True progress in Pakistan requires a cultural shift away from coercion, arrogance toward self-accountability

Strategic competence grew in 2025, while legitimacy, inclusion steadily eroded

Manipulation can make religion look irrational, oppressive or irrelevant to youth

Early Islamic model, based on collaboration, contrasts with today’s political systems rooted in coercion

Religion boosts or blocks development, depends on how leaders balance faith with reason

The Abraham Accords mark a major regional shift but bypass Palestine, leaving their long-term stability in doubt

A reflection on how Quranic narratives of justice, arrogance, moral decay mirror the crises, choices of our time

There is a moment, chilling in its clarity, when you realise that a state is no longer run by rules but by moods

From corruption to terrorism, our obsession with short-term fixes deepens crises instead of solving them

Public service has become synonymous with arrogance rather than duty, reflecting colonial hangover