Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Pakistan.
In mid-May 2026, an article by Mohammad Altaf Afridi, a former USAID program director in Pakistan, published in The Guardian attracted considerable…
In a future crisis between India and Pakistan, the most dangerous moment may not be the first strike but the minutes before…
Mainstream Pakistan is basking in (self)glory. As host of the US-Iran negotiations ā rumours of a second-round abuzz ā Islamabad is upbeat.…
I was standing near the Taftan border crossing three weeks ago, watching the dust kick up in a way that felt aggressive.…
The street market in the Afghan border town of Torkham in Nangraha province has āgone silent.ā Anxiety about the future is rising…
There is a painful truth in Balochistan that rarely reaches the outside world. Families who barely survive on low incomes still gather…
In the Global South, climate summits arrive like monsoons ā heavy with promise, quick to pass. We gather each year to count pledges…
It has been more than three weeks since the massacre in Muridke, and yet, like every other atrocity in Pakistanās recent history,…
Pakistan reveals that Israeli drone operators attempted to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities during the India-Pakistan crisis in May. This is a major…
On 2nd May 2025, in the scorching heat of Turbat, women and children blocked the road at D-Baloch Kech, they demanded, not…
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