Pakistan Condemns Colombia’s Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty Over Occupied Syrian Golan Heights
Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a troubling milestone in the erosion of international consensus on territorial occupation. With this move, Bogota becomes only the second UN member state, after the United States in 2019, to formally break from the near universal position that the Golan remains occupied […]
Taliban Rule at Five: What Changed, What Didn’t
The promises and expectations attached to the Taliban since February 29, 2020, when Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar signed the Doha Agreement, largely disappeared after the group took control of Kabul on 15 August 2021. The international community, especially neighbouring countries, expected a similar code of conduct to that followed […]
Startup Pakistan: Venture Capital Trends in 2026
Pakistan’s startup industry has improved in 2026 after being affected sharply in 2023–2024 due to macroeconomic instability. Today, the main concern is the nature of the recovery rather than prominent funding figures. After the industry’s decline in recent years, investors are returning selectively rather than flooding the market as they did during the 2021–2022 period. […]
Subverted From Within
India does not need to send agents into Azad Jammu and Kashmir to destabilise. It needs only to wait for administrative failures to produce a grievance, position its information apparatus to capture that grievance before the state can respond to it and reframe a dispute about flour subsidies as evidence of oppression. That is precisely […]
Kashmir’s Curfew Generation: A Seven-Year Portrait
Six years after India stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status on August 5, 2019, the region remains caught in a state of stability and instability. It is caught between deeper constitutional ties to India, ongoing political push back, and an international dispute that has yet to end. When New Delhi scrapped Articles 370 […]
The White in Pakistan’s Flag
There is a detail in Pakistan’s flag that millions see, few question, and fewer still know the story behind. Every August, as the green and white flag is raised across government buildings, schools, homes and streets, attention naturally falls on the crescent, the star and the deep green field. But along one edge of that […]
Pakistan’s Defense Role in West Asia: A New Trajectory
The signing of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement on August 7, 2026, by Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and Pakistan signals a genuine recalibration of how three major Muslim-majority states have chosen to formalize collective deterrence at a moment when the region’s old security guarantees look increasingly unreliable. Despite each having distinct strengths and historically uneven relationships, […]
Azad Kashmir Protest Movement Stalls as Dispute Over Refugee Seats Deepens
Four years ago, the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) emerged as a major force of public protest in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. People protested over rising electricity bills, shrinking wheat subsidies, and the soaring cost of living. These protests drew the authorities’ attention, and most of the economic problems that had triggered the movement received some form […]
The Lessons Taught by Strait of Hormuz
For the students of strategic affairs especially those who started believing in the diminishing role of geography in military strategy due to rapid technological advancement, Strait of Hormuz episode has offered some rethinking. The Strait has been effectively controlled by Iran ever since the war was started by the US and Israel and despite all […]