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For decades, Pakistan has occupied an uneasy yet unavoidable space in global geopolitics: strategically located, diplomatically significant, militarily consequential and economically under-realised. Successive governments have attempted to transform that geography into prosperity, but the country has often remained trapped between external dependency, domestic instability and regional rivalries. Now, however, Islamabad appears to be advancing a far more ambitious proposition — one that seeks not merely to secure foreign partnerships, but to reposition Pakistan as a pivotal energy and strategic corridor connecting competing global powers. At the centre of this emerging vision lies the country’s potentially vast offshore oil and gas…

By Professor Dr. Sheikh Akram Ali Politics, at its best, is often described as the art of translating collective aspirations into workable reality. Stripped of slogans and rivalry, it is supposed to serve a simple purpose: to organise society in a way that improves the lives of its people and gives direction to a shared future. Yet in practice it is rarely so clean. It moves between ideals and interests, between promises of welfare and the pressure of power. The tension between these two impulses has defined much of modern political history in South Asia, particularly in the long and…

By Dr Aliya Ahsan Kemal The question came recently in a clinic, posed with a mix of urgency and anxiety that is familiar to any paediatric cardiologist working in a country where festive traditions and complex medical realities often collide. “Doctor, how much Qurbani meat can my child eat this Eid?” The parents were referring to a child who had undergone stent placement for coarctation of the aorta and was still struggling with persistent hypertension. It is a question that will be echoed in thousands of households as Eid-ul-Adha approaches, particularly where congenital heart disease intersects with deeply rooted cultural…

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The explosion near Chaman Gate in Quetta has once again drawn the city into a familiar but deeply unsettling cycle of violence, grief and official reassurances that struggle to match the scale of human loss on the ground. At least 16 people have been killed, including three personnel of the Frontier Corps, and many more injured after what authorities describe as a powerful blast on or near a railway track. In the immediate aftermath, the scene was one of shattered glass, twisted metal and stunned silence, as emergency teams worked through debris in an area that, while long accustomed to…

By Amjad Qaimkhani In politics, symbolism often matters more than speeches. And in Houston, at the “Marka-e-Haq” ceremony jointly organised by the Pakistan Association of Greater Houston and the Consulate General of Pakistan in Houston, symbolism was everywhere. The participation of MQM-London’s Houston chapter was not merely another diaspora appearance at a patriotic gathering. It represented something far deeper: a calculated political repositioning by a movement historically defined by confrontation with Pakistan’s establishment, now publicly embracing the very institutions it once fiercely criticised. For decades, the relationship between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Pakistan’s security establishment has been among the…

By Sudhir Ahmad Afridi The PTI provincial government, and particularly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Suhail Afridi, appeared increasingly frustrated with the media in recent days. Speaking yesterday, he directed officials to file court cases against journalists accused of making baseless allegations, warning that failure to act within three days would result in action against the concerned officers themselves. Making allegations or taking action without evidence is unquestionably wrong, whether done by a journalist, a ruler, an official or an ordinary citizen. But if Chief Minister Afridi, who is both young and emotional, does not mind the question, can he explain…

By Khpalwak Mohmand The former FATA, now part of the tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is geographically mountainous, dry and dependent on seasonal rainfall. These areas do not have the facility of rivers or canal systems throughout the year, while during the rainy season the runoff flowing from the mountains carries away a huge amount of water. This water turns into raging streams within hours or days, and in the process a valuable natural resource is lost. At the same time, it often takes the form of destructive floods, damaging villages, crops, roads and houses. In such circumstances, the construction…

At a series of carefully staged ceremonies in Rawalpindi and Peshawar, Pakistan’s military leadership has once again placed the language of sacrifice and national endurance at the centre of its public messaging on counter-militancy, reinforcing a narrative that has become deeply embedded in the country’s security discourse over the past two decades. The events, marked by formal military honours and the public recognition of bereaved families, were designed not only as commemorations of service and loss but also as reaffirmations of an ongoing institutional doctrine: that the struggle against militancy is both existential and unfinished. Speaking at the General Headquarters…