Amnesty Questions India-Israel Defense Trade
India’s Afghanistan Gambit: What Delhi Really Wants from Kabul
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy reflects a significant shift in India’s strategic outlook. Unlike the traditional image of India as a secular state guided primarily by non-alignment and pragmatic diplomacy, the Modi era has increasingly exhibited ideological and civilisational influences associated with Hindutva. This transformation is visible not only in India’s domestic politics but […]
Another Setback for Taliban Regime as Resistance Operations Intensify in Badakhshan
Since returning to power nearly five years ago, the Taliban have sought to project an image of complete territorial control and internal stability. Through official statements and state media, they consistently portray Afghanistan as secure, unified, and free from organized armed opposition under Taliban rule. However, developments across northern Afghanistan, including the latest claim by […]
A Season of Accusations and Our International Moment
This July added another entry to a growing list of uncomfortable international assessments about Pakistan. The European Commission’s GSP+ monitoring report, covering 2023 to 2025, flagged concerns ranging from forced labour risks to weaknesses in Pakistan’s legal environment. Days later, a UK-based labour rights group released its own account of factory conditions, echoing allegations of […]
Unpacking Interior Minister’s Call for Administrative Reforms
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s press conference this week touched on a set of issues that Pakistan’s political class has circled around for decades without resolving. And the frankness with which he raised them deserves attention, even if the solutions he floated remain contested. The starting point, population as a tool of provincial leverage, is a […]
Al-Mirsad Cannot Whitewash Taliban’s Terror Record
Al-Mirsad has once again turned its pen against Pakistan, accusing Islamabad of sponsoring terrorism. The claim arrives without evidence, without documentation, and without the credibility that comes from independent scrutiny. That is because Al-Mirsad is not an independent outlet. It functions as the Taliban’s propaganda arm, tasked with directing global attention away from what Afghanistan […]
UNAMA’s Distorted Narrative of Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Effort
When a state loses over 900 of its citizens to cross border terrorism in a matter of months, the conversation cannot begin with semantics. It has to begin with the dead, the wounded, and the families left behind in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. This is the backdrop against which Pakistan has firmly pushed back on […]
Taliban Rule Deepens Afghanistan’s Human Rights Crisis: UNAMA
The latest UNAMA update on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, covering April to June 2026 and released on 28 July, reads less like an incremental progress report and more like a catalogue of a system tightening its grip. Four and a half years after seizing power, the Taliban have moved well past the early […]
The Baloch Question
It is a moot point now whether it is the unameliorated socio-economic conditions or the unassuaged psycho-social grievances that are the cause of the present unrest in Balochistan. The aetiology of the sixth uprising in Balochistan features longstanding grievance narrative and a persistent governance deficit in the restive province. The diurnal attacks by the BLA […]