Pahalgam to Sindoor – The disguised legality of a political strike
By: Rafey Altaf
Let us begin by briefly examining some key facts. On April 23, 2025 — a day after the terrorist attack...
Choosing survival over stupidity
The trio of India’s MAD – Modi, Amit and Doval – is hell bent upon bringing the 1.6b people to a brink...
Austerity, economic growth and taxation
In an April 2025 released report by World Bank Group (WBG) titled ‘South Asia Development Update: Taxing Times’, some of the main...
CLAIMING IT WON
It’s gone beyond the Indian Chief of Air Staff. It’s reached the Indian Prime Minister himself. The IAF was beaten fair and...
The unthinkable environmental catastrophe
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Bleeding Gaza a test of global conscience
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Collapse of an emerging power
"We are meant to be the world's leaders."
For years, these lofty statements were heard on Indian political stages. With wild joy, television...
Russia and China redefine the global order
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Experiments versus Realities
The Sindh Education Department has recently introduced a series of ambitious reforms, including the Cluster School System, the abolition of key administrative...
The Stakes Behind US-China Trade Talks
The global economy now finds itself in an era of uneasy transition— between the liberal order of the past and the fragmented,...
The fire next time
AT PENPOINT
The ceasefire between India and Pakistan was hogged by US President Donald Trump, who seems to have been only too pleased...
Pro-Palestine protester crackdown exposes US authoritarian core
America has long presented itself as the greatest guardian of democracy in the world. Freedom of speech, human rights, rule of law...
Pakistan reasserts strategic equilibrium in a fractured South Asia
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On acts of God
In the insurance industry, an ‘Act of God’ refers to an uncontrollable and unpreventable event outside of human control– typically a natural...
Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos
The measure of a nation’s strength is not only found in its military might, but in the clarity of its purpose and...