Waiting for Nipah while off a pig farm
One of the most serious issues that has faced us for a couple of years is the arrival of the Nipah virus in the...
The role of medical centres in plastic pollution
Medical centres are established to treat diseases and serve humanity, yet the plastic pollution generated by these same institutions is becoming a silent threat...
The Fog of AI and Fragile Deterrence in South Asia
Modern warfare is being changed by artificial intelligence, but not in the sense that it will replace soldiers; it will simply alter the perception...
The Putin Doctrine
For more than two decades, President Vladimir Putin has been the central figure shaping Russia’s political life and foreign policy outlook. Yet to speak...
Divided regions, disadvantaged youth
Pakistan’s development story has long been marked by a quiet but persistent imbalance, where opportunity is shaped less by merit than by geography and...
Redefining Immigration
In Pakistan’s immigration discourse, speed is increasingly mistaken for reform. On January 13, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and a high-level UAE delegation led by...
Final Countdown for Iran
After weeks of attrition, the ultimate clash between the Republican-led Neo-Cons, encapsulated in the POTUS, and the system of government of its own kind,...
A new trade Axis
The era when global trade was commanded by a narrow axis of industrial powers and relying on Western markets is collapsing. On January 27,...
Snow, militancy and the cost of incompetence
High in the mountains of Tirah Valley in District Khyber of KP, where the air is thin and snow blankets the valleys like a...
Trump’s march toward imperialism?
Has the USA crossed an invisible threshold— moving from the imperfect discipline of democracy toward the raw logic of imperial power? This question now...
Transfer of technology?
US President Donald Trump’s latest manoeuvres show signs of his learning from Israel, as the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro resembled the kidnapping...
Home truths
An integral part of education is to get called out when one says something particularly silly. Parents and siblings need to do it at...
Drug abuse a deepening threat to society
Drug abuse has grown to be a deeply ingrained societal catastrophe that is steadily undermining Pakistan's socioeconomic structure and posing one of the biggest...
The cost of coercion in US–Canada relations
For decades, the relationship between the USA and Canada belonged to the category of geopolitical facts so stable they barely required analysis. A shared...
Addressing South Asia’s Education-Employment Gap
Today, the education a student chooses is not just a personal choice. It can shape his or her career and affect the country’s economy...