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The geography of the Afghan-Pakistan border has long been a cartographer’s nightmare and a strategist’s crucible. It is a landscape defined by porous frontiers, ancient tribal loyalties, and the restless ghosts of great power interventions. For four years, Islamabad attempted to navigate this terrain through the language of diplomacy, extending offers of economic cooperation and strategic patience to the new reality across its western border. It sought mediation from Doha, engaged in shuttle diplomacy with Ankara, and waited for the promise of a stable, non-interventionist neighbor to materialize. That wait, it has now become painfully clear, was in vain. The…

By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal There is a particular quality to a story told at bedtime. It is a space apart from the clamor of the day, a deliberate dimming of the lights where hard lessons are softened by the cadence of a familiar voice. In this imagined scene from the year 2060, a grandmother employs that ancient ritual not to lull a child into forgetfulness, but to sharpen her conscience. It is a story about power, but told as a ghost story—a genre, one might argue, that has always been the most honest way to write about politics. The figure…

By Atiq Raja Great transformations do not erupt from the heavens in a blaze of glory. They creep in on tiptoe, disguised as the most ordinary of choices: slipping out of bed ten minutes earlier than usual, flipping open a book for a handful of pages, or trading the sofa’s embrace for a brisk stroll around the block. These tiny acts, so easily dismissed as trivial, form the quiet bedrock of profound change. In our era of viral success tales and Instagram-ready triumphs, we chase the spectacle—the Olympian clutching gold, the tycoon unveiling a billion-pound empire, the novelist atop the…

By Amir Muhammad Khan The recent unfair war between Iran and Israel, backed by the United States, has slowed the process of strengthening the world’s peace-loving powers and has further weakened the economies of developing countries. The conflict has rendered ineffective all those global systems and institutions built at the expense of billions of dollars, which have failed to resolve international disputes and have consequently lost their standing. With the “only me” policy now taking hold, it forces us to ask how peace-loving nations and developing economies around the world can ever hope to see success. Pakistan has now acquired…

BY Dr. Zafar Iqbal Is this a dilemma for American society’s collective intellect, or is a genuine moral crisis leading the United States towards complete destruction? Looking at the latest global situation, particularly in the context of events from the beginning of 2026 up to now, the scenario is such that an escalation trap has become a dangerous cycle where the very actions countries take for their defence or superiority are pushing them towards a larger, uncontrollable conflict. In the current global landscape, you can observe this process in numerous places, in the best, or rather worst, manner. A few…

By Dr. Zawwar Hussain In the grand intellectual history of the Muslim world, if there is one figure who can rightfully be described as a symbol of universal intellect, multidimensional scholarship and profound scientific insight, it is Abu Rayhan al-Biruni. This is no exaggeration. He stands prominently among the greatest minds in human history. He was not merely a scientist but a visionary thinker, a meticulous researcher, a pioneering geographer and an experimental scholar who, in an age devoid of modern instruments, laboratories or digital data, revolutionized multiple fields of knowledge through sheer brilliance, observation and experimentation. His contributions to…

By Shakeel Hussain History does not forget: it records, it remembers, and it warns. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, it was not merely a “discovery”; it marked the beginning of conquest, bloodshed and the erasure of entire civilizations. Indigenous populations were displaced, cultures were shattered, and a new world order was built on suffering. What was celebrated as expansion was, in reality, a foundation laid in injustice. The consequences of that era still echo today in the social and economic marginalization of native communities. For centuries, the language of power has attempted to justify such actions. Yet voices…

For weeks, a creeping dread has settled over the international order, the kind of thick, suffocating fear that precedes a thunderclap. It is the dread of being dragged, protesting, towards a precipice. In addition, in the latest, reckless escalation of hostilities between the United States, its indispensable ally Israel, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, we have seen that precipice brought into terrifyingly sharp focus. What is unfolding is not a spontaneous conflict born of ancient hatreds or a simple misunderstanding. It is a calculated, cynical, and profoundly inhuman conspiracy—hatched in the corridors of Washington and Tel Aviv—designed to plunge…