Opinion

Pakistan signals a new doctrine, striking Taliban bases to deter TTP, end strategic restraint

US-China tech war reshapes power, supply chains, global geopolitics

India races ahead in AI as Pakistan looks to China to harness youth, tech potential

A student’s heartfelt plea for fairness, dignity, protection, honest teaching in the classroom

Excavating possibilities during war

India’s Act East shows power of strategic realism

Collapse begins where moral cohesion erodes

Karachi’s plural reality challenges ethnic ownership myths

Kabul's strategy seems to be one of denial and allegations

Pakistan faces a deepening emergency of youth drug abuse and suicide

The fetish of theorisation, a growing tendency among scholars to seek a theoretical footing for every set of data

Are remittances stabilising the economy?

BNP’s victory represents a resurgence of dynastic politics

Pakistan’s evolving terror threat demands reform beyond force alone

US-Iran brinkmanship risks regional war as pride, proxies and politics collide

In the Indian Ocean, logistics hubs are the new tools of power

Afghanistan’s deepest struggle is not foreign invasion, but building an inclusive state across ethnic fault lines

Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions deepen as proxy warfare fuels escalation

Behind closed doors, fear masquerades as discipline

Geopolitics, supremacist ideologies are reshaping alliances from South Asia to Washington

Penderel Moon’s quiet dissent exposed the moral limits of the British Raj

Subversion plus insurgency erodes state legitimacy from within, demanding urgent reform

Epstein controversy fuels claims of an Indo-Israeli axis, wider geopolitical intrigue

Fasting trains character; on campus, worship must walk with responsibility

Role-playing can fix Pakistan’s skills crisis — no budget required

In Sukkur Jail, Benazir’s isolation forged a leader beyond lineage

The crisis facing Muslims today is not belief, but meaning

One AI course won’t fix systemic gaps in Pakistan’s higher education

Women and men are equal in responsibilities, the purpose is the same: to live a meaningful life

The relationship between a teacher and his studentshas undergone a dominantly negative change

Neuroroyalism focuses on making public policy that does not necessarily aim to bring about national gain

The government explicitly linked it to circumstances created by prolonged counterterrorism operations in KP, then FATA

No regional consensus exists for war with Iran

Gulfstream excess exposes governance failure

Civic Islam and decentralisation offer a way forward

Moral choices feel futile in a system rigged for power

CPEC promise falters amid distrust, controls and insecurity

From AI creators to AI consumers: capitalism without workers

Article 140-A pledges power, provinces keep control

Factional rifts expose MQM-P’s struggle in a changing metropolis

Even limited exposure to subsidised American dairy imports could devastate local producers

Climate justice demands taxing carbon at the top, not the bottom

Does time flow, or is reality a static four-dimensional block?

In Lahore, art, dialogue turn February into a season of hope

Ethnic strife in Manipur demands political courage

Appeasement won’t work; consistent policy and reform might

With New START gone, nuclear restraint gives way to rivalry

When wealth shapes policy, elections risk becoming theatre

Gen Z mirrors G. K. Chesterton’s fence analogy: quick to remove barriers without asking why they exist

Species loss, dead rivers, deforestation threaten all life