Book Review: Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security
Book Title and Author’s Name: Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security, Nicholas Grossman. I.B. Tauris, 2018, 240. As the world continues to struggle in understanding the revolutionary paradigm of drones, their usage in multidimensional spaces, from surveillance to combat, terrorists to law enforcement, has created a never-ending loop of entanglements. […]
The Challenge to Taliban Rule Is No Longer Just Military, It’s Religious
A religious scholar has just done something the Taliban likely feared more than any battlefield defeat. He questioned their legitimacy in the language they claim as their own. Maulvi Tariq Usman, a prominent religious scholar from Afghanistan, argued that armed resistance against the Taliban is in fact permissible under Sharia under the current circumstances. For […]
Afghan Resistance Issues Warning to Foreign Terrorists in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s resistance has just issued its bluntest ultimatum yet. The National Resistance Front and its allied fighting groups have told every foreign terrorist operating under Taliban patronage to pack up and leave the country immediately, or be treated as a target on the battlefield. No more ambiguity. The message landed with a simple but forceful […]
Afghanistan’s Regime Increasingly on the Defensive Amidst Expanding Resistance
Afghanistan is witnessing a marked escalation in armed and popular resistance against the Taliban regime, a development that speaks less to the ambitions of scattered opposition groups and more to the accumulating weight of the regime’s own conduct toward its people. Political repression, ethnic discrimination, social coercion and the steady erosion of basic human rights […]
Hiroshima at 81: What South Asia’s Nuclear States Still Haven’t Learned?
In the years following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the international community has continued to commemorate one of history’s greatest tragedies. These annual remembrances keep alive the memory of the immense humanitarian devastation caused by nuclear weapons and remind the world that the consequences of nuclear war extend far beyond the battlefield. While the events […]
Pakistan’s Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: A Growing Threat
The images emerging from Pakistan’s northern mountains tell an all-too-familiar story. Once again, floods have devastated the region. Roads disappear beneath mudslides, bridges are washed away within seconds, villages become isolated, and families are forced to abandon homes that have stood for generations. While heavy monsoon rains often dominate media coverage, another environmental disaster is […]
Five Years of Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis
When the Taliban marks its fifth anniversary in power on 15 August 2026, the defining figures will not concern governance or diplomacy. They will reflect hunger, healthcare, and the daily struggle for survival. Human Rights Watch’s latest assessment, released on 3 August, together with UNAMA’s monitoring for April–June 2026, paints a picture of a humanitarian […]
Pakistan Commemorates Kashmir Black Day
Black flags will be raised across Pakistan today, and rallies will move through cities from Muzaffarabad to Karachi, as the nation observes what has become one of its most solemn annual rituals of protest. Youm-e-Istehsal, the Day of Exploitation, commemorates the fifth of August 2019, when India dismantled the special constitutional status of Jammu and […]
Induced Chaos
Pakistan does not have an instability problem. It is afflicted by an instability-inducing system. The distinction matters, because a problem can be solved while a system has to be understood before it can be dismantled. For years, the country’s internal crises have been analysed as separate events. Each is treated as its own story, with […]