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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

US withdrawal and Taliban advances in Afghanistan

The latest US-Taliban peace pact is unlikely to deliver peace to Afghanistan, is geopolitically unfavorable for Pakistan, and has major ramifications for our national...

Korybko’s response to Zakharov: Let’s clarify the Russo-Indo divergence in Afghanistan

Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and former Visiting Fellow at the prestigious Observer Research Foundation...

Justice for everyone: A complicated fight against inequalities

Crime is a result of a cost-benefit analysis that a criminal does in his mind before committing the act. He systematically evaluates that if...

Noor Mukadam case: A need to reform Pakistan’s justice system

With the hashtag ‘#JusticeForNoor’ circulating all over social media and a million petitions signed over Facebook and Twitter, the nerve-wracking news of the brutal...

Pakistan’s defective investigations don’t help anyone except criminals

Investigation has a cornerstone role to be played in criminal administration of justice. In Pakistan, it is being played by the local police. It...

PIA, Railways once the top notch institutions reduced to burden the nation

According to the fable of the boiling frog, if he is thrown in boiling water, he will immediately jump out. The trick is to...

The right to liberty and law of bail in Pakistan

The right to liberty and personal freedom is universally recognized as a basic and fundamental right of every individual. On this note, Barrister Pansota talks about the intricacies of laws regarding the right to bail and when bail can be canceled.

How to uplift the people of Balochistan

Rahim Baloch, the owner of Mehran Hotel in Karachi, is a UAE national with Pakistani ancestry. He has a few hotels in Dubai also....

Questioning FATF’s prejudice against Pakistan

Pakistan continues to be on FATF's grey list which makes us wonder whether or not FATF is deliberately being unfair to Pakistan. Muhammad Akhtar questions FATF's reputation and how it is falling for India's propaganda of keeping Pakistan isolated from the international community.

B3W vs BRI: More than just a competition between US & China?

Abdul Samad Khan talks about the Belt and Road Initiative by China and the Build Back Better plan by the G7 countries and what this will mean for the rest of the world. He further points out how both these plans are different from each other and not a matter of competition as the world is perceiving it to be.

Rise of Taliban: Afghanistan going back to square one?

With the US leaving Afghanistan, hopes abounded that the Afghan refugees living in Pakistan would return back to their country. However, according to Hamza Qamar, chances of that happening are deteriorating every day because the Taliban are consistently gaining ground and not ready to compromise over the established democratic system in Afghanistan.

Why must Suez Canal and Egypt be included in the US’s Indo-Pacific Strategy?

A Middle East Institute scholar, Mohammed Soliman, has recently written about the significance of Egypt and the Suez Canal in his piece titled "There...