’s enduring “stability-instability paradox.