The Shaky US-India Defence Deal
Who would have thought that a few months after the USA’s economic blows, India would be shaking hands with it over a decade-long defense...
27th Constitutional Amendment: Reforms in Armed Forces Command
Prior to the 1971 war with India, the tri-service coordination was nonexistent resulting in weak jointness in military operation and a painful setback. The...
2025: the year of Regime Change in Iran
2025 has two major conflicts in the first half of the calendar year whose impact would be felt still as the year closes; the...
Massacre at Bondi Beach
The massacre in Sydney at Bondi Beach was ugly, and I’m not talking about what the Australian cricket team has done to England’s, though...
Stability or More Conflicts?
In Asia, one of the most drastic shifts in power is a significant transformation that is reshaping the continent’s geopolitics, driven by the expansion...
Silence of the Safe City in the Alleys of Crime
The implementation of the e-challan system in Karachi has undeniably marked a new chapter in the city’s traffic management infrastructure. The advanced cameras installed...
Learning Without Walls
“The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children aged five to 16 years.” With this bold promise, Article 25-A of Pakistan’s...
When loyalty replaces responsibility
When the new Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was announced recently, not by voters or public mandate, but by a directive from a jailed...
How China’s open-source AI models are democratizing AI globally
In the sleek boardrooms of London, Singapore, and Dubai, the traditional narrative of the global artificial intelligence race is being rewritten. For years, the...
The mineral chessboard
The last great scramble for strategic advantage was fought with tank columns and tanker convoys; the next will be fought with magnets so tiny...
The short end of the stick
AT PENPOINT
No sooner had the IMF released the new conditions it had set during its last review that rumours started of moving into another...
The limits of legal silence
Pakistan’s criminal law defines rape with apparent clarity, yet one exception continues to shape the boundaries of legal protection within marriage. Under Section 375...
A quiet crisis of conscience
I came to the legal profession carrying a certain kind of innocence. I was trained at elite law schools, shaped by ideas of constitutionalism,...
From Fentanyl to WMDs
On December 15, US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order formally designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as weapons of...
‘Islamabad, Cairo, Ankara’
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Deputy PM /Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar and a couple of other Federal Ministers were quite frequently visiting...