Banned JAAC’s Audio Leak Exposes the Violence Behind the Veil of Peaceful Protest
There is a particular kind of political deception that is especially dangerous, not the overt kind that announces its intentions, but the kind that wraps coercive and violent objectives in the language of peaceful civil society. The banned Joint Awami Action Committee had, for months, presented itself to domestic audiences and foreign sympathizers alike as […]
Herat Residents Return to Streets Demanding Women’s Rights as Taliban Deploys Tanks and Armed Forces to Suppress Civilian Protesters
There is a moment in the life of every authoritarian system when the architecture of repression begins to reveal not the strength of the regime but the depth of its failure. Herat, in the second week of June 2026, has produced that moment with uncomfortable clarity. Residents gathered outside the Taliban governor’s office, not armed, […]
The Mandarins Among Us – Disturbing Realities of Bureaucratic Power in Pakistan
Why do thousands chase CSS? Beyond prestige lies a colonial power structure that continues to shape governance, privilege, and authority in Pakistan.
Marka-e-Haq and the Cognitive Dimension of Modern Warfare
How did Marka-e-Haq expose the growing role of cognitive warfare? From strategic communication to digital disinformation, the conflict showed that modern wars are fought as much in minds as on battlefields.
The Childhood We Keep Stealing: World Day Against Child Labour
The Childhood We Keep Stealing Somewhere in the Sahel this morning, a child woke up before sunrise. Not to get ready for school. Not to eat breakfast with their family. They woke up because the goats needed feeding, the fields needed working, and their family needed the few coins their labour would earn before the […]
Taliban Opens Fire on Herat Protesters Demanding Release of Women Arrested for Dress Code Violations, Killing at Least Two People
What occurred in Herat’s Jibrail district on 9 June 2026 is not, by any rigorous analytical measure, a singular event. It is a data point, the latest and among the most viscerally documented in a longitudinal pattern of state-sanctioned violence against Afghan women and those who dare to defend them. Multiple severe pieces of footage […]
UNAMA Amplifies Taliban Civilian Casualty Claims Without Investigating Whether Struck Compounds Were Active TTP Terrorist Hideouts
There is a question that UNAMA has consistently declined to answer, and its continued silence on that question is itself a form of institutional failure. When Pakistani strikes hit compounds in Khost, Kunar, and Paktika, UNAMA moves swiftly to document and publicize casualty figures. What it does not do and what it has never done […]
Russia and Pakistan: Strategic Drivers of the Partnership at the Cusp of Shifting Global Order
How Russia and Pakistan are recalibrating their partnership amid changing global power dynamics, Eurasian integration, and strategic shifts.
How Great-Power Rivalry Broke the UN Sanctions Regime
The West’s blocking of BLA sanctions at the UNSC reveals how geopolitical competition is hollowing out the UN’s counterterrorism architecture, and what Pakistan must do next.